Episode:105
The Last Outpost

Jack's Rating:

An unknown force immobilizes the Enterprise during the Federation's first encounter with a new alien threat, the Ferengi.

Features: The Ferengi
Stardate: 41386.4
Air Date: 10/19/87
Director: Richard Colla

Jack's Review
This is a strange episode. We do get our first look at the Ferengi here but the over the top way in which the director had the actors play them turned them into the comic relief species of Star Trek. There are quite a few fun parts to this episode, however.

Episode:109
The Battle

Jack's Rating:

A Ferengi captain returns the abandoned Stargazer to its former captain, Jean-Luc Picard. Picard, who experiences severe headaches, begins to relive the "Battle of Maxia" in which he lost the ship.

Features: The Ferengi
Stardate: 41723.9
Air Date: 11/16/87
Director: Rob Bowman

Jack's Review
Admittedly they didn't have the Ferengi worked out when this episode aired, but we can see a glimpse of where they would eventually end up as a Star Trek species. I do enjoy this one a great deal. It's a well told story and very well acted.

Episode:221
Peak Performance

Jack's Rating:

The Enterprise and USS Hathaway face off in simulated combat maneuvers. Data fails to beat a humanoid at a game of Strategema.

Features: The Ferengi
Stardate: 42923.4
Air Date: 07/10/89
Director: Robert Scheerer

Jack's Review
This one is right up at the top of the episodes of TNG that I absolutely love. It contains perhaps the single best Picard quote in the entire series, as well as one of the best endings. The upbeat end on a freeze-frame is just perfect classic TV.

Episode:308
The Price

Jack's Rating:

Troi falls in love with a charismatic negotiator who vies for rights to a wormhole. But several different groups are after the wormhole as it may be the only known stable wormhole in existence.

Features: The Ferengi
Stardate: 43385.6
Air Date: 11/13/89
Director: Robert Scheerer

Episode:319
Captain's Holiday

Jack's Rating:

Picard is convinced to take some much needed shore leave, but gets wrapped up in a woman's treasure hunt.

Features: Time Travel The Ferengi
Stardate: 43745.2
Air Date: 04/02/90
Director: Chip Chalmers

Jack's Review
I have watched this episode countless times and I never realized that is basically a Dixon Hill mystery. Totally film noir. Probably why I enjoy it so much.

Episode:324
Menage a  Troi

Jack's Rating:

The Ferengi kidnap Deanna, her mother and Riker.

Features: The Ferengi
Stardate: 43930.7
Air Date: 05/28/90
Director: Robert Legato

Episode:521
The Perfect Mate

Jack's Rating:

Picard forces himself to resist the charms of a female empathic metamorph, who is sent to marry an alien leader as a peace offering.

Features: The Ferengi
Stardate: 45761.3
Air Date: 04/27/92
Director: Cliff Bole

Episode:607
Rascals

Jack's Rating:

A transporter malfunction turns Picard, Keiko, Ro and Guinan into children, who become the ship's only hope when they are left aboard while the adult crew are forced to perform dangerous labor by Ferengi pirates.

Features: The Ferengi
Stardate: 46235.7
Air Date: 11/02/92
Director: Adam Nimoy

Episode:622
Suspicions

Jack's Rating:

Dr. Crusher risks her career to solve the murder of Ferengi scientist Dr. Reyga and vindicate his research.

Features: The Klingons The Ferengi
Stardate: 46830.1
Air Date: 05/10/93
Director: Cliff Bole

Episode:709
Force of Nature

Jack's Rating:

A pair of scientists show that warp drives are harming the fabric of space.

Features: The Ferengi
Stardate: 47310.2
Air Date: 11/15/93
Director: Robert Lederman