Troi, Picard, and Geordi are captured by the Borg and Data's brother Lore who is the leader of this group of renegade Borg. Lore plans, with Data's help to create a new race of beings to become masters of the universe.

The Enterprise is sent on a rescue mission to assist the scientific ship Raman which was investigating a gas giant. The crew uses a new technique of integrating a human nervous system with a probe to investigate in hazardous environments. Because of Geordi's implants, he is the best candidate for using the new device. While investigating on board the Raman, Geordi believes he sees his mother whose ship was lost 300 light years away.

Gambit (Part 1) - February 19 2370

The crew of the Enterprise search for their missing captain who was apparently killed in a bar on some remote planet. While investigating the captain's disappearance, the Enterprise encounters mercenaries who are stealing artifacts from archaeological digs. The mercenaries capture Riker leaving Data in command of the Enterprise now in pursuit of their missing comrade.

In the conclusion to the story line started in the previous episode, Picard and Riker, having become members of the mercenary crew, attempt to find out what artifact the mercenaries are searching for and keep them from destroying the Enterprise in the process.

Data begins experiencing problems with his dream program which first leads to strange nightmares, then to hallucinations and finally to attacking Troi.

Lwaxana Troi returns to the Enterprise as a language tutor for a delegation from a telepathic species known as the Cairn. However, she suffers a breakdown and Troi must enter her mother's mind to save her life.

The Enterprise is sent to Kesprytt, a world divided into two factions - the Kes and the Prytt. The Kes have applied to enter the Federation but the Prytt are xenophobic. Dr. Crusher and Captain Picard beam down to open discussion with the Kes but are kidnapped by the Prytt and find themselves able to read each other's minds by means of a surgical implant.

While searching for a missing vessel in the Hekarran Corridor, the Enterprise is boarded by two scientists who claim that warp drive is destroying their planet.

Data encounters a woman who claims to be Noonien Soong's wife, and Data's mother.

Worf returns to the Enterprise from a Klingon competition only to find that reality is changing around him and he's the only one who realizes it.

Riker's first commander, now an admiral, joins the Enterprise for a search mission to find the Pegasus. The Pegasus was the ship commanded by Adm. Pressman on which the crew mutinied shortly before Pressman, aided by a young Ensign Riker and some others, escaped. Their mission now is to find the ship, and the secret it carries, before the Romulans find it or the secret that Adm. Pressman has hidden onboard.

Worf's brother in law saves the population of a village on a planet whose atmosphere becomes unstable, and so violates the prime directive.

Dr. Crusher's grandmother dies and at the funeral, she spots a handsome young man who was apparently her grandmother's lover...and a ghost.

A unique look at how the Enterprise crew trains, rates and promotes Ensigns on board ship. And how the ensigns deal with their situation, no matter how tough their commanding officers' demands are.

Data is sent to a technology poor planet to recover some radioactive material that fell onto the planet. Although he was not supposed to encounter any of the natives (and thereby not violate the Prime Directive) he wanders into the nearest village suffering from amnesia. Meanwhile, Deanna Troi decides she wants to take the necessary tests to achieve promotion to command level.

The Enterprise finds a data archive from a long-dead culture inside a comet. While probing the comet, the Enterprise is assaulted by a sensor echo and the ship begins slowly transforming into an alien city. Meanwhile Data becomes inflicted with multiple personalities - apparently entities from the ancient civilization.

Lt. Kwan's suicide on board the Enterprise sparks some interesting results when Troi and Worf begin to investigate.

The crew of the Enterprise devolve into primitive creatures due to an injection which Dr. Crusher gives to Lt. Barclay.

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Worf's son Alexander doesn't want to undergo a Klingon ritual to become a Klingon warrior. Meanwhile, a mysterious Klingon helps Worf when he is attacked when he visits a Klingon festival.

The Ferengi Bok escapes from his imprisonment and kidnaps Picard's son.

Strange things happen as the Enterprise creates a new, intelligent life form and takes control of itself

Ro Laren returns on the Enterprise after a training at Starfleet Tactical. She is chosen to infiltrate the Maquis, a group of people who attack the Cardassians. Here, she must choose between her loyalty to Starfleet and Picard and her feelings towards the Maquis.

Picard is thrown between 3 time periods: when he first arrives on the Enterprise, the current en the future, where he is an old man. Then, an outburst of anti-time appears in the Romulan neutral zone. Meanwhile, Picard finds that Q is responsible for his time shifts.

Now, Picard must find a way to stop the eruption en sends in all three time periods the Enterprise in the eruption. The enterprises explode, but the anti-time eruption disappears and things get back to normal.

This is the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation.