TNG Season 1

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Contents 1 Episodes 2 Summary 3 Background Information 4 Credits 4.1 Cast 4.2 Crew 4.3 See also

[edit] Episodes

Title	Episode	Prodno.	Stardate	Original Airdate
Encounter at Farpoint	1x01/02	?????-721	41153.7	1987-09-28
The Naked Now	1x03	40271-103	41209.2	1987-10-05
Code of Honor	1x04	40271-104	41235.25	1987-10-12
The Last Outpost	1x05	40271-107	41386.4	1987-10-19
Where No One Has Gone Before	1x06	40271-106	41263.1	1987-10-26
Lonely Among Us	1x07	40271-108	41249.3	1987-11-02
Justice	1x08	40271-109	41255.6	1987-11-09
The Battle	1x09	40271-110	41723.9	1987-11-16
Hide and Q	1x10	40271-111	41590.5	1987-11-23
Haven	1x11	40271-105	41294.5	1987-11-30
The Big Goodbye	1x12	40271-113	41997.7	1988-01-11
Datalore	1x13	40271-114	41242.4	1988-01-18
Angel One	1x14	40271-115	41636.9	1988-01-25
11001001	1x15	40271-116	41365.9	1988-02-01
Too Short a Season	1x16	40271-112	41309.5	1988-02-08
When The Bough Breaks	1x17	40271-118	41509.1	1988-02-15
Home Soil	1x18	40271-117	41463.9	1988-02-22
Coming of Age	1x19	40271-119	41461.2	1988-03-14
Heart of Glory	1x20	40271-120	41503.7	1988-03-21
The Arsenal of Freedom	1x21	40271-121	41798.2	1988-04-11
Symbiosis	1x22	40271-123	Unknown	1988-04-18
Skin of Evil	1x23	40271-122	41601.3	1988-04-25
We'll Always Have Paris	1x24	40271-124	41697.9	1988-05-02
Conspiracy	1x25	40271-125	41775.5	1988-05-09
The Neutral Zone	1x26	40271-126	41986.0	1988-05-16

[edit] Summary

Taking place 75 years after the era of James T. Kirk, Captain Jean-Luc Picard takes command of the Galaxy-class USS Enterprise-D with a hand-picked crew. They take on assignments from Starfleet as well as explore those strange new worlds, going where no one has gone before.

[edit] Background Information

• The Galaxy-class Enterprise was designed to hold families. In subsequent seasons and other Trek series, we learn that this does not pertain only for families who serve on Galaxy-class vessels, but other Federation vessels as well. (DS9: "Emissary"; TNG: "Hero Worship"; VOY: "The Raven", "Dark Frontier")

• No definite chief engineer is introduced, as a total of three officers – Logan, Argyle, and Sarah MacDougal – held the rank. Leland T. Lynch is also a senior officer in the department. Geordi La Forge does not become Chief Engineer until the second season.

• Lt. Cmdr. Data's "brother", Lore, who showed up as a nemesis in subsequent seasons, is introduced. (TNG: "Datalore")

• Lwaxana Troi, Deanna Troi’s mother, portrayed by Majel Barrett-Roddenberry, is introduced. (TNG: "Haven")

• The holodeck, where Picard plays out a holonovel of the pulp detective, Dixon Hill is introduced. Although, it is portrayed as something new on Federation vessels, the last time something similar was seen, was on a Constitution-class starship. (TAS: "The Practical Joker"; TNG: "The Big Goodbye")

• We are introduced to the alien race called the Ferengi, although it is hinted that the Federation was already aware of this race before the start of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The Ferengi turned up in subsequent seasons of TNG, as well as in other Trek series, but featured prominently in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

• Also introduced in the first season is the omnipotent being called "Q" who turned up in subsequent seasons and other Trek incarnations.

• The crew is affected by the same disease James T. Kirk's crew was afflicted with during the five-year mission of the original Enterprise. (TOS: "The Naked Time"; TNG: "The Naked Now")

• Susan Sackett, Gene Roddenberry's assistant at the time, portrays an extra dressed in a blue skant. (TNG: "The Neutral Zone")

• Lt. Worf becomes the first Klingon to join Starfleet, having grown up on the Khitomer outpost, where the beginnings of an alliance between the Klingon Empire and the Federation began. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) However, a few Klingons are not at all happy with the alliance. (TNG: "Heart of Glory")

Worf’s cranial features change throughout the series, as does his demeanor. Moreover, Worf became a regular in Deep Space Nine's fourth season.

• Lt. Natasha Yar had a short-lived stay on the Enterprise, as actress Denise Crosby becomes dissatisfied with the direction her character was going.

When Crosby opts to leave the show, Yar is killed, resulting in the death of a major character. (TNG: "Skin of Evil")

Denise Crosby returns in later seasons: first, as Natasha Yar in an alternate reality (TNG: "Yesterday's Enterprise"), then as the voice of Yar's daughter Sela, a Romulan operative brainwashing Geordi La Forge, (TNG: "The Mind's Eye"). She appears as Sela again in four other episodes (TNG: "Redemption", "Redemption II", "Unification I", "Unification II") and in the final TNG episode as Yar in yet another alternate reality. (TNG: "All Good Things...")

• Optional duty skirts, or "skants", are introduced for both male and female officers.

Natasha Yar and Deanna Troi are the only main characters who are ever seen wearing the skant. (TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint") The optional variant is seen primarily on background characters, most prominently Diana Giddings, portrayed by extra Lorine Mendell. (In season 2, Dr. Pulaski wears a long-sleeved variant of the skant with black slacks.)

The skants (as well as the jumpsuits) were created by Trek veteran William Ware Theiss, who also designed the costumes for TOS.

Deanna Troi appears in the skant once again for the series finale. (TNG: "All Good Things...")

• Fred Steiner, who composed music on TOS, scores for TNG. (TNG: "Code of Honor")

• Lush music, reminiscent of TOS, occurs over the course of Season one, and is changed to more subtle atmospheric music in the later seasons.

• An alien takeover of Starfleet by neural parasites occurs and is stopped, not to be followed up on in the series (or any other subsequent Trek series), even though it is hinted more aliens are on their way to Earth; however, some Trek novels make an attempt to clear up any questions. (TNG: "Conspiracy")

• The Romulans make a return in the final episode of Season one, after remaining quiet a number of years before the start of TNG. (TNG: "The Neutral Zone")

• Saucer separation of primary hull and secondary hull occurs a number of times. In the 23rd century, this action was designated for one-time emergencies. (TOS: "The Apple")

• Veteran Trek actors, Judson Scott and Merritt Butrick, appear in Season one. (TNG: "Symbiosis")

Judson Scott later appeared on Star Trek: Voyager. (VOY: "Message in a Bottle")

• TNG introduces the position of counselor on starships.

• Deanna Troi and First Officer Commander William T. Riker are characters reminiscent of Lt. Ilia and Will Decker of the aborted Star Trek: Phase II series and Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

• Armin Shimerman, known as the Ferengi barkeep Quark from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, portrays the Ferengi Letek as well as a Betazoid gift box. (TNG: "The Last Outpost", "Haven")

• When the series premiered in the UK on the BBC in 1990, the channel's airing order differed significantly from the original transmission order.

[edit] Credits

[edit] Cast

• Patrick Stewart as Jean-Luc Picard
• Jonathan Frakes as William Riker
• LeVar Burton as Geordi La Forge
• Michael Dorn as Worf
• Gates McFadden as Beverly Crusher
• Marina Sirtis as Deanna Troi
• Brent Spiner as Data
• Wil Wheaton as Wesley Crusher
• Denise Crosby as Natasha Yar ("Encounter at Farpoint" - "Skin of Evil")

[edit] Crew

Executive Producer

• Gene Roddenberry

Co-Executive Producers

• Rick Berman ("Coming of Age" - "The Neutral Zone")
• Maurice Hurley ("Coming of Age" - "The Neutral Zone")

Co-Producer

• Robert Lewin
• Herbert Wright ("Encounter at Farpoint" - "Skin of Evil")

Producers

• Edward K. Milkis ("Encounter at Farpoint")
• Maurice Hurley ("The Naked Now" - "Home Soil")

Supervising Producers

• Robert Justman ("Encounter at Farpoint" - "Home Soil")
• Rick Berman ("Encounter at Farpoint" - "Home Soil")

Associate Producers

• Peter Lauritson
• D.C. Fontana ("Encounter at Farpoint" - "Too Short a Season")

Consulting Producer

• Robert Justman ("Coming of Age" - 'The Neutral Zone")

Program Consultant

• David Gerrold ("Encounter at Farpoint" - "Haven")

Casting

• Junie Lowry

Music by

• Dennis McCarthy ("Encounter at Farpoint", "The Last Outpost", "Justice", "Hide and Q", "Haven", "The Big Goodbye", "Angel One", "Home Soil", "Coming of Age", "The Arsenal of Freedom", "Conspiracy")
• Ron Jones ("The Naked Now", "Where No One Has Gone Before", "Lonely Among Us", "The Battle", "11001001", "When The Bough Breaks", "Heart of Glory", "Skin of Evil", "We'll Always Have Paris", "The Neutral Zone")
• Fred Steiner ("Code of Honor")
• George Romanis ("Too Short a Season")

Main Title Theme by

• Alexander Courage
• Jerry Goldsmith

Director of Photography

• Edward R. Brown, ASC

Production Designer

• Herman Zimmerman

Editors

• Tom Benko, ACE
• J.P. Farrell
• Randy Roberts
• William Hoy
• David Berlatsky

Unit Production Managers

• David Livingston
• Kelly A. Manners
• Bruce A. Simon
• Sam Freedle

First Assistant Directors

• Les Landau
• Charles Washburn
• Babs Subramaniam
• Bruce A. Simon

Second Assistant Directors

• Babs Subramaniam
• Brenda Kalosh
• Bruce A. Simon
• Larry M. Davis
• Bob Kinwald
• Robert J. Metoyer
• Adele G. Simmons

Executive Costume Consultant

• William Ware Theiss

Art Director

• Sandy Veneziano

Assistant Art Director

• Gregory Pickrell

Visual Effects Coordinators

• Robert Legato
• Dan Curry

Post-Production Supervisor

• Brooke Breton

Set Decorator

• John M. Dwyer

Make-up Designed and Supervised by

• Michael Westmore

Make-up Artist

• Werner Keppler

Hair Designer

• Richard Sabre

Hair Stylists

• Carolyn Ferguson
• Joy Zapata

Production Assistant

• Susan Sackett

Consulting Senior Illustrator

• Andrew Probert

Illustrator

• Rick Sternbach

Scenic Artist

• Michael Okuda

Set Designers

• Richard McKenzie
• Louis Mann

Script Supervisor

• Cosmo Genovese

Special Effects

• Dick Brownfield

Costume Supervisors

• Janet Stout
• Elaine Scheiderman
• Ed Sunley

Camera Operator

• Lowell Peterson

Chief Lighting Technician

• Richard Cronn

First Company Grip

• Brian Mills

Property Masters

• Joe Longo
• Alan Sims

Music Editors

• John LaSalandra, SME (¨Encounter at Farpoint¨ - ¨Too Short a Season¨)
• Gerry Sackman (¨When the Bough Breaks¨ - ¨The Neutral Zone¨)

Supervising Sound Editor

• Bill Wistrom

Sound Editors

• James Wolvington
• Mace Matosian
• Wilson Dyer

Casting Executive

• Helen Mossler

Casting Associate

• Elisa Goodman

Production Coordinator

• Diane Overdiek

Construction Foremen

• Steven Monroe
• John Clayton

Construction Coordinator

• Al Smutko

Special Visual Effects

• Industrial Light and Magic

Video Optical Effects

• The Post Group

Special Video Compositing

• Composite Image Systems

Editing Facilities

• Unitel Video

Post-Production Sound

• Modern Sound

Stunt Coordinator

• Richard E. Butler ("Encounter at Farpoint") (uncredited)
• Glenn R. Wilder ("Code of Honor") (uncredited)
• Kerrie Cullen ("The Last Outpost") (uncredited)
• Chuck Courtney ("Datalore") (uncredited)

[edit] See also

• TNG Season 1 performers
• TNG Season 1 UK VHS
• TNG Season 1 DVD

First Season

Episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation

Next Season: TNG Season 2