- 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.
- The Enterprise sets out to help the colonized planet Penthara IV, where an asteroid impacts with an apocalyptic effect, first scorching then lasting clouding comparable to nuclear winter. En route to it, an unknown vessel appears after a temporal distortion and beams aboard history professor Berlingoff Rasmussen from Earth three centuries later (the 26th), who is obsessed by Picard, who expects the whole crew to be questioned, despite the possibilities of fraud or altering reality. Once at Penthara IV, Geordi on the planet and Data aboard devise a method to create a greenhouse-effect, at the risk of making it far worse, so Picard wrestles with using Rasmussen's hindsight, but his own history proves significantly problematic.—KGF Vissers
- The Enterprise is dispatched to Penthara IV where the inhabitants face a never-ending "winter" after an asteroid strikes the planets. On the way, the sensors detect a powerful temporal distortion and soon after, Berlinghoff Rasmussen appears on the bridge. He claims to be a historian from the 26th century who has traveled back in time to experience history. He's quite convincing and while he is definitely a time traveler his story isn't quite accurate. As for the planet, the Enterprise's first attempt to save goes horribly wrong leading to a series of strong earthquakes. They have only one chance left after that to rectify the problem.—garykmcd
- The Enterprise sets out to help the colonized planet Penthara IV, where an asteroid impacts with an apocalyptic effect, first scorching then lasting clouding comparable to nuclear winter.
On route to it, an unknown vessel appears after a space-time distortion and beams aboard history professor Berlingoff Rasmussen (Matt Frewer) from Earth three centuries later (the 26th century). Berlingoff is obsessed with Picard and considers him a relic from the "early days of space travel". He expects the whole crew to be questioned, despite the possibilities of fraud or altering reality. Picard says that Berlingoff's credentials check out and the ship he arrived in, has advanced technology.. So, as it is, the crew is instructed to show every possible courtesy to him. He calls Data the Model T of androids.
Once at Penthara IV, Geordi on the planet and Data aboard devise a method to create a greenhouse-effect. Their plan is to release CO2 into the atmosphere from 3 Sub-Terran pockets which will create an envelope of the gas to trap the sun's heat. Dr Hal Mosely (Stefan Gierasch) is the head of the colony. Data is worried about the tectonic stability of the drilling sites. The drill commences.
Berlingoff makes it apparent that he is here to watch the mission on Penthara IV. He keeps checking his watch and checks on progress being made by Geordi and Data in engineering. Berlingoff steals one piece of equipment when Geordi and Data weren't looking. Deanna doesn't trust Berlingoff and tells him so, while he tries to hit on Beverly who is not very interested with him. Beverly only wanted to learn about medical advancements from him.
Suddenly alarms go off as the planet experiences 2 massive earthquakes at the 2 drilling sites, which triggers volcanic activity across the entire plate. The volcanic dust coming out due to the volcanoes will trigger a more severe ice age compounding the effect of the asteroid. Berlingoff steals a neural Stimulator from Beverly and a Tricorder from Data.
Data and Geordi present an analysis to Picard that using the phasers of the Enterprise they can ionize the dust particles in the atmosphere and attract them to the ship's shield. But if they are off in their calculations, their phasers could also burn off the entire atmosphere.
Picard wants Berlingoff to share with him whether to proceed with this choice or not. He refuses as he has his own Prime Directive. Picard goes ahead with the gambit, and it works. The atmosphere is cleared of all dust. Berlingoff says it's time to leave. Worf and Picard stop him as there are several objects missing from the ship. Picard wants to search his ship, but Berlingoff would only allow in Data
The ship's door closes once Data and Berlingoff enter it. Once inside, Berlingoff reveals that the ship came from the 26th century to the 22nd century. Berlingoff belongs to the 22nd century and he killed the occupant from the future and took control of the ship to become a time traveler himself. His plan it to steal future inventions and return to his time and make a fortune by "inventing" them. Now his plan is to abduct Data and take him back to the 22nd century. He holds Data at phaser, but it is not charged. Data forces him out of his ship. Data also removes all the future items Berlingoff had stolen. The ship returns to the 26th century at a predetermined time. Picard plans to send Berlingoff to a brig on a star base.
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