Episode
Star Trek: The Next Generation: Disaster
Overview
Stardate: 45156.1. A natural disaster leaves Troi in command of the Enterprise, Picard stuck in a turbo lift with three small children and Keiko O'Brien stuck in Ten-Forward giving birth with an anxious Worf.
Details
- Series
- Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Season
- Season 5
- Episode
- Episode 5
- Air date
- 1991-10-21
- Runtime
- 46 min
Episode context
Disaster is Episode 5 in Season 5 of Star Trek: The Next Generation. It aired on 1991-10-21. The runtime is 46 min.
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