Pen Pals (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Pen Pals (Star Trek: The Next Generation) "Pen Pals" is the 15th episode of the of the American science fiction television series "", the 41st episode overall, first broadcast on May 1, 1989. The series follows the adventures of the crew of the Federation starship "Enterprise" commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard. In this episode, Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher learns to manage a science team, and in the primary plot, focusing on Starfleet's Prime Directive, Data helps a young girl on a troubled planet. As the "Enterprise" surveys an area of unexplored planets with unusually short life spans due to severe
Relics (Star Trek: The Next Generation) Relics (Star Trek: The Next Generation) "Relics" is the 130th episode of the syndicated American science fiction television series "", the fourth episode of the . Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Federation starship USS "Enterprise"-D. In this episode, while investigating the 75-year-old wreck of a Federation transport vessel, the "Enterprise" crew discovers the former Chief Engineer of Captain James T. Kirk's "Enterprise", Montgomery Scott (James Doohan), alive in a transporter buffer. The starship "Enterprise", responding to a distress call, drops out of warp to discover a nearby Dyson sphere. They trace the distress