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| Series : | The Next Generation | Rating : |  |
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| Disc No : | 5.3 | Episode : | 108 | |||||||||||||||
| First Aired : | 18 Nov 1991 | Stardate : | 45349.1 | |||||||||||||||
| Director : | Paul Lynch | Year : | 2368 | |||||||||||||||
| Writers : | Rick Berman | Season : | 5 | |||||||||||||||
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| 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. | |||||||||||||||||
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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. |
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| 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. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Images : | 
Architecture Pentharan City 
Temporal A Matter of Time
Temporal A Matter of Time 
Temporal A Matter of Time 
Temporal A Matter of Time 
People Hal Moseley 
People Berlingoff Rasmussen 
Planets Penthara IV |
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