Episode Spotlight - TNG

[Takara_Soong 4]

ALL GOOD THINGS...

 

Picard finds himself traveling between the past, present, and future while attempting to prevent the destruction of humanity … by his own actions.

 

The classic series ending two part episode All Good Things... will be on Bonus Treks on TNN on May 30!

 

Synopsis Part I

 

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A panicked Picard bursts off the Turbolift in his bathrobe, declaring that he is inexplicably moving back and forth through time. Shaken, he begins to describe the experience to Troi, but is then transported 25 years into the future, working in the vineyard at his home in France. He is visited by Geordi, who has come because Picard is ill with Irumodic Syndrome, an affliction which causes mental deterioration. Picard is then transported to the past, where he is on a shuttlecraft with Tasha Yar, traveling to the U.S.S. Enterprise for the first time. Moments later, he is back in the present, at which point Troi places an urgent call to Sickbay.

 

Neither Beverly's tests nor Worf's security scans show any indication that Picard physically left the ship. The investigation is then put on hold by news that several Romulan Warbirds are headed for the Neutral Zone, toward a spatial anomaly in the Devron system. Picard is transported back to the future, where he remembers bits and pieces of what just transpired, then tries to explain this to Geordi, who is unconvinced, blaming it on Picard's disease. Geordi is worried enough to take Picard to Cambridge, where Data is a professor. Data decides to explore the possibilities, but Picard is transported back to the past, arriving at the point of his initial arrival on the Enterprise. Among the crew, he sees a group of scraggly humans laughing at him, a sight he has already encountered twice in the future. This is enough for him to suddenly declare a Red Alert.

 

Since he has foreknowledge of future events, Picard decides not to tell this crew what is happening. He senses a connection when he is told that several vessels are moving toward an anomaly in the Devron system. Starfleet cancels the ship's mission to Farpoint Station, but Picard insists they go there anyway and refuses to explain his decision to the confused crew. Soon afterward, he finds himself back in the present in Beverly's office. She scans Picard, and learns that he has accumulated over two days worth of memories in just a few minutes — real confirmation to what Picard has been saying.

 

Still in the present, Picard and the crew ponder the significance of the anomaly, which occurred in both the present and the past. Exhausted, Picard lies down in his Ready Room, then finds himself in the future. He insists in going to the Neutral Zone to find the anomaly, causing Geordi to worry about Picard's sanity. Still, he, Data, and Picard ask Riker, who is now an admiral, for help. However, since the Klingons, who have taken over the Romulan Empire and closed their borders to Federation starships, now control the area, Riker is unwilling to let them proceed. Data proposes they instead travel on a medical ship, and they wind up on a vessel commanded by Beverly, now Picard's ex-wife. Geordi suggests that Worf, who is a governor in the Klingon Empire, might help them enter the territory. Picard then returns to the past, still on course for Farpoint. Suddenly, he finds himself face-to-face with Q, in the courtroom where they first met seven years ago.

 

Q offers to answer ten "yes" or "no" questions. Picard learns that his time shifting is connected to the "trail" Q put him through seven years earlier, that the spatial anomaly in the Neutral Zone is involved, and that a verdict has been rendered humanity will be destroyed. However, while Q is causing Picard to shift through time, it is Picard, not Q, who is responsible for the imminent destruction. Picard then wakes up in his Ready Room, in the present, and declares a Red Alert ...

 

 

Synopsis Part II

 

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After his encounter with Q, Picard assembles the senior staff, and wonders if Q is actually giving him a chance to save humanity by showing him that the spatial anomaly also exists in the past. As they talk, the ship reaches the Neutral Zone, then Picard returns to the future, where Beverly's ship is also on the edge of the Neutral Zone. He convinces a reluctant Worf to accompany the group into Klingon territory, and then travels to the past, where he orders the crew into the Devron system. Finally, he returns to the present, where he is able to get Tomalak, the Romulan Commander on the other side of the border, to agree to entering the Neutral Zone together. Now heading for the anomaly in all three time periods, Picard learns that it exists in the present, and is larger in the past, but does not exist in the future.

 

Picard cannot understand why the anomaly is missing, and Beverly gives Data six hours to scan for the anomaly using an inverse tachyon pulse, then reminds Picard that this all might be a delusion. She leaves and Q reappears, again saying that it is Picard who destroys humanity. Picard then returns to the present, and suggests using the tachyon pulse to penetrate the anomaly. When Data begins sending the pulse, Geordi's eyes mysteriously start to rejuvenate. Data theorizes that this is because the anomaly is an eruption of "anti-time" — which has collided with normal time to create a rupture in space that is causing people to revert to an earlier stage of development. Picard then returns to the past, and suggests again that Data use a tachyon pulse to scan the anomaly. After this, he returns to the future, where Beverly's ship is attacked by Klingon forces.

 

The U.S.S. Enterprise, with Riker in command, appears and saves the medical ship, then brings the crew aboard just before the vessel explodes. Picard frantically insists that Riker continue the search. He then returns to the present, where Beverly tells him that the anomaly is affecting the entire crew. Picard orders Data to find a way to collapse the anomaly, at which point Q appears again. He takes Picard back to primordial Earth, where the anomaly fills the entire sky and a pond of amino acids is about to form the first protein. However, when these first building blocks of life fail to coalesce, Picard then realizes that his own actions somehow caused the anomaly, which then prevented the beginning of life on Earth.

 

In the past, Troi informs Picard that the anomaly is beginning to affect people there. Picard meets with Data and O'Brien, but they are unable to scan the anomaly enough to completely understand it. Returning to the present, Picard has Data change his scanning methods, which allows them to discover that their tachyon pulse is converging with two identical pulses at the center of the anomaly. Picard realizes that these scans must be from the other two Enterprises. He then finds himself back in the future, where he tries to convince his former crew that he is right. Luckily, Data sees the logic in what Picard is saying, and helps him explain that the anomaly could have formed in the future, where they are, then grow larger as it moved backward through time. Theorizing that the convergence of the three pulses ruptured the subspace barrier and caused the anti-time reaction, the group decides to return to the Devron system to see if the anomaly has begun to form.

 

Back in the Devron system, the crew detects a very small version of the anomaly. Data suggests shutting down the tachyon pulses, then Picard returns to the present and orders their pulse disengaged. The anomaly, however, remains unchanged. Picard then returns to the past, where he again has the pulse shut off. Again, the anomaly is unaffected. Back in the future, Data decides that their only option is to repair the rupture by taking the ship inside the anomaly, using the engines to create a static warp shell which would separate time from anti-time. This must, however, be done in all three time periods in order for the anomaly to collapse — which could quite possibly destroy all three ships. Picard returns to the past and gives the order, then repeats it in the present. Finally, the future Enterprise heads into the anomaly. All three ships reach the center and initiate the warp shells, and the anomaly begins to collapse. As it does, the past and present Enterprises are destroyed, then Q appears with Picard just as the future Enterprise. is about to explode. Suddenly, Picard finds himself in the courtroom, facing Q again, who tells Picard he has succeeded in saving humanity. Picard is returned to the moment his adventure began, coming from the Turbolift in his bathrobe. He shares his experience with the crew, using what he has learned about the future to forge a new, closer relationship with his dearest friends.

 

 

Synopsis from Startrek.com

[A l t e r E g o 9]

A THOUSAND WORDS...

 

[ddillard 2]

I loved the episode. Especially that Picard and Crusher had been married in the future, but did not the divorce angle.

[bevfanK 0]

Ok I love this ep. I thought it was cool that in the "future" Dr. Crusher had her own ship.. :(

I also love the scene in his ready room "A lot can happen in 25 years." uh I so LOVED that part.. :(

 

tell me when 25 years is up ok.. :)

 

all hail Bev!! :)

[Sam The Smuggler 1]

Quote From My Older Brother :)

 

I Think It's Sad That Their Final Episode Is Better Than Their First Movie.

 

 

LOL

[Lessa_Soong 0]

I still think that Q's line about needing to speak to the maid was great. So very Q!

[Yillara Skye 1]

I still think that Q's line about needing to speak to the maid was great. So very Q!

I agree I LOVE that line!!

 

 

Ok, and seeing Data as a physics professor was also great!

[ddillard 2]

I still think that Q's line about needing to speak to the maid was great. So very Q!

I agree I LOVE that line!!

 

 

Ok, and seeing Data as a physics professor was also great!

And his "maid"'s comment about the white streak in his hair making him "look like a bloody skunk" was classic

[Yillara Skye 1]

I still think that Q's line about needing to speak to the maid was great. So very Q!

I agree I LOVE that line!!

 

 

Ok, and seeing Data as a physics professor was also great!

And his "maid"'s comment about the white streak in his hair making him "look like a bloody skunk" was classic

I agree, about the maid's comment! When I saw him with that white streak...I cracked up! As much as I love him, the white streak in his hair was not such a good idea!

[bevfanK 0]

I still think that Q's line about needing to speak to the maid was great. So very Q!

I agree I LOVE that line!!

 

 

Ok, and seeing Data as a physics professor was also great!

And his "maid"'s comment about the white streak in his hair making him "look like a bloody skunk" was classic

I agree, about the maid's comment! When I saw him with that white streak...I cracked up! As much as I love him, the white streak in his hair was not such a good idea!

agreed..

[Lessa_Soong 0]

If i had been that woman, i would have just thrown brown hair dye at him. It wouldn't have hurt him!

 

It did kind of seem sad that it took Picard til the end to ever join a poker game though.

[Admiral Kirk 1]

I love the story and the attention to detail that went into the production. I really like the revamped Enterprise-D and the klingon ships. it was fittin g that this show which started with Q ended with him also. I hated to see the show go...

[Sam The Smuggler 1]

This Episode(Two Really) Was Great. I recorded It When It Aired

 

That was Awsome...but I was bummed out that it was the last Episode....

 

 

and yes..this was a great Line

 

Jessel-"If you're really his friend, you'll get him to take that grey out of his hair."

 

Data-"Jessel."

 

Jessel-"Looks like a bloody skunk."

[prometheus 0]

This was a great ending as it brought the series full circle and left the whole thing open for the movies. There was a nice sense of closure and a sense of optimism.

[trekbabe 0]

I love the story and the attention to detail that went into the production.  I really like the revamped Enterprise-D and the klingon ships.  it was fittin g that this show which started with Q ended with him also.  I hated to see the show go...

I agree. I wonder if Q will be in any ST movies? I have to say that "all good things" was the best ending of all the trek series. My fave moment is when Data understands Picard's chicken and the egg explanation and everyone realises he's not crazy. EXCELLENT!!

[prometheus 0]

I wonder if a non-star trek audience would understand Q? At the movies that is.

[jdigs 0]

Whenever I caught this ep on Tv and then in the Dvd collection..I would get all emotional..having to say goodbye..again.

[ddillard 2]

This was a great ending as it brought the series full circle and left the whole thing open for the movies. There was a nice sense of closure and a sense of optimism.

Definitely agreed

 

[bevfanK 0]

I thought I should add this..

You want details?? Ok..

 

On the bridge Riker, Picard, and Crusher.

Picard is tired so he goes to his readyroom.

Beverly comes in and goes straight for the replicater and ordes warm milk with a dash of nutmeg.

Picard- "What's this?"

*Beverly walks over and sits on his desk sitting the milk down on the desk as she sits.*

Crusher- "A perscription,(sp?) glass of warm milk and eight hours uninterrupted sleep."

P- "Beverly."

C- "Doctors orders. Your exhausted look I don't know if you slept in the past or in the future but I'm sure you haven't slept in the present. Now get some rest or I'll have you relieved and sedated."

P- "Yes sir. What? Hey Beverly."

C- "As a physician it's often my job to give people unpleasent news, to tell them they need surgery or that they can't have children or that they may be facing a difficult illness."

P- "But you said yourself this is only a possibility."

C- "But you've been to the future you know it's going to happen."

P- "I prefer to look at the future as something that is not set in stone, a lot of things can happen in 25 years."

They kiss.. 

C- "A lot of things can happen."

 

Beverly gets up and leaves his readyroom..

Was that detailed enough???