Yesterday Today Tomorrow

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Episode of the series Spaceship Enterprise - The Next Century
title Yesterday Today Tomorrow
Original title All Good Things ...
TNG DE title neu.svg
Country of production United States
original language English
length 2 times 45 minutes
classification Season  7 , episodes 25 and 26
177th and 178th episodes in total ( list )
First broadcast May 23, 1994
German-language
first broadcast		 July 26 and 27, 1994 on Sat.1
Rod
Director Winrich Kolbe
script Ronald D. Moore , Brannon Braga
production Ronald D. Moore
music Dennis McCarthy
camera Jonathan West
chronology

←  Predecessor
The return of Ro Laren

Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (original title: All Good Things ... ) is the German title of the final double episode of the US science fiction television series Raumschiff Enterprise - Das next Jahrhundert , of which it is part of the seventh season . It was first broadcast in 1994 on both US and German television. It is about the forwards and backwards movements of Captain Picard through time, which seem to be related by an anomaly occurring in all three time periods, and which he therefore tries to combat. In doing so, he again comes into contact with the omnipotent Q , who subjects him to a test of the raison d'être of mankind in accomplishing this task .

The separate Blu-ray release, that is not part of the seventh season box, bears the German title Alle gute Dinge.

action

With no explanation yet, Captain Picard moves back and forth through time. He alternates between seven years in the past and the present and 25 years in the future. The plot thus takes place mainly in the years 2364, 2370 and around 2395. After each change of time period, Picard keeps the events from the last time period in mind.

In the future, Picard will be an old man who runs a winery in France and who has “Irumodic Syndrome”, which makes him senile. He became an ambassador after he left the Enterprise nine years ago. When he married Dr. Crusher took this his last name, which she kept after the divorce. La Forge no longer wears a visor and is a novelist, now with Dr. Leah Brahms married and father of three. Data is now a professor at Cambridge University and can now experience emotions. Riker is now an admiral. There was a falling out between him and Picard after Riker blamed Picard for the fact that Troi never had a love affair with Riker. When Picard is visited at the La Forge winery, he repeatedly sees some raging men laughing at him. He refuses to be judged as senile because of his experiences in the other time periods. Seeking help, he goes with La Forge to see Data in Cambridge, who is doing a neurographic scan on Picard.

There are currently 30 Romulan warbirds on their way to the neutral zone, which is why Starfleet is assuming aggression. Scans have located a kind of spatial anomaly in the Devron system there. Because of this, and in order to find out the intentions of the Romulans, the Enterprise is ordered to the edge of the neutral zone.

In the past, Picard is just taking command of the Enterprise when it is commissioned. Because a space anomaly was discovered in the Devron system during this period, too, Starfleet raised the alarm. Nevertheless, Picard orders not to fly there, but to carry out the Farpoint mission.

As the number of time period changes increases, Picard comes to believe that it is the anomaly that is responsible for the time changes. That's why he wants to examine them more closely.

In the future, Picard plans to fly to the neutral zone to find the anomaly. The neutral zone no longer exists in this form because the Klingons have long since conquered the Romulan Empire. Because Riker does not want to help, Picard, La Forge and Data fly with Dr. Picard commanded the medical transport ship USS Pasteur in the area. Because they have to invade Klingon territory to do this, they get help from Worf, who is now governor.

In the present, Picard finds himself before the Q-convened tribunal before which he was indicted seven years earlier as a representative of a barbarian species. Q did not create the anomaly, but is responsible for the time shifts Picard experienced. He finds Picard guilty of inferiority, regards the seven years as wasted and therefore wants to deny humanity any further existence. The trial is adjourned, so Picard believes Q will give him another chance.

In the present, with the permission of a Romulan commander, the Enterprise flies to the Devron system, where it finds the anomaly. The Enterprise has also found the anomaly in the past, but it is even greater there. Because the anomaly does not exist in the future, Data looks for it. Suddenly, an aged Q appears on Picard, so Picard fears it is the anomaly that is destroying humanity.

In the present, the crew realizes that the anomaly is sending out the energy of several stars. To get even more information about the anomaly, Picard sends out a tachyon pulse using his memories from the future . The anomaly is a multiphase temporal convergence within the space-time continuum, an eruption of anti-time in which time and anti-time collide. Picard then sends the Tachyon pulse in the past as well.

In the future, the Pasteur will be attacked and pursued by Klingon battleships. Suddenly the model of the Enterprise, which is under the command of Riker and which has been further developed compared to the Enterprise-D, appears, which draws fire and, before the Pasteur explodes due to a warp core, takes the Pasteur's crew on board.

In the present, the DNA in La Forge's optic nerves is regenerating and Ogawa's unborn baby is getting younger and younger, so that it disappears completely from the stomach. The time reversal continues, everyone regresses and could die from it. Q suddenly reappears and moves Picard to give him a different perspective on earth at the time when the primordial slime would have to develop into first life. The anomaly is also there. The further the time is turned back, the greater the anomaly. Q tells Picard that the anomaly interrupted the beginnings of life on Earth.

In the present, the Tachyon impulse converges with the two impulses from the Enterprises from the other two time periods.

In the future, Picard informs Riker that it is the tachyon pulse in this time period that caused the anomaly in the first place. The convergence of the three impulses broke the subspace barrier and triggered an anti-time reaction. The effect moves in the opposite direction through the space-time continuum and becomes larger in the process. With this, Picard can convince Riker to fly the Enterprise back to the Devron system to prevent the anomaly that is just emerging from moving backwards in time. With the same conviction, Picard has the tachyon pulse deactivated in the present and in the past and set the Enterprise course in the center of the anomaly in order to create a static warp shell there and thus bring it to collapse. A subspace barrier is formed, all three Enterprises see each other and explode one after the other, whereby the anomaly disappears.

Picard finds himself in the presence of Q, who tells him that Picard has once again saved humanity. Because Picard passed the challenge of solving the problem, Q restored the present. The Q continuum put Picard in this position and caused the anomaly to see how he deals with new things. However, Q's idea was to help Picard with this. He advises him to explore unfamiliar possibilities of existence instead of doing mundane things like mapping stars or studying nebulae.

Picard is the only one who remembers what happened and tells his colleagues what he went through. In doing so, he wants to prevent some of the future events and the falling out of his colleagues.

For the first time Picard plays poker with the other senior officers .

production

The budget was approximately $ 6.3 million.

reception

When it first aired on US television, the episode was seen by approximately 31 million viewers.

The two-parter received Emmy nominations for costume design, editing, and musical composition. There was an Emmy award for the visual special effects . The episode was also honored with the Hugo Science Fiction Prize in the Best Dramatic Performance category ( → Main article: List of awards and nominations for the Star Trek TV series ).

The US science fiction magazine Cinefantastique rated the episode three and a half stars out of four and praised the dynamism of the team members in particular. However, there is too much technobabble in the second half .

novel

The double episode was published as a novel version in 1994 under the title All Good Things ... in English by Pocket Books. Translated into German, Heyne Verlag published the novel written by Michael Jan Friedman in 1996 under the title The Condemnation .

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Star Trek: The Next Generation - All good things Blu-ray, in: bluray-disc.de, accessed on April 23, 2015.
  2. ↑ IMDb
  3. ↑ Eric Schmuckler: Profits, Reruns and the End of 'Next Generation', in: The New York Times, July 24, 1994, accessed January 22, 2015.
  4. ↑ Cinefantastique No. 6/1, Dec. 1994 (Vol. 25/26), p. 93.