Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes

Famous Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes. Order by the date each first aired. You place all 33 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode timeline works

The cards are standout episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation, each with a one-line hint about the story, and you put them in order by the date they first aired. One episode starts on the timeline with its air date shown. Read each new card and drop it into the gap where you think it belongs. When you're right, the date is revealed. When you're wrong, it still lands in its true spot and costs one of your three lives.

The show found its footing after a shaky start, and the deck leans heavily on its stronger later years, so the cards come thick and fast. Recurring threads help: the Borg, Q, Klingon politics and the android's search for humanity all build over time. Self-contained puzzle episodes with no ties to those bigger threads are the hardest to place.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in exact air dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 28 of the 33 cards you might be dealt, with 5 more in the deck. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Encounter at Farpoint Picard's crew is put on trial by the omnipotent Q
  • The Measure of a Man A hearing decides whether Data is property or a person
  • Q Who Q flings the ship across the galaxy to meet the Borg
  • Yesterday's Enterprise A time rift brings back a warship and a living Tasha Yar
  • The Offspring Data builds a daughter, the android Lal
  • Sarek An ailing Ambassador Sarek melds his emotions with Picard
  • The Best of Both Worlds, Part II Riker races to save an assimilated Picard
  • Family A shaken Picard returns home to his brother's vineyard
  • Brothers Data is summoned by his creator and meets brother Lore
  • Reunion Worf avenges K'Ehleyr amid Klingon power struggles
  • Data's Day A day aboard ship narrated by Data himself
  • The Wounded A rogue captain reignites war with the Cardassians
  • Redemption, Part I Worf is drawn into a Klingon civil war
  • Darmok Picard is stranded with an alien who speaks only in metaphor
  • Unification, Part I Picard seeks a vanished Spock on Romulus
  • Conundrum The amnesiac crew is tricked into fighting a war
  • Cause and Effect The ship is trapped in a deadly repeating time loop
  • I, Borg The crew adopts a lone injured Borg named Hugh
  • The Inner Light A probe makes Picard live a lifetime on a dead world
  • Time's Arrow, Part I Data's severed head is found in 19th-century San Francisco
  • Relics Scotty is rescued from decades in a transporter buffer
  • A Fistful of Datas A holodeck Western goes wrong with Data as every villain
  • Chain of Command, Part II A captured Picard is tortured by a Cardassian interrogator
  • Tapestry Q lets Picard relive and rewrite his reckless youth
  • Frame of Mind Riker cannot tell reality from an alien asylum
  • Parallels Worf slips between thousands of parallel realities
  • The Pegasus Riker's buried past exposes an illegal Federation cloak
  • Lower Decks The story follows four junior officers on a fatal mission

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