After Riker's unsuccessful attempt to destroy the Borg in The Best of Both Worlds (part I) using the main deflector dish, the Enterprise is left dead in the water. The Borg continues towards Earth and are intercepted by the Federation fleet at Wolf 359. Repairs completed, the Enterprise gives chase and arrives at Wolf 359 to discover the entire Federation fleet destroyed and the Borg still en route to Earth. Can Riker and Data devise a plan to defeat the Borg when the whole fleet failed?

While the Enterprise undergoes repairs on Earth, crew members reunite with family as Picard comes face to face with his jealous brother Robert. Meanwhile Worf's human foster parents visit the Enterprise to see him.

Data commandeers the Enterprise to take him home to his elderly creator, Noonian Soon, after he receives a sub-conscious summons. Once there he clashes with his evil brother Lore.

Picard risks war when he refuses to return a human boy to the alien father who raised him, and may have abused him.

Wesley's experiment with warp fields results in his mother getting caught in a universe where the crew is disappearing one by one. The crew send off a plea for help to the home world of the Traveller but can he arrive in time to show Wesley the way to save her?

A rescue mission leads the crew to the birthplace of their late comrade Tasha Yar, where they encounter her sister, Ishara. When she tricks them into removing a implanted warning device that has kept the balance in the planet's civil war for years, the crew are forced to examine their motives.

Picard is chosen to mediate a Klingon power struggle by the poisoned Emperor of the Klingon Empire (K'Empec) who is dying. Meantime Worf confronts Duras, who disgraced him and has just killed his mate K'Ehleyr. Worf also discovers that he has a son, Alexander.

After an Away Team mission fails, Riker awakens in sickbay to discover sixteen years have passed and he now commands the Enterprise. Slowly he becomes convinced it is an illusion, but what is reality and what is make believe?

After being accepted by Starfleet Academy, Wesley accompanies Picard on a final mission, only to find himself struggling to keep the captain alive when the shuttlecraft crashes on a barren desert world.

The Enterprise becomes trapped in a mysterious void, and at the same time Troi looses her empathic abilities. Troi becomes convinced that she can no longer do her job as Counsellor and resigns.

The impending wedding of his friend Chief O'Brien and his fiancée Keiko compounds Data's confusion about the nuances of human feelings. In the meantime, the Enterprise plays host to a Vulcan ambassador, T'Pel, who is not all she seems.

Picard must stop a renegade Federation starship which is making unprovoked attacks on the Cardassians. (This is where we meet the Cardassians for the first time.)

Picard fights to save a terrorised planet from a powerful woman who claims to be the devil, and claims the obedience of an entire race in slavery as promised in an ancient myth of a deal with the Devil.

The Enterprise travels through a worm hole in which most of the crew is knocked out for what is apparently 30 seconds. However, there are signs that say that they were out for much longer. Then the crew are shocked to discover that Data is lying to them.

When a survey as part of a first contact mission goes wrong, Riker is seriously injured and taken to an alien hospital. His life is put in jeopardy when they suspect he is an alien. Forced to accelerate the time scale of the mission, Picard and Troi make contact with a leading scientist and try to convince her they mean no harm. They tell her of Riker's disappearance, but she cautions them not to mention it when they meet the planet's leader and his military advisor.

The Enterprise as a parent? Seems so, when it accidentally kills a space-borne creature whose child comes to believe NCC-1701-D is its mother. In this episode, Geordi finally meets Dr Leah Brahms for real (see the episode Booby Trap for an explanation) and has to face up to the fact that she's never met him, doesn't love him, and that it's altogether more difficult with a real woman than a hologram!

After finding a devastated ship, the Enterprise too becomes trapped in the same rift in space, and the crew is plagued by unexplained paranoia and hallucinations.

After a string of Geordi's former colleagues go missing, Dr. Crusher races against time to locate a parasite that threatens to transform Geordi into an alien creature.

Reg Barclay is endowed with super human intelligence by an alien probe and threatens the safety of the Enterprise.

The mischievous ``Q'' turns Picard into Robin Hood, and several of the others into his Merry Men, and sends him on a quest designed to force him to prove his love for an old flame, Vash (see: Captain's Holiday).

After an unexplained explosion appears to be sabotage, a search for a spy aboard the Enterprise turns into a witch hunt in which no one is safe - not even Captain Picard!

Picard risks war when he offers asylum to a visiting scientist who wishes to escape the ritual suicide mandated by his society.

Dr Crusher falls in love with an alien ambassador from a race known as the Trill who the Enterprise are transporting to a peace conference. When his shuttlecraft is attacked and he is fatally injured, they discover that the Trill are a twinned life form consisting of a humanoid host body and a worm like symboynt. With the new Trill host still 40 hours away, Riker agrees to be a temporary host. Beverly must decide whether she can make the leap and accept the new host as the same person she loved before. (This is where we meet The Trill, who become more important in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine because one of the crew, Lt Jadzia Dax, is a trill!)

Romulan forces kidnap Geordi and turn him into a killing machine in order to sour relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire.

Data experiments with love by pursuing a romantic relationship with a fellow crew member. In the meantime, mysterious holes in the fabric of space threaten the Enterprise.

As civil war threatens the Klingon Empire, Worf's loyalties are torn between the Federation and his people, while Picard must decide who is to be the new leader of the Klingon High Council now K'Empec is dead.