Timescape

Episode aired Jun 14, 1993
TV-PG
45m

IMDb RATING

8.5/10

3.6K

YOUR RATING

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

Action Adventure Drama Sci-Fi

Aboard a shuttlecraft and en route back to the Enterprise, Picard, LaForge, Data, and Troi find themselves trapped in a time trap of some sort, where the Enterprise is being taken over by Ro... Read allAboard a shuttlecraft and en route back to the Enterprise, Picard, LaForge, Data, and Troi find themselves trapped in a time trap of some sort, where the Enterprise is being taken over by Romulans, and the ship, itself, on a course of destruction.Aboard a shuttlecraft and en route back to the Enterprise, Picard, LaForge, Data, and Troi find themselves trapped in a time trap of some sort, where the Enterprise is being taken over by Romulans, and the ship, itself, on a course of destruction.

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IMDb RATING

8.5/10

3.6K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
When Troi describes to Picard the moment that he, Data, and Geordi appeared frozen in time, she stops to tap a spot behind her ear. This is called "plexing," a Betazoid relaxation technique that consists of stimulation of neural pressure points to relieve anxiety. She previously shared the technique with the perpetually anxious Lt. Barclay in Realm of Fear (1992).

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.

Quotes
Deanna Troi: I was just leaving the reception when this Ktarian walks up to me and says...
Deanna Troi: [impersonating Dr. Mizan] "Hello, Diane. I understand you're an empath. I'm a very
[winks]
Deanna Troi: sensitive man myself. I'm doing a thesis on interspecies mating rituals. Would you care to join me in some empirical research?"
Lt. Commander Data: [after La Forge has commented on Dr. Mizan, the Ktarian] Did you help him with his research, Counselor?
Deanna Troi: Absolutely not!
Lt. Commander Data: I thought it was a topic you were interested in.

Connections
Featured in Top 10 Star Trek Technobabbles (2008)

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

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Featured review

5/10

More craptastic stuff involving the space-time continuum.

I hate episodes like this one, though I should note that "Timescape" has a very respectable score on IMDb. Shows about time and space anomalies never leave me satisfied.

A runabout with several crew members is away from the ship to some boring conference. In the meantime, the Enterprise responds to a distress call from a Romulan ship--something which worked out BADLY in the past on this show. When the runabout returns with these folks who attended the conference, they see the Enterprise and the Romulan ship in what appears to be a space battle...and they and the crew inside the ships are frozen in time! What gives? And, how can they right things?

Not only did I think that this episode was amazingly static, but I also thought the ending was awfully flat and anticlimactic. Not a terrible episode but not a very good one either.