- The Enterprise C enters the Enterprise D's time and space continuum, where they find Picard and crew in a constant state of war with the Klingons, and only Guinan knows it.
- The Enterprise is observing a celestial anomaly, something akin to a wormhole when a starship appears having traveled through it. To everyone's surprise, the ship is an earlier version of the Enterprise, the Enterprise-C commanded by Captain Rachel Garrett. The instant the Enterprise-C arrives however, history is changed. Captain Picard and his Enterprise are battle weary with the Federation having been at war with the Klingon Empire for 20 years. Lt. Tasha Yar is alive with Lt. Worf nowhere to be found. Guinan knows something is wrong and Picard realizes that the Enterprise-C must return to its own time and place if their time line is to be restored.—garykmcd
- The Enterprise is observing a celestial anomaly, something akin to a wormhole when a star ship appears having traveled through it. To everyone's surprise, the ship is an earlier version of the Enterprise, the Enterprise-C commanded by Captain Rachel Garrett (Tricia O'Neil). The instant the Enterprise-C arrives however, history is changed.
Captain Picard and his Enterprise are battle weary with the Federation having been at war with the Klingon Empire for 20 years. Lt. Tasha Yar (Denise Crosby) is alive with Lt. Worf nowhere to be found. Enterprise C was supposed to have been destroyed 20 years ago near a Klingon outpost at Narendra III. C has massive casualties but has some life readings as well. Garrett sends a distress signal on audio saying C was attacked by Romulans and requires assistance. But D history suggests that C was never attacked by Romulans ever.
Beverly beams Rachel over to sickbay D. Klingons approach. Yar and Riker find Helmsman Castillo (Christopher McDonald), alive on C as well. Riker reports 125 survivors as Geordi fixes the life support of C. Rachel is surprised to know that her ship traveled 22 years into the future. But she doesn't want to go back to her time as she barely escaped the attack. Rachel was responding to a distress call from Narendra III. But it was already destroyed by 4 Romulan war birds. Picard feels if Rachael had succeeded in saving the outpost that day, it would have averted 20 years of war with the Klingons.
Guinan knows something is wrong (D is at war and there are no children on board D) and Picard realizes that the Enterprise-C must return to its own time and place if their time line is to be restored. Picard knows sending C back through the same wormhole would mean a death sentence as it won't survive the Romulans. Guinan is clear that this time line should not be allowed to continue. 40 Bn people have already died in a war that wasn't supposed to happen.
Castillo and Tasha befriend each other. They work on the shields of C, but it still has limited armaments. Picard's officers are mostly against sending C back to its time. Only Data argues that even dying in battle to protect their outpost would be seen by the Klingon as an act of courage and would earn the gratitude of the race. Picard tells Rachel that the war is going badly for the Federation. They may have to surrender within 6 months. More than half the star ships have been lost to the Klingons already. One more ship today will not make any difference to the war. But 20 years ago, that one ship could stop the war before it starts.
Picard returns to D, while Tasha stays to say goodbye to Castillo. Klingons attack and Rachel dies on C. Castillo wants to lead C, but Tasha asks Picard to transfer her to C to help Castillo. She knows that in the alternate time line she is dead (she speaks to Guinan and learns the same). hence her going back in time and dying to the Romulans won't have any impact. 3 more K'Vort class Klingon battle cruisers are on their way. D decides to cover for C, till she enters the rift. D destroys one battle cruiser, even as the Klingons go after C. D is damaged badly and has 2 mins till a warp core breach. Riker dies in the continuing attack. C enters the temporal rift. Suddenly everything is back to normal. Rift closes.
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