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<TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Encounter at Farpoint'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 101 and 102)<BR>by D. C. Fontana<BR>and Gene Roddenberry</TD>
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Having taken command of his new starship, the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I>, Captain Jean-Luc Picard and his crew are assigned to negotiate a friendly agreement with the Bandi, inhabitants of the planet Deneb IV, whose energy-powered Farpoint station appears to be an ideal location for Starfleet to use; intriguingly, the station seems to have almost magical qualities, and one’s every wish quickly becomes a reality. But while en route to Farpoint the <I>Enterprise</I> crew encounters Q, a mysterious and arrogant being with seemingly omnipotent powers. After transporting Picard, Councelor Deanna Troi and Security Officer Tasha Yar into a bizarre courtroom scene, Q denounces the human race as barbarians and then challenges the <I> Enterprise</I> crew to prove otherwise - if Picard is not persuasive in the defence of his race, then he and his crew will be sentenced to death. Picard manages to convince Q that his forthcoming mission at Farpoint will be the perfect opportunity to prove that humans, unlike Q, have learned not to judge and prosecute that which they do not understand; Q accepts the captain’s proposal, allowing him just twenty-four hours to solve the mystery of the station. Arriving at Farpoint, Picard meets his new First Officer, Commander William Riker; his Science Officer, an android named Data; and Doctor Beverly Crusher, together with her brilliant but precocious son, Wesley. Picard and his officers begin their investigation of the station, but they soon discover that Farpoint conceals a secret that they could never have imagined… 

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Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Lieutenant Geordi La Forge</B>), Denise Crosby (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Natasha ‘Tasha’ Yar</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Lieutenant Worf</B>), Gates McFadden (<B>Doctor Beverly Crusher</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Wil Wheaton (<B>Wesley Crusher</B>), John de Lancie (<B>Q</B>), Michael Bell (<B>Bandi Groppler - Zorn</B>), DeForest Kelley (<B>Doctor Leonard McCoy</B>), Colm Meaney (<B>Battle Bridge Conn</B>), Cary-Hiroyuki (<B>Mandarin Bailiff</B>), Timothy Dang (<B>Main Bridge Security</B>), David Erskine (<B>Bandi Shopkeeper</B>), Evelyn Guerrero (<B>Young Female Ensign</B>), Chuck Hicks (<B>Military Officer</B>), Jimmy Ortega (<B>Torres</B>)

<BR><BR><B>Directed by Corey Allen
<BR>Produced by Maurice Hurley
<BR>Executive Producer Gene Roddenberry 
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<BR>28th September, 1987

<BR><BR><B>Notes:</B>
<BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Natasha ‘Tasha’ Yar, Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi, Lieutenant Commander Data, Wesley Crusher , Miles O’Brien and Doctor Leonard McCoy
<BR><BR*This is a double-length episode

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