Star Trek: The Next Generation - Encounter at Farpoint

A look back at the episode that launched a beloved crew.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - Encounter at Farpoint

The new U.S.S. Enterprise-D and its crew set out "to boldly go where no one has gone before." Their first mission of the Galaxy-class starship U.S.S. Enterprise-D is to explore the mystery surrounding the creation of the Farpoint Station located on planet Deneb IV. While trying to negotiate a friendly agreement for Starfleet to use this energy-powered base, Captain Picard and his crew also attempt to discover how the Bandi inhabitants of Deneb IV built the station.

Preview Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1".

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

The new U.S.S. Enterprise-D and its crew set out "to boldly go where no one has gone before."

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

"Captain's log, stardate 41153.7. Our destination is planet Deneb IV, beyond which lies the great unexplored mass of the galaxy. My orders are to examine Farpoint, a starbase built there by the inhabitants of that world."

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

Captain Picard asks Data if he agrees that Starfleet's orders are difficult.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

The crew gets introduced to the Q species.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

The crew gets introduced to the Q species.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

Worf commands the saucer section.

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Counselor Troi warns the Captain that this is not an illusion or a dream.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

The judge (Q) appears.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

Q gestures the crowd to sit and mentions that the prisoners will not be harmed...unless they've been found guilty that is.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

Q freezes Tasha as the crowd cheers.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

Captain Picard tells Q (the judge) that he will answer only specific charges.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

Commander Riker talks with Doctor Crusher and Wesley Crusher.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

Commander Riker conducts a manual docking.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Doctor Crusher examines Lieutenant La Forge's visor implants.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

Data talks with an Admiral as the Admiral explains to Data how to treat the ship.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 1"

Captain Picard and Commander Riker come face to face with Q.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Captain Picard introduces Counselor Troi and Commander Riker to one another before realizing they already knew eachother.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Counselor Troi senses pain, loneliness and despair, all without sensing the Groppler, or any of his people, but something very near to them.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Commander Riker looks for Data.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Captain Picard gives Wesley a look around the bridge and lets him try out the Captain's chair.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Captain Picard discusses his decision with Counselor Troi.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Q tells Captain Picard that his actions are typical and that "savage lifeforms never follow even their own rules."

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Commander Riker and Data find Groppler and ask what he's referring to when saying "Make it stop! You can drive it away!"

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Lieutenant La Forge and Worf prepare to come to Captain Picard's defense.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

The away team (Data, Tasha, Troi and Riker) prepares to energize.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Q takes a seat in the Captain's chair as Captain Picard explains to Q that his people are in trouble and he wants to help them.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

The away team and Zorn appear on the Bridge as soon as Captain Picard tells Q he'll do whatever he asks of him.

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Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Encounter at Farpoint, Pt 2"

Q listens as Captain Picard theorizes why Groppler was being punished.

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The crew looks to the viewer as the alien vessel transforms itself.

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The crew prepares to... Engage!

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