Watch Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 4 Episode 9: Final Mission Online

	IMDB Rating: 6.8/10 from 831 votes
	Release: 1990 / Star Trek: The Next Generation / Season 4 / Episode 9
	Genre: Action \| Adventure \| Mystery
	Director: Corey Allen
	Stars: Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton
	Synopsis: After bringing the good news that Ensign Wesley Crusher has been accepted to Starfeet Academy, captain Picard decides to go ahead by shuttle with Wesley on a mission to appease troublesome salonite miners on Pentaurus 5, while Riker brings the Enterprise to the defenseless planet Gamelon-1, which believes to be under silent attack from a spaceship which causes immense radiation. The miner host pilot captain Dirgo's shuttle gets into trouble, having to land in a desert without working replicator or supplies, so Picard decides to walk to the nearest mountains for shelter, persisting even when sensor readings suggest possible life. Riker decides not to return for a search before dealing with the radiation source, which is found to be an abandoned barge and soon starts disintegrating while on tractor-beam to an asteroid... When Dirgo foolishly fires a phaser on a protective column, which mysteriously forms around a fountain at approach, the cave crushes on Picard, so Wesley's ingenuity is...