Stardate: 42494.8 After finding the crew of the U.S.S. Lantree all dead of old age, the Enterprise heads to the ship's last location, the Darwin Genetic Research Station. They find the researchers there are suffering from the same aging diseases as on the Lantree. They tell the crew that they can't find the cause or a cure, and asks the Enterprise to evacuate two genetically engineered children from the station. The scientist state that the children have been in quarantine the whole time and could not have been infected.

Picard reluctantly agrees, but adds additional precautions by having them beamed up in stasis to a shuttle craft piloted by Dr. Pulaski. Nevertheless, shortly thereafter, Dr. Pulaski begins to show signs of having the aging disease too.

Now the crew must frantically fight to save Dr. Pulaski, before times runs out.

Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 2 Episodes...

• s02e01 - The Child
• s02e02 - Where Silence Has Lease
• s02e03 - Elementary, Dear Data
• s02e04 - The Outrageous Okona
• s02e05 - Loud as a Whisper
• s02e06 - The Schizoid Man
• s02e07 - Unnatural Selection
• s02e08 - A Matter of Honor
• s02e09 - The Measure of a Man
• s02e10 - The Dauphin
• s02e11 - Contagion
• s02e12 - The Royale
• s02e13 - Time Squared
• s02e14 - The Icarus Factor
• s02e15 - Pen Pals
• s02e16 - Q Who?
• s02e17 - Samaritan Snare
• s02e18 - Up the Long Ladder
• s02e19 - Manhunt
• s02e20 - The Emissary
• s02e21 - Peak Performance
• s02e22 - Shades of Gray

Star Trek: The Next Generation Show Summary

"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its continuing mission: To explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilisations, to boldly go where no one has gone before".

In this highly successful spin-off to the original Star Trek, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and the crew of the Galaxy-Class starship, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, set out to explore the final frontier. Along the way, they make first contact with myriad different species and solve reconflicts among those societies with whom they were already familiar, most notably the Klingon Empire.