Clues (9 Feb. 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.

Director:

Les Landau

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator), Bruce D. Arthurs (teleplay),

Stars:

Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Patrick Stewart	...	Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes	...	Commander William T. Riker
LeVar Burton	...	Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn	...	Lieutenant Worf
Gates McFadden	...	Doctor Beverly Crusher
Marina Sirtis	...	Counselor Deanna Troi
Brent Spiner	...	Lt. Commander Data
Colm Meaney	...	Chief Miles O'Brien
Pamela Winslow	...	Ensign McKnight
Rhonda Aldrich	...	Madeline
Whoopi Goldberg	...	Guinan
Patti Yasutake	...	Nurse Alyssa Ogawa
Thomas Knickerbocker	...	Gunman

Storyline

During leave time aboard, Picard obliges a personal promise to Guinan by playing parts in an Al Capone period gangster mystery story, but soon a mysterious energy source takes precedence. It creates a small, unstable local wormhole, causing everybody to be unconscious, presumably for just half a minute according to the instruments. However strange changes are observed, such as spores showing a full day's growth and the ship is even off course, near a planet of another class. Doubts are inevitable, even about Data, as Geordi finds only they two were able to circumvent the computer security program preventing the clock manipulation which is the only logical explanation, and Data is in perfect working order. Geordi proves that the planet image before the black-out is a fake altered from memory banks, only Data could have switched them and staged an apparent wormhole; Data claims to be unable to verify and should be court-martialed, probably the end of his Starfleet career, but why would ...

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Plot Keywords:

24th century

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Details

Release Date:

9 February 1991 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Goofs

When Guinan enters Dixon Hill's office, Dixon's secretary is no longer visible and her chair is now empty.

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Quotes

[first lines]
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Captain's log, stardate 44502.7 - Early completion of our mission at Harrakis V has allowed me to grant extra personal time for many of the crew. This has come as something of a relief, since our recent tight scheduling has prevented the pursuit of the leisure activities that are a normal part of life aboard the Enterprise. I expect our journey past the Ngame Nebula to be uneventful.

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Connections

Featured in Star Trek: Science vs. Fiction: Wurmlöcher und Schwarze Löcher (2006)

User Reviews

The trouble with time...

Even though this episode has nothing to do with time travel paradoxes or such, still it has a basic "time" problem. The crew's memories are erased and they are led to believe that they have only been unconscious for 30 seconds. The ship's clock and the computer have been altered to reflect the same. And then the whole thing happens again, making them loose a total of two days. An entirely untenable situation that cannot last longer than the first communication to a Federation star base. That base will of course be two days ahead of the Enterprise, which will once again lead to an examination of Data and the transporter, and would probably also lead to the Enterprise revisiting the Paxan home-world for the third time. As the Paxans are evolved enough to stun the whole ship and erase memories, I find it extremely unlikely that they would have overlooked the time lapse. Ergo : it's not the Paxans who have ignored this rather obvious hick-up, but the writers...