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Episodes

Summary

Season 2 saw the departure of Dr. Beverly Crusher to head Starfleet Medical and her subsequent replacement by Dr. Katherine Pulaski. A number of stories focus on the development of Data, introducing him to his "grandfather," revealing his interest in Sherlock Holmes, determining his status as a living being, and revealing to him the moral implications of the Prime Directive. He also clashes several times with Dr. Pulaski, who does not initially regard him as a living being.

Commander William T. Riker is also a focus of this season, settling his differences with his estranged father, deciding to give up an offer for his own command so that he can remain on the USS Enterprise-D, becoming the first Starfleet officer to serve on a Klingon vessel, and nearly dying after becoming infected by a deadly alien parasite.

Lieutenant junior grade Worf becomes Chief of security and meets his mate, K'Ehleyr, and their son, Alexander, is conceived. Geordi La Forge is promoted to full Lieutenant and becomes Chief Engineer. Miles O'Brien is assigned as Transporter chief. Guinan comes on board the Enterprise-D to serve as bartender in Ten Forward, and significantly, Q introduces the crew of the Enterprise-D to the Borg, their most dangerous adversary yet.

Background information

Production

Cast and characters

Settings

The Enterprise bridge set was modified for the second season. The access panels in the port and starboard sections were changed from wood to beige fabric. These panels would then be changed to grey fabric on Season 3. In addition, all three of the command chairs were replaced with new versions. Picard's new chair had the panels on the armrests permanently opened, and the two additional small seats added on the sides of Riker's and Troi's chairs were removed, in favor of a transparent bench. The conn and ops station chairs are replaced with new swiveling chairs. Some of the aft computer terminals were reassigned. Worf's previous station "Emergency Manual Override" and "Environment" are now maintained under the names "Mission Operations" and "Engineering." [2]

bridge set was modified for the second season. The access panels in the port and starboard sections were changed from wood to beige fabric. These panels would then be changed to grey fabric on Season 3. In addition, all three of the command chairs were replaced with new versions. Picard's new chair had the panels on the armrests permanently opened, and the two additional small seats added on the sides of Riker's and Troi's chairs were removed, in favor of a transparent bench. The conn and ops station chairs are replaced with new swiveling chairs. Some of the aft computer terminals were reassigned. Worf's previous station "Emergency Manual Override" and "Environment" are now maintained under the names "Mission Operations" and "Engineering." A new sickbay set was constructed featuring portions of the set from the first season combined with a new intensive care ward, freeing up the portion of the set that also doubled as the observation lounge.

The Ten Forward lounge makes its debut this season, being the last TNG set designed by Herman Zimmerman before he left for Star Trek V . He was replaced by Richard James.

. He was replaced by Richard James. The observation lounge got two big viewscreens installed on the walls.

Credits

Cast

Crew

Creator

Line Producer

Producers

Co-Executive Producers

Executive Producer

Associate Producer

Executive Script Consultants

Story Editors

Creative Consultant

Tracy Tormé (credited as Tracy Torme on the first three episodes)

Casting by

Music by

Dennis McCarthy ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Schizoid Man" – "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man" – "Contagion", "Time Squared", "Pen Pals", "Samaritan Snare", "Manhunt", "Peak Performance")

Ron Jones ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona" – "Loud As A Whisper", A Matter Of Honor", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary", "Shades of Gray")

Main Title Theme by

Director of Photography

Production Designer

Editors

Unit Production Manager

First Assistant Directors

Les Landau ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data")

Merri D. Howard ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona" – "Loud As A Whisper", "A Matter Of Honor", "The Dauphin", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary", "Shades of Gray")

Robert J. Metoyer ("The Schizoid Man" – "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man", "Contagion", "Time Squared", "PenPals", "Samaritan Snare", "Manhunt", "Peak Performance")

Second Assistant Directors

Costume Designer

Starfleet Uniforms Created by

Original Set Design

Visual Effects Supervisors

Robert Legato ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Schizoid Man" – "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man", "Contagion", "Time Squared", "Pen Pals", "Samaritan Snare", "Peak Performance")

Dan Curry ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona" – "Loud As A Whisper", "A Matter Of Honor", "The Dauphin", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary", "Shades of Gray")

Visual Effects Coordinator

Post Production Supervisor

Set Decorator

Script Supervisor

Special Effects

Property Master

Joe Longo ("The Child", "Elementary, Dear Data", "The Schizoid Man", "Unnatural Selection", "The Measure Of A Man", "Contagion", "Time Squared", "Pen Pals", "Samaritan Snare", "Manhunt", "Peak Performance")

Alan Sims ("Where Silence Has Lease", "The Outrageous Okona", "Loud As A Whisper", "A Matter Of Honor", "The Dauphin", "The Royale", "The Icarus Factor", "Q Who", "Up The Long Ladder", "The Emissary", "Shades of Gray")

Make-Up Supervisor

Make-Up Artists

Hair Designer

Hair Stylists

Production Associate

Senior Illustrator

Scenic Artist

Set Designer

Construction Coordinator

Sound Mixer

Chief Lighting Technician

First Company Grip

Costume Supervisor

Key Costumer/Costumer

Music Editor

Supervising Sound Editor

Sound Editors

Post Production Sound by

Casting Executive

Production Coordinator

Casting Associate

Researcher

Computer Monitors by

Sony Corp. of America ("The Schizoid Man" – "The Measure Of A Man", "Contagion" – "Shades of Gray")

Editing Facilities

Lenses and Panaflex ® Cameras by

Special Visual Effects by

Industrial Light & Magic, A Division of Lucasfilm, Ltd.

Additional Motion Control Facilities

Video Optical Effects by

Special Video Compositing

"Entity" Animation Sequence by

Uncredited

Production companies

Central Casting – Extras Casting

Starlight Effects – Production company created the Borg cube ("Q Who")

Remastered crew

Jayme Wing – Digital Compositor ("The Emissary", "Peak Performance", "Shades of Gray")

See also



