Time shenanigans? I hope so, but I don’t actually remember what this episode is about!
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Interesting language thing I’ve noticed: when describing a creature that is bipedal and basically symmetrical on a left/right vertical axis, everyone says “humanoid”. This word of course describes all sorts of races, including Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi, etc, but even Klingons, Romulans, Ferengi, etc, say “humanoid” instead of “Klingonoid”, “Romulanoid”, “Ferenginoid”, etc. This is of course because the show was written in the late 80s by a bunch of humans in a universe that did not have alien life, but it’s still really interesting to me.
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Everything is backwards on this future shuttle and future Picard, it leads one to think that this was almost a Mirror Universe episode.
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More ridiculously specious science!
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This episode makes no sense. Why did Picard murder himself? Why did he think rushing into the vortex was the correct option? Why not pin a note to the other Picard and let him go back in time to give yourself a better chance to fix the problem next time?
I understand a lot of Star Trek is not, you know, scientifically sound, but as the girl said before, this pseudoscience is a lot more pseudo than I’m generally comfortable with. Why is the other Picard a gibbering mess until he catches up to his own time? Because really pseudo pseudoscience!
Episodes like this do remind me just how good an actor Patrick Stewart is, though. He’s given this ridiculous bullshit script that some writer pulled out of their ass, but Stewart stills turns in an amazing performance. Sometimes even two performances in one episode!
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