Season 1 Episode 1
Episode: "Encounter at Farpoint"

Whilst on its voyage to planet Deneb IV, the Enterprise is obstructed by an immense grid. The encounter is swiftly followed by contact with a member of an omnimpotent alien race that goes by the name Q. The Q have judged humanity's expansion into the galaxy has proceeded at far too great a pace but insist on using examples from humanity's past to justify arguments supporting that the species has failed to reached anything like civilisation or enlightenment and that they should therefore retreat back to Earth. Captain Picard of course protests and offers a counterproposal, that the Q observe the behaviour of the Enterprise crew throughout their mission to Deneb IV as a means of seeing first hand just how far present-day humans have come.

With the arrival of an apparent hostile vessel threatening the population of Deneb IV, Picard is placed in the awkward position of having to prepare the Enterprise for a ship to ship conflict. The moment that Picard utters the words "lock phasers..." however, Q appears on the bridge to mock Picard for being uncivilised in his conduct.

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