Timescape (12 Jun. 1993)

Picard, LaForge, Data and Troi return from a sadly boring scientific conference to the Enterprise. They experience weird instances where either one or several of them are perceived to seem ... See full summary »

Director:

Adam Nimoy

Writers:

Gene Roddenberry (creator), Brannon Braga

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
Michael Bofshever	...	Alien #1
John DeMita	...	Romulan
Joel Fredericks	...	Engineer

Storyline

Picard, LaForge, Data and Troi return from a sadly boring scientific conference to the Enterprise. They experience weird instances where either one or several of them are perceived to seem frozen in time by the other(s), although both biometrics and technical shuttle diagnostics check out perfectly normal. It soon turns out there is a whole spray of tiny local occurrences of time-space-continuum distortions, most worrying in a pattern pointing at the Enterprise, which they find frozen as well as a Romulan war-bird, which seems to be frozen during an invasion, but once they find a way to get aboard without being sucked-in that appears fake. The source of the distortions is an organism, from another continuum.

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Plot Keywords:

24th century

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Genres:

Action | Adventure | Sci-Fi

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Details

Release Date:

12 June 1993 (USA)

Company Credits

Production Co:

Paramount Television

Technical Specs

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

The first and only time that a Runabout is seen in Star Trek: The Next Generation. They're more often seen in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. This is also the only episode where we get to see the interior aft compartment of a Runabout.

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Goofs

Picard is exposed to a "temporal anomaly" around the fruit bowl for less than ten seconds of real time. This causes his fingernails grow around a half inch longer. Data reports that time is passing at 50 times the normal rate, which means that Picard's hand was inside the anomaly for less than 500 seconds (around eight minutes). His fingernails would not have experienced any visible growth in this amount of time.

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Quotes

[Dr. Crusher is treating a cut on Riker's forehead]
Doctor Beverly Crusher: You've gotta stop playing parrises squares as if you're twenty-one years old. One of these days, you're gonna fall and break your neck, and I'm not gonna be able to heal that as easily.
Commander William T. Riker: I wasn't playing parrises squares.
Doctor Beverly Crusher: Worf's calisthenic program?
Commander William T. Riker: No.
Doctor Beverly Crusher: I give up. What was it?
Commander William T. Riker: I was trying to feed Spot.

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Connections

References Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Next Phase (1992)

User Reviews

Another great time episode.

ST:TNG:151 - "Timescape" (Stardate: 46944.2) - this is the 25th episode of the 6th season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

In another very intriguing episode that characterizes the greatness of the 6th season of TNG, this time it's again about the unique effects of time (pardon the pun!).

Picard, Data, Geordi, and Troi, on their return via shuttlecraft from a symposium, encounter ripples in time where time either slows down or speeds up. Quickly returning to the Enterprise, they see that the ship is frozen in time, firing and being fired upon by a Romulan Warbird (which is also frozen in time)! Now it's up to them to get on the Enterprise without becoming frozen themselves figuring out what in the name of time is happening!

Trivia note: this is another episode directed by Adam Niomy (Leonard "Spock" Nimoy's son). Riker also gets a deep scratch by Data's cat Spot! Picard recalls Troi knowing more about a Romulan Warbird since she was on one in "Face Of The Enemy".