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Introduction Enterprise
Attack Azati
Prime Sphere
Bashing Saving
Earth Vulcan
Civil War Romulan
Marauder Empire
in Crisis Romulan
Attack The Deadly
Years The Doomsday
Machine The M-5
Debacle The Wrath
of Khan Khitomer
Crisis The Battle
of Minos Wolf
359 Klingon
Civil War The
Odyssey Death of a
Caretaker A Flagship
Battle The Omarion
Nebula Deep
Space Nine Shattered
Mirror Kazon
Attack The
Swarm Borg /
8472 War Sector
001 The
Dominion War The Valley
of Death The Chin'toka
Invasion
AR-558 Righteous
Insurrection The Chin'koka
Retreat Advance on
Cardassia Vaadwaur
Battle Workforce
Incident Reman
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A Matter of Time
Series : The Next Generation Rating : 4 Random Image
Disc No : 5.3 Episode : 108
First Aired : 18 Nov 1991 Stardate : 45349.1
Director : Paul Lynch Year : 2368
Writers : Rick Berman Season : 5
Guest Cast :
Matt Frewer as Berlingoff RasmussenShay Garner as Female Scientist
Sheila Franklin as Ensign FeltonStefan Gierasch as Hal Moseley
Tracee Lee Cocco as Ensign Jae
Plotline : The fate of an entire planet rests in Picard's hands - a situation not helped by the presence of a historian from the future.
Moral :
Conmen : Charm and a little knowledge does mean they're really from the future.
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YATI : Picard claims that he has inspected Rasmussen's credentials and that they seem to be in order. Huh? Does Rasmussen really have an "Official Federation Time Traveller" card, and how would Picard know it was genuine if he did?

The Enterprise crew use the computer to disable a phaser by remote control in this episode. What a fabulously useful function for the computer to have! One wonders why they didn't bother to use it in "Power Play", "The Hunted", "The Game", "Datalore", "First Contact"...

At the climax of the episode, Picard must face a tough decision - he might be able to save the planet, but only by risking the destruction of the Enterprise. Wouldn't this be a good time to separate the ship and evacuate the civilians on the saucer section?

At one point Riker asks when historians of the future started using time travel to investigate the past. Well it happened a century ago, Will! The Enterprise was doing it in "Assignment : Earth" Silly Riker should have known this.
Great Moment : The Enterprise pulling all the stuff out the atmosphere and spraying it into space. Cool bit of FX...
Body Count : Zero.
Factoid : This is Rick Berman's only solo writing credit in the first five seasons of TNG.
Quote : "Of course you know the Prime Directive, which tells us that we have no right to interfere in the natural evolution of alien worlds. Now, I have sworn to uphold it, but nevertheless I have disregarded that directive on more than one occasion... because I thought it was the right thing to do." - Picard to Rasmussen.
Datapoints :
Architecture : Pentharan City
Illnesses : Telurian plague
Planets : Penthara IV
Scitech : Auto-phaser interlock, EPS taps
Stations : Starbase 214
Temporal : A Matter of Time
Weapons : Phase Weapons
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