Top 10 Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation

10. Q Who

Q, an omnipotent being that enjoys toying with the Enterprise crew, transports the ship all the way to the Delta Quadrant, a previously unexplored region of the galaxy. Two years away at maximum warp from the nearest Federation Starbase, Picard decides to take advantage of the situation and explore the sector. His curiosity however brings him up against an enemy more powerful than anything they have faced before, the Borg! A collective hive mind of cybernetic organisms that wishes to assimilate all life and my favorite Star Trek villains.





9. Unification

Now Star Trek: The Next Generation is my favorite Star Trek TV series but Spock is my favorite character. So then, you can imagine my joy when Spock appeared in this double episode of Next Generation. Spock is suspected of betraying the Federation as he is seen on the planet Romulus, at the heart of the Romulan Empire. Captain Picard and Data go on an undercover mission to figure out what is really going on. The episode brings my favorite characters, Data, Picard and Spock together in one place. It even ends with a mind meld between Picard and Spock!

8. Measure of a Man

Is Data simply a machine? Or can he be classified as a sentient life form? In this episode Picard and Data must prove that he is a life form or he will be classified as property of Starfleet and be deconstructed. This episode tackles the difficult question of what defines life and what is it to be alive? This episode was also said to be Brent Spiners favorite.







7. I, Borg

The Enterprise finds a Borg survivor of a ship crash known as 'Third of Five'. The crew plan to implement a virus into him and send him back to the Borg collective were the virus will hopefully destroy them. However during his stay on the Enterprise Third of Five begins to show signs of independence due to him being separated from the collective. He is given the name Hugh by Geordi La Forge and later classifies Geordi as his friend. When he begins to say 'I' instead of 'we' and seems unwilling to assimilate, Picard must reconsider his decision to use him as a weapon of mass destruction.






6. Timescape 

Picard, Troi, La Forge and Data return on a shuttlepod to find the Enterprise frozen in time, in the middle of a Romulan attack. But all is not as it seems as they attempt to save the Enterprise from the Romulans and a warp core breach that threatens to destroy the ship. 
  
  





 5. The inner light 

When the Enterprise encouters an alien probe Picard is rendered unconscious. He wakes up on a planet and finds he has a wife and that his experiences on the Enterprise were all just a dream. He lives and grows old on the planet, teaching himself to play a flute and raising a family. Eventually he awakes on the Enterprise and finds that the alien probe was built by a man on a dying world to share his experiences. Picard lived decades of the mans life in twenty minutes while he was unconscious. The episode ends with Picard alone in his quarters with only a flute to remind him of his experiences.

4. All Good Things...

... must end, even Star Trek: The Next Generation. This legendary series finale serves as a satisfying end to the greatest TV series of all time. Picard finds himself jumping between the present, the past and the future. The episode ends with Picard joining poker night for the first time, saying that he should have done so a long time ago.









3. Chain of Command 

Star Trek fans will know it simply from 'there are four lights!'. Captain Picard is captured by Cardassians (not Kardassians) while on a secret mission for the Federation. Picard is brutally tortured by the Cardassians, who are looking for information from him. His torturer use a technique were a mans will is broken to the point  were he believes everything he is told, even when it is clearly wrong. He is told that there are five lights, even when there are clearly four, and every time he disagrees he is punished. Very emotional stuff.

2. Yesterdays Enterprise

Of course it was going to be on the list. The Enterprise-D encounters a temperol anomaly and the Utopia Star Trek future that we know and love is altered when the Enterprise-C emerges from the past. In this warped Star Trek timeline the Federation is at war with the Klingon empire and only Guinan remains aware of the previous timeline. Two Enterprises, an alternative timeline, a crew member back from the dead, a temperol anomaly and Klingons, what more do you want?







1. Best of Both Worlds

Every true Star Trek fan has seen this. This two part episode was not only the best episode of The Next Generation but it also had the best cliffhanger in TV history. Captain Picard is captured by the Borg and assimilated. He becomes Locutus of Borg and begins an invasion of Alpha Quadrant, sector 001, otherwise known as Earth!

"I am Locutus of Borg. Resistance is futile. Your life as it has been is over. From this time forward you will service us"