Déjà vu (Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century)
| Episode of the series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century | |||
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| title | Déjà-vu | ||
| Original title | Cause and Effect | ||
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| Country of production | United States | ||
| original language | English | ||
| length | 45 minutes | ||
| classification | Season 5 , episode 18 118th episode overall ( list ) |
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| First broadcast | March 21, 1992 | ||
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April 28, 1994 on Sat.1 | ||
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| Director | Jonathan Frakes | ||
| script | Brannon Braga | ||
| production | David Livingston , Herbert J. Wright | ||
| music | Dennis McCarthy | ||
| camera | Marvin V. Rush | ||
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John Farrell (as JP Farrell) |
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Déjà vu is the 118th episode of the US television series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century . It was first broadcast in the USA in March 1992, in Germany in April 1994. It is about a time warp that the crew of the Enterprise gets into and at the end of which the ship is destroyed.
action
The Enterprise is the first Starfleet spaceship to travel to the “Typhon Expansion” space area to map it.
The teaser shows how the warp core is imminent after a collision with the Enterprise. While Captain Picard asks the crew to leave the ship, the Enterprise explodes.
Worf , Data , Riker and Crusher play a game of poker together , and Crusher wins. When she was called to the infirmary, the symptoms of her patient La Forge seemed familiar to her. In his sleep, Dr. Crusher numerous, incomprehensible voices. A meeting of the staff officers the next morning had to be interrupted when the Enterprise encounters a distortion in the space-time continuum that makes the ship unable to maneuver. A spaceship emerging from it is on a collision course with the Enterprise. Picard does not follow a suggestion by Riker to bring the Enterprise to a different course by reducing the pressure in the shuttle ramp and instead has Data's proposal implemented to deflect the strange ship with the tractor beam . The project fails because the ships collide with one another, which rips open the right drive nacelle of the Enterprise. It fails to prevent an imminent breakage of the warp core by pushing it off. Riker orders the crew to go into the escape pods. While Picard asks the crew to leave the ship, the Enterprise explodes.
Worf, Data, Riker and Crusher play a game of poker together. Riker and Crusher have the idea that Riker is bluffing. After Crusher was called to the infirmary, La Forge now believes, alongside her, that she has already experienced this situation. Crusher then reports to Picard of her suspicion of déjà vu , which he confirms. A staff officers' meeting the next morning has to be interrupted when the Enterprise encounters a distortion in the space-time continuum that makes the ship unable to maneuver. The Enterprise collision and explosion also occur, as shown earlier.
Worf, Data, Riker and Crusher play a game of poker together. In addition to Riker and Crusher, Worf now also has the feeling of déjà vus, Crusher predicts the values of the cards given by Data. When called to the infirmary, Crusher informs La Forge that she has been told of déjà-vus from across the ship. An investigation by Datas and La Forges regarding the importance of the voices perceived by Crusher, among others, shows that it is the more than 1000 votes of the crew members of the Enterprise. The two can extract three of them; They show that the Enterprise has gotten into a temporal causality loop and that Picard asks the crew to leave the ship. After the staff officers found out that the voices were echoes from the past, La Forge modified the data so that it was able to send information into the next iteration of the time loop and the crew out of a possible way out to inform the loop. Shortly before the enterprise explosion, Data actually took advantage of this opportunity.
Worf, Data, Riker and Crusher play a game of poker together, with Data now handing out cards associated with the number three. Now everyone except Data has the feeling that they have experienced everything before. From the voices heard by several people, the staff officers extract the particularly frequently occurring number three, which they identify as the message from the previous loop. During the occurrence of the distortion and the strange ship, Data recognizes the meaning of the number three in Riker's badge of rank and therefore carries out his suggestion to reduce the pressure in the shuttle ramp. This prevents the two ships from colliding.
The bridge officers realize that they escaped the temporal distortion and that they have been in it for 17 days. The oncoming ship identifies its captain as the Starfleet spaceship USS Bozeman, a ship that entered the temporal anomaly 80 years earlier in 2278.
reception
The US film magazine Cinefantastique rated the episode with three out of four possible stars. It praised the episode's idea and teaser as an interesting science fiction conceit. However, as a deus-ex-machina situation, the resolution is implausible.
production
The interruptions in the individual time variants were used for commercial breaks in the US version. For the role of the captain of the USS Bozeman, Kelsey Grammer - known from the sitcom "Cheers" - was hired, but only got a very short appearance. The shooting of "Cheers" was filmed in a studio next door, which made this collaboration possible. Due to lack of time, an appearance by Kirstie Alley as first officer of the USS Bozeman was not realized. Jonathan Frakes directed this for the first time after having attended training seminars alongside working on the series.
Web links
- Déjà vu in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Déjà vu at Fernsehserien.de
- Déjà vu in the Star Trek Wiki Memory Alpha
Individual evidence
- ↑ Mark A. Altman: Episode Guide, in: Cinefantastique No. 2/3, October 1992 (23rd year), p. 79
- ↑ Ralph Sander “The Star Trek Universe” - Volume 1 - Pages 510-511 - Heyne Verlag - ISBN 3-453-07759-8