Star Trek: The Next Generation: Conspiracy

"Conspiracy" is the twenty-fourth episode of season one of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the twenty-third episode of the series overall (if one counts the two-part pilot episode "Encounter at Farpoint" as two episodes). Combining the episode count of all Star Trek-related TV shows to date, it is the 127th episode of the entire franchise. This episode was directed by Joseph L. Scanlan and written by Joseph Stefano and Hannah Louise Shearer based on a story treatment developed by Stefano. It first aired in syndication in the United States on May 7th, 1988.