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Ensign Russell is a fictional character portrayed by Debbie David in the TV series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
They appear in 62 episodes out of a total of 176 aired

Ensign Russell

by Debbie David

character

Episodes62

  • 9.2
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    Yesterday's Enterprise
    episode S3.E15 february 1990
    The Enterprise C enters the Enterprise D's time and space continuum, where they find Picard and crew in a constant state of war with the Klingons, and only Guinan knows it.
  • 7.4
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    Allegiance
    episode S3.E18 march 1990
    Picard is kidnapped and held with three different aliens and meanwhile replaced with a replica as impostor captain.
  • 7.2
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    Tin Man
    episode S3.E20 april 1990
    The Enterprise reaches out to an alien being, while dancing around with the Romulans, who want to attack it in an act of vengeance.
  • 6.9
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    Transfigurations
    episode S3.E25 june 1990
    The Enterprise finds a deserted planet where a ship has crashed, and, with it, the lone survivor with no memory, but extraordinary healing powers.
  • 9.3
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    The Best of Both Worlds: Part 1
    episode S3.E26 june 1990
    Responding to a distress call on one of the Federation's outer-most colonies, the Enterprise arrives...only to find a big hole in the ground where the town used to be, and discovers the Borg are behind the attack.
  • 9.2
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    The Best of Both Worlds: Part 2
    episode S4.E1 september 1990
    Having absorbed Captain Picard and his knowledge, the Borg head for Earth, leaving Riker and the Enterprise desperate for an unanticipated way to defeat them.
  • 8.3
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    Family
    episode S4.E2 september 1990
    After defeating the Borg, the crew of the Enterprise experiences shore leave in various ways. Captain Picard's return to his family's vineyard in France has some extraordinary repercussions.
  • 7.7
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    Brothers
    episode S4.E3 october 1990
    After an accident aboard the Enterprise leaves one of its children in grave danger, Data commandeers the Enterprise, driven to take the ship to an unknown origin, where an interesting figure awaits.
  • 6.7
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    Legacy
    episode S4.E6 october 1990
    The crew of the Enterprise enters into orbit around the home planet of their former crewmate, Tasha Yar, where they encounter her sister.
  • 7.7
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    Future Imperfect
    episode S4.E8 november 1990
    Riker awakens sixteen years after an away mission where he contracted a disease which destroyed his memory back to the point of infection - or so he's told.
  • 6
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    The Loss
    episode S4.E10 december 1990
    As an unknown force drags the Enterprise, Deanna Troi struggles with the loss of her empathic abilities.
  • 8.2
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    Clues
    episode S4.E14 february 1991
    Effects of passing through a wormhole give the Enterprise crew a sense that they were unconscious for more than the thirty seconds they've been led to believe.
  • 7
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    Galaxy's Child
    episode S4.E16 march 1991
    As Geordi La Forge finally meets the real Dr. Leah Brahms, a tragic first contact leaves the Enterprise with a gigantic galactic infant suckling the ship's energy.
  • 7.9
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    The Nth Degree
    episode S4.E19 march 1991
    When assigned to investigate an unknown probe, Lt. Barclay is hit by an energy surge, through a shuttlecraft's computer, and he receives an inexplicable boost of confidence and a vast increase in his knowledge.
  • 7.2
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    Qpid
    episode S4.E20 april 1991
    Aiming to get out of Jean-Luc's debt, Q forces Capt. Picard and his officers to live out the Legend of Robin Hood - with a past acquaintance as Maid Marian.
  • 8.4
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    The Drumhead
    episode S4.E21 april 1991
    A retired admiral boards the Enterprise in an effort to determine the actions aboard the ship surrounding an act of sabotage and possible treason.
  • 7.3
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    Half a Life
    episode S4.E22 may 1991
    Counselor Troi's mother visits the Enterprise and becomes infatuated with a man whose culture forces him into a suicidal ritual called "The Resolution."
  • 7.7
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    The Mind's Eye
    episode S4.E24 may 1991
    Geordi is brainwashed by the Romulans to start a war between the Klingons and the Federation
  • 8.4
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    Redemption
    episode S4.E26 june 1991
    Both Captain Picard and Lt. Worf must decide where their priorities lie as the Klingon Empire descends into a bitter civil war.
  • 8.2
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    Unification I
    episode S5.E7 november 1991
    Picard and Data follow Spock into Romulan space on a dangerous mission.
  • 8.3
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    Unification II
    episode S5.E8 november 1991
    On Romulus, Picard finds Spock, as well as an underground peace movement, a double agent, a bold ulterior motive against the Federation, and a familiar adversary.
  • 7.2
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    A Matter of Time
    episode S5.E9 november 1991
    Reaching Penthara IV after an asteroid wreaks havoc of catastrophic proportions, the Enterprise crew deals with trying to save the planet as well as deal with someone who claims to be a historian from the future.
  • 6.5
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    New Ground
    episode S5.E10 january 1992
    Geordi can barely curtail his enthusiasm at being able to test out a new theory of transportation, as Worf's mother boards the Enterprise with his son and news that Worf's Earthly parents can no longer care for him.
  • 6.6
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    Hero Worship
    episode S5.E11 january 1992
    Data rescues an orphaned boy named Timothy from a damaged ship. As a way to repress his own pain, Timothy begins to mimic Data's personality.
  • 6.2
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    Violations
    episode S5.E12 february 1992
    Transporting three Ullian mind-probing historians, the Enterprise crew is stymied when some of its members fall into a coma. Deanna Troi, the first crew member to come through it, cannot recall anything surrounding the incident.
  • 8.2
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    Conundrum
    episode S5.E14 february 1992
    When an approaching alien ship wipes their memory, the crew struggles to put back together what happened.
  • 7.2
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    Ethics
    episode S5.E16 february 1992
    After an accident that leaves him no longer able to walk, Worf asks Riker to help him commit suicide.
  • 6.8
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    The Outcast
    episode S5.E17 march 1992
    While aiding an androgynous race who lost a couple of members in an unmapped region of space, Riker falls for one of them, which can lead to trouble if detected, since the alien race does not endorse gender specificity.
  • 8.9
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    Cause and Effect
    episode S5.E18 march 1992
    The Enterprise gets caught in a time loop which always has one result: total destruction of the ship, itself.
  • 7.8
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    The First Duty
    episode S5.E19 march 1992
    Wesley Crusher's team has an accident at Starfleet Academy. Picard offers to help a Starfleet investigation as to what happened, and begins to suspect they are hiding something.
  • 6
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    Imaginary Friend
    episode S5.E22 may 1992
    A powerful, potentially dangerous energy life form, intent on scouting out the Enterprise, steps into the role of a girl's imaginary friend.
  • 8.3
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    The Next Phase
    episode S5.E24 may 1992
    A transporter malfunction, combined with a Romulan ship under stress and a damaged cloaking device, creates the illusion that Ensign Ro and Geordi are dead, but Geordi doesn't believe it to be so, and he acts accordingly.
  • 8.3
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    Time's Arrow
    episode S5.E26 june 1992
    Captain Picard and his archaeological curiosity are called upon by scientists from Earth when they find evidence to support beliefs that aliens had visited Earth in the late 1800s.
  • 8.2
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    Time's Arrow, Part II
    episode S6.E1 september 1992
    Captain Picard and crew follow Data back to the late 1800s to get him back, only to find the suspected alien visitors killing people of that time.
  • 8.5
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    Relics
    episode S6.E4 october 1992
    The Enterprise stumbles upon a Dyson sphere, with a ship crashed on the outer surface. An away team finds some systems still powered up and the chief engineer from the old Enterprise, Montgomery Scott, locked in the transporter cycle.
  • 7.5
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    Schisms
    episode S6.E5 october 1992
    Commander Riker's inability to fall asleep begins to show in other members of the crew in other forms, putting the Enterprise on the trail of a mystery.
  • 7.4
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    True Q
    episode S6.E6 october 1992
    When an honor student in the medical field is assigned to the Enterprise in an internship manner, she begins to demonstrate powers of the Q, prompting you-know-who to show up.
  • 7.2
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    Rascals
    episode S6.E7 october 1992
    An emergency beam out renders four crewmen down to childhood shortly before renegade Ferengi take over the Enterprise and offload the adults.
  • 7.4
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    A Fistful of Datas
    episode S6.E8 november 1992
    While the crew is experiencing some much needed down time, Worf and his son go on an Old West excursion in the holodeck, where they meet several versions of Data serving as the bad guy after an experiment in Engineering goes wrong.
  • 8.5
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    Ship in a Bottle
    episode S6.E12 january 1993
    Lt. Barclay mistakenly awakes Moriarty in the forgotten holodeck program, who then makes his demands clear and unforgettable.
  • 7.5
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    Birthright, Part I
    episode S6.E16 february 1993
    While visiting Deep Space 9, a Yridian tells Worf his father lives, and a discharge from an alien device puts Data in a dream state where he meets his own father.
  • 7.5
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    Lessons
    episode S6.E19 april 1993
    Picard falls for the new head of the stellar science services department, but has feelings of misgivings when he's forced to assign her to a dangerous mission.
  • 8.1
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    Frame of Mind
    episode S6.E21 may 1993
    Riker begins to question reality when he finds himself in an alien insane asylum and faces the prospect his life on the Enterprise has been a delusion.
  • 7
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    Suspicions
    episode S6.E22 may 1993
    Dr. Crusher puts her career on the line to prove a scientist's theoretical new shielding technology which may have cost him his life.
  • 7.5
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    Second Chances
    episode S6.E24 may 1993
    Riker's exact duplicate is discovered on Nervala IV. His first order of business: resume his relationship with Deanna. Second order: obey orders from his superior - himself.
  • 8.1
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    Descent
    episode S6.E26 june 1993
    After an encounter with the Borg, Data feels his first emotion when he gets angry with the Borg. Data then tries to find ways to recreate the situation in order to feel emotions again, whilst the Enterprise investigates the Borg activity, and are bewildered as to why they feel emotions too.
  • 7.7
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    Descent, Part II
    episode S7.E1 september 1993
    Before Lore can run risky experiments on Geordi, Troi and Picard, the three seek a way to re-boot Data's ethical program that Lore switched off to pull Data to his side.
  • 6.6
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    Liaisons
    episode S7.E2 september 1993
    On a diplomatic mission, Worf, Troi and the Captain deal with three aliens who explore foreign concepts with extreme, singular focus.
  • 6.2
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    Interface
    episode S7.E3 october 1993
    Geordi is distracted by the news of the possible loss of his mother while he uses a new remote probe technology to search for a downed spacecraft.
  • 7.5
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    Phantasms
    episode S7.E6 october 1993
    Data deals with his new ability to experience nightmares as the Enterprise deals with the installation of a new warp core that won't work as expected.
  • 6.4
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    Dark Page
    episode S7.E7 october 1993
    While establishing diplomatic relations with an alien race called the Cairn, Deanna's mother experiences a mental breakdown and falls into a coma, and it seems like Deanna is the only one who is able to help her, even if her mother doesn't want it.
  • 6.3
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    Force of Nature
    episode S7.E9 november 1993
    While searching for a missing Federation medical transport, the Enterprise is accosted by two scientists from a nearby planet who claim that cumulative exposure to warp energy is weakening the fabric of space.
  • 8.8
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    Parallels
    episode S7.E11 november 1993
    On his return from a bat'leth competition in the Klingon Empire, Worf finds himself shifting realities where events and details are in a constant state of flux and only he is aware of the changes.
  • 7
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    Homeward
    episode S7.E13 january 1994
    In an attempt to preserve a race of people on a planet being bombarded by storms that would kill them, Worf's foster brother violates the Prime Directive, leaving the Enterprise crew in a difficult position.
  • 8.7
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    Lower Decks
    episode S7.E15 february 1994
    A mission of the Enterprise is seen through the eyes of some junior officers who are up for promotions, as questions of duty and honor arise among some of them, such as a Bajoran whom Worf has designated to be promoted to operations.
  • 5.8
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    Masks
    episode S7.E17 february 1994
    Investigating a rogue comet that's been traveling throughout the universe for over 87 million years, Picard discovers alien beings within the comet, which infest the computer systems on the Enterprise, as well as Data.
  • 6.6
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    Eye of the Beholder
    episode S7.E18 february 1994
    As a young lieutenant aboard the Enterprise commits suicide, his shipmates deal with the loss and Deanna deals with feelings surrounding her as she and Worf begin to form a relationship.
  • 7
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    Genesis
    episode S7.E19 march 1994
    When a new torpedo guidance system malfunctions, Picard and Data go chasing after it into an asteroid field, while the crew is left behind to deal with their own strange behaviors.
  • 6.7
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    Firstborn
    episode S7.E21 april 1994
    In an effort to help him accept his Klingon heritage, Worf and his son, Alexander, attend an ancient Klingon ceremony.
  • 6.5
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    Bloodlines
    episode S7.E22 april 1994
    Picard races the Ferengi in an effort to track down the son he never knew he had.
  • 6.5
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    Emergence
    episode S7.E23 may 1994
    Strange images begin appearing throughout the ship's decks and holodecks. Data and the rest of the crew begin to investigate only to discover that the ship's computer itself is exhibiting the strange behavior as it begins to become self-aware.
  • 7.9
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    Preemptive Strike
    episode S7.E24 may 1994
    Following her return from Advanced Tactical Training, Bajoran Ro Laren is sent to infiltrate the Maquis and finds herself torn between her loyalty to Picard and Starfleet, and her sympathy with the Maquis fighting "the good fight".