STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Season 1, Episode 2
Season 1, Episode 2
Encounter at Farpoint, Part II
Series: The Next Generation - (1987-1994)Season: 1
Episode #: 1.02
Production #: 102/721
Original Airdate: 09/28/1987
Writer(s): D. C. Fontana and Gene Roddenberry
Director(s): Corey Allen
Guest Stars
John de Lancie as Q
Michael Bell as Zorn
DeForest Kelley as Admiral Leonard McCoy
Colm Meaney as Chief Miles O'Brien
Cary-Hiroyuki as Mandarin Bailiff
Timothy Dang as Main Bridge Security
David Erskine as Bandi Shopkeeper
Evelyn Guerrero as Young Female Ensign
Chuck Hicks as Military Officer
Jimmy Ortega as Lt. Torres
Uncredited Guest Stars
Michael Bailous as an Operations Officer
James G. Becker as Ensign Youngblood
Robert Vernon Biggs as a Post Atomic Trial Spectator
Darrell Burris as an Operations Division Officer
Steve Casavant as Lt. Longo
Steve Casavant as a Post Atomic Trial Spectator
Dexter Clay as a Security Officer
Jeffrey Deacon as a Command Division Officer
Susan Duchow as an Operations Division Officer
Roy Fussell as a 21st Century Soldier
Kelly Gallant as a Post Atomic Trial Spectator
Joe Gieb as a Post Atomic Horror Bell Ringer
John Johnson as a 21st Century Soldier
Nora Leonhardt as a Science Division Ensign
David B. Levinson as a Post Atomic Trial Spectator
Tim McCormack as Ensign Bennett
Lorine Mendell as Lt. Diana Giddings
Andrew Probert as a Post Atomic Trial Spectator
Angelo Rossitto as a Post Atomic Trial Spectator
Richard Sarstedt as a Command Division Officer
Marty Valinsky as 21st Century Soldier
Stardate: 41153.7
Synopsis
Picard convinces Q that the upcoming mission at Farpoint will be the perfect opportunity to prove his point. Q accepts Captain Picard's proposal but gives him only 24 hours and a reminder that failing this test will mean death for the Enterprise crew.
While docked at Farpoint, Picard is introduced to his new first officer, Commander Riker, and the rest of his crew. As they begin to investigate the station, they are startled by the seemingly magical qualities of the planet where one's wish becomes reality.![]()
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While the away team searches through tunnels beneath the Farpoint station, an unidentified ship begins firing on the old Bandi city, causing heavy damage and numerous casualties. As it turns out, the ship is a living alien being who is attacking the city because the people of Deneb IV have captured its mate.
Not only have the Bandi been holding the being against its will, but they have used its energy source, which converts energy into matter, to create the Farpoint station and its magical qualities.
After assisting the reunion of the estranged aliens, the crew learns that it has passed Q's test. Relieved, they head off for their next mission.
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