We'll Always Have Paris

Episode aired Apr 30, 1988
TV-PG
45m

IMDb RATING

6.5/10

3.6K

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Patrick Stewart and Michelle Phillips in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987)

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

A scientist's experiment in time goes awry, reuniting Picard with an old flame, now married to the scientist.A scientist's experiment in time goes awry, reuniting Picard with an old flame, now married to the scientist.A scientist's experiment in time goes awry, reuniting Picard with an old flame, now married to the scientist.

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IMDb RATING

6.5/10

3.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
The menu at the Café des Artistes includes such delicacies as "Croissants D'ilithium", "Klingon Targ a la mode," "Tribbles dans les blankettes," and "L'Antimatter Flambé."

Goofs
When Data puts the antimatter in the stream, he asks for a 27 second count down. Data has an internal chronometer and is notorious for giving arrival times down to the second. He is also capable of handling multiple calculations and thoughts at the same time without distraction. Why would he need an external audio countdown? Data requested the external audio countdown before the time distortion occurred because he knew that, when it occurred, there would be more than one of him and then could link his chronometer with the correct dimension.

Quotes
[last lines]
Commander William T. Riker: I've only been there once, but they've got this great club - I don't remember the name of it. They serve those blue concoctions.
Counselor Deanna Troi: It's across the square from the Zanza Men's Dance Palace.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: It's called the Blue Parrot Cafe - and you're buying.

Connections
Featured in Viden om: Teleportation (1999)

Soundtracks
Star Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage

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Featured review

4/10

I had trouble keeping my eyes open with this one....

This episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is a rather poor one--mostly because the show features two plots and one of them is frankly very dull. As for the other, it is decent...but nothing to get excited about either. Overall, it left me very flat.

The Enterprise notices a space wrinkle where things repeat themselves for an instant. This distortion is investigated--and it takes the ship right in the path of a woman who Picard abandoned many years ago in order to go to space. Michelle Phillips stars as the woman and this part of the show isn't bad. But the time distortion is so very dull and uninteresting. It really was just an excuse to bring Picard and his old flame together--and it should have been a lot better. Overall, sort of like a soap opera and as far as the sci-fi goes, it was a bust.

By the way, while many viewers will recognize the phrase "we'll always have Paris". If you don't, it's from "Casablanca".