Geordi and Ro are killed in a transporter accident as the Enterprise tries to help a stranded Romulan vessel. But are they really dead? They’re both still around but no one can see them. Ro thinks she’s a ghost but Geordi thinks it would be weird to be dead and have a VISOR and clothes. However, he decides to keep them on anyway. Due to some weird Romulan science, it turns out they’re actually cloaked, but a new kind which means they can pass through matter. Meanwhile the Romulans are plotting to blow up the Enterprise for some reason, and only the ghost people know. And it’ll blow as soon as they go to warp. Can they get solidified again before the Enterprise gets there? Or at least before Riker has to deliver a eulogy?

• • ‘Darmok’
  • ‘Ensign Ro’
  • ‘Silicon Avatar’
  • ‘Disaster’
  • ‘The Game’
  • ‘Unification’
  • ‘A Matter of Time’
  • ‘New Ground’
  • ‘Hero Worship’
  • ‘Violations’
  • ‘The Masterpiece Society’
  • ‘Conundrum’
  • ‘Power Play’
  • ‘Ethics’
  • ‘The Outcast’
  • ‘The First Duty’
  • ‘Cost of Living’
  • ‘The Perfect Mate’
  • ‘Imaginary Friend’
  • ‘I, Borg’

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While scouting a system for colonisation, the Enterprise here’s a distress call. Upon answering, they find a lone surviving Borg, Third of Five. Against protests, Crusher insists on trying to help him, eventually bringing him on board the Enterprise. Troi thinks Picard may experience trauma with a Borg on board but he insists that he’s fine, but decides to use the Borg to send a virus into the collective and wipe them out for good. However, while studying him, Geordi bonds with him, even naming him Hugh, and he begins to show signs of becoming an individual and understanding life beyond being a Borg. Even established Borg hater Guinan starts to think he’s a fairly decent dude. Can they really send him back to his demise? Or even worse, to return in a disappointing season six episode?

• • ‘Darmok’
  • ‘Ensign Ro’
  • ‘Silicon Avatar’
  • ‘Disaster’
  • ‘The Game’
  • ‘Unification’
  • ‘A Matter of Time’
  • ‘New Ground’
  • ‘Hero Worship’
  • ‘Violations’
  • ‘The Masterpiece Society’
  • ‘Conundrum’
  • ‘Power Play’
  • ‘Ethics’
  • ‘The Outcast’
  • ‘The First Duty’
  • ‘Cost of Living’
  • ‘The Perfect Mate’
  • ‘Imaginary Friend’

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The Enterprise is exploring a nebula when it runs into a plot from an 80s children’s show.

Starfleet brat Clara has trouble making friends as her father moves around so much so she mostly plays with her imaginary friend Isabella. But when a glowy ball from the nebula comes on board, Isabella suddenly becomes real and makes Clara go to places she doesn’t want to go and starts harassing anyone who gets in her way. Troi’s hot chocolate gets horribly spilled, so she has some chocolate cake as comfort and contemplates her depth of character. Anyway, the nebula starts to damage the Enterprise and the creatures suck the energy from it because they see them as a threat or something, until Picard has a heartfelt conversation with the child and sorts out the misunderstanding.

• • ‘Darmok’
  • ‘Ensign Ro’
  • ‘Silicon Avatar’
  • ‘Disaster’
  • ‘The Game’
  • ‘Unification’
  • ‘A Matter of Time’
  • ‘New Ground’
  • ‘Hero Worship’
  • ‘Violations’
  • ‘The Masterpiece Society’
  • ‘Conundrum’
  • ‘Power Play’
  • ‘Ethics’
  • ‘The Outcast’
  • ‘The First Duty’
  • ‘Cost of Living’
  • ‘The Perfect Mate’

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