STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION
Season 1, Episode 6

Where No One Has Gone Before

Series: The Next Generation - (1987-1994)
Season: 1
Episode #: 1.06
Production #: 40271-106
Original Airdate: 10/26/1987

Writer(s): Diane Duane and Michael Reaves
Director(s): Rob Bowman

Guest Stars
Stanley Kamel as Kosinski
Eric Menyuk as The Traveler
Herta Ware as Yvette Gessard-Picard
Biff Yeager as Lt. Cmdr. Argyle
Charles Dayton as a Crewmember
Victoria Dillard as an Ensign / Ballerina

Uncredited Guest Stars
James G. Becker as Ensign Youngblood
Byron Berline as a Command Division Officer
Darrell Burris as Operations Division Officer
Dexter Clay as a Security Officer
Jeffrey Deacon as a Command Division Officer
Emmy-Lou (Wild Boar) as the Klingon Targ
Nora Leonhardt as a Science Division Ensign
Dennis Madalone as a Science Division Crewman
Tim McCormack as Ensign Bennett
Lorine Mendell as Lt. Diana Giddings
Natalia Silverwood as a Civilian

Stardate: 41263.1

Synopsis

The U.S.S. Enterprise and crew travel to uncharted territory when a test on the ship's propulsion system backfires and blasts the starship more than a billion light years from their own galaxy.

The blame for the mishap is originally placed on Kosinski, an arrogant Starfleet propulsion expert. However, it is eventually discovered that the mental powers of the Traveler, a meek, humanoid alien (acting as the propulsion expert's assistant), was the true catalyst for this potential catastrophe.

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In an effort to discover who or what has tampered with their energy supplies, away teams from both the Ferengi and U.S.S. Enterprise starships beam down to investigate the desolate planet.

Complicating the dilemma of being lost in space, the physical and mental world are integrated in this galaxy - what the crew thinks becomes real. After seeing his crew as well as himself experience alternate realities, the Captain orders the passengers of the starship to control their thoughts.

To make matters worse, their only hope of returning to their own galaxy lies in the mental abilities of the alien, who is exhausted and dying. Captain Picard and crew soon discover they must focus their thoughts on the assistant's recovery in order to discover a way back to their galaxy.

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