Timescape

[darkshadow0001]

I just watched Timescape on Sci-Fi, and I have always wondered about the "Face" shown on the warp-core breech on the Enterprise during the "frozen" time period. Did Picard actually draw that there or did it just appear out of nowhere and in Picard's confused state of mind just started laughing at it for no reason?

 

[Trekker4747]

I just watched Timescape on Sci-Fi, and I have always wondered about the "Face" shown on the warp-core breech on the Enterprise during the "frozen" time period. Did Picard actually draw that there or did it just appear out of nowhere and in Picard's confused state of mind just started laughing at it for no reason?

Picard had obviously drawn it there.

He must've just seen a bunch of old T-shirts from the 70s or something.

 

[WillsBabe]

I thought that he'd drawn it. I thought by the way he pointed to it, he did it in a way that he'd just drawn it.

 

[Dane_Whitman]

That scene always cracks me up big time.

 

[darkshadow0001]

I thought he drew it too, but that scene always just seemed weird...

 

[backstept]

definitely one of my favorite moments

 

[nx1701g]

You have to wonder something though. When they reversed time did it erase it? Was it still there when they beamed back at the end of the episode to prevent the Enterprise's destruction?

I always loved this episode. It's one of my favorites.

 

[Renvar]

There were a lot of nits with this episode, as there usually are with time travel episodes. Many have speculated that, had time really been slowed to a crawl on the ship, it should have affected the oxygen molecules in the atmosphere so that they could not bind with carbon in the lungs. Another nit was the doubts that they should be able to move objects or interact at all with the environment.

 

[SonicRanger]

^^^

I worry a whole lot more about Ro and Geordi were breathing in "The Next Phase"

 

[PhoenixIreland]

I always found it odd they never showd the back of a runabout in the entire run of DS9, but showed it in the one and only episode TNG had one.

 

[WillsBabe]

While we're on the subject of Timescape, I find it to be an odd episode. Not in a bad way, but its atmosphere seems different to me. I think it's the combination of the unusual character mix of Geordi, Picard and Troi at the beginning of the episode (you don't often see the 3 of them having an adventure), the runabout which was a different location for TNG and because it's one of the only (the only?) episode that doesn't start on the Enterprise. Also the Enterprise is a destination rather than the home location (if that makes sense). I really like this episode and think it's pretty under-rated, actually.

 

[Timo]

I worry a whole lot more about Ro and Geordi were breathing in "The Next Phase"

I don't, really. It's not as if they are in outer space or some weird alternate realm there. They are simply in our ordinary universe, but "phased" - and if that means the same thing as in "Time's Arrow", it's just that LaForge and Ro somehow live a fraction of a second in the future or more probably the past.

Living in the past would explain most of the things rather perfectly. None of the E-D crew would see our protagonists because they would only "appear on the scene" after the crew had "left". However, the protagonists would sense the light, sound and smell left behind by the crew that had just "left" - they just couldn't create any sort of a feedback, because there was nobody there any more.

That wouldn't stop them from making use of the light, sound, smell and air molecules "left behind", though. While chemical interaction with those molecules would be difficult due to the rapidly decaying chance of feedback, there might be enough of it left to sustain life processes. Not enough to sustain the longterm solidity of walls, but enough to sustain the brief electron transfers necessary for oxidation. It might be like breathing thin mountain air, but it could still be breathing.

...And apparently artificial gravity would have the sort of lingering properties that would keep the protagonists from sinking through. Or at least all the way through. We might argue they sank a centimeter or so through the carpeting before hitting the graviton mats, and nobody noticed.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[nx1701g]

it's one of the only (the only?) episode that doesn't start on the Enterprise.

Actually it did begin on the Enterprise. Dr. Crusher and Cmdr. Riker are in Sickbay discussing how Will got scratches on his head and he says he was trying to feed Spot then it switches to the bridge.

But I understand what you mean. It's one of the only episodes that focuses on being aboard something other than the Enterprise.

There were a lot of nits with this episode, as there usually are with time travel episodes. Many have speculated that, had time really been slowed to a crawl on the ship, it should have affected the oxygen molecules in the atmosphere so that they could not bind with carbon in the lungs. Another nit was the doubts that they should be able to move objects or interact at all with the environment.

I had a thought about that myself, but I attributed it to contact with the Away Teams temporal dampeners. Maybe by touching objects the field temporarily expanded to them to allow they to be used. Picard - in one scene for example - is visably working at the Tactical Station and pressing buttons to acquire information. The same may be true for the air. Maybe the temporal isolators did something to the oxygen to make it compatible.

 

[Eric Cheung]

I had to rewind the DVR on Monday night to remember what happened to Geordi. He has his seizure, then Troi yanks off his arm band and then we never see him again. It was only when I looked back that I realized there was a throw-away line where Picard orders Riker to have Geordi beamed back from the Romulan ship.

It also seemed to follow a trend around that time of the crew comiserating behind the back of some excessively dry colleague not from the Enterprise. Was the 1701-D getting cliquey in the sixth and seventh seasons or what? Here Troi and Picard make fun of some of the guests at their symposium, in Starship Mine the running gag is that Data's new friend is an annoying conversationalist, and in subsequent episodes there seems to be a running gag that Picard & Co. are trying to get out of myriad rendez-vous with Starfleet Command and the Admiralty.

I do kind of like the episode though.

 

[ToddKent]

Just watched it the other day and had a question. They didn't seem to have any problem beaming on and off the Enterprise so why didn't they just beam someone like Riker onto the runabout. Wouldn't that "unfreeze" him? And then they could ask him what the heck was going on.

Did they address this and I missed it?

 

[Silvercrest]

Living in the past would explain most of the things rather perfectly. None of the E-D crew would see our protagonists because they would only "appear on the scene" after the crew had "left". However, the protagonists would sense the light, sound and smell left behind by the crew that had just "left" - they just couldn't create any sort of a feedback, because there was nobody there any more.

That wouldn't stop them from making use of the light, sound, smell and air molecules "left behind", though. While chemical interaction with those molecules would be difficult due to the rapidly decaying chance of feedback, there might be enough of it left to sustain life processes. Not enough to sustain the longterm solidity of walls, but enough to sustain the brief electron transfers necessary for oxidation. It might be like breathing thin mountain air, but it could still be breathing.

Until the Langoliers show up.

 

[Borjis]

This is my favorite episode of all of TNG.

I always laugh at Data's "head shake of confusion" after Picard
imitates the lecturer.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Troi is hilarious when she imitates the scientist who was hitting on her and asking her help with 'research'. The look on her face, plus the accent, just nailed it.

 

[Cali]

I caught the end of this episode on BBC2 at something like half past midnight the other day; I've got in on DVD though so I'm going to try and watch it this weekend because I liked what I saw. Although I also wondered why they didn't beam someone off the Enterprise to the runabout.

 

[Sakrysta]

"Hello, DIANE. I understand you're an empath. I'm a very *wink* sensitive man myself. I'm doing a study on inter-species mating rituals. Would you care to join me in some empirical research?"

For some reason I have absolutely no trouble remembering that line.

I just watched this the other day, and for the first time I really looked at the alien/Romulan female. She looked a lot like Pat Tallman - does anyone know if it was her? Whoever played the role was uncredited as far as I can tell.