2x13 Time Squared - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

Star Trek: The Next Generation

- Episode 02x13

Episode: 02x13
Title: Time Squared
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 139
First Aired: Apr. 03, 1989

Season 2 » Episode #13 - Time Squared

Star Trek: The Next Generation - 02x13 Time Squared

Summary: When Enterprise comes upon a shuttlecraft adrift in space, they bring it onboard. What they discover shocks them greatly. The shuttlecraft is from their Enterprise, and the pilot is none other than Jean-Luc Picard himself, or at least a duplicate of him. This Picard is semi conscious, and doesn’t seem to know there are crew around him. Dr. Pulaski determines that this Picard is in a state of temporal flux from a point in time several hours in their future.After checking the shuttle’s logs, they see that this Picard left his Enterprise just before it was destroyed, near a massive space vortex. The crew and their Picard must determine how to avoid this future event before it happens again, to them, and their Enterprise is destroyed, too.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Captain Jean-Luc Picard	played by Patrick Stewart
Lieutenant Geordi La Forge	played by LeVar Burton
Counselor Deanna Troi	played by Marina Sirtis
Lt. Commander Data	played by Brent Spiner
Wesley Crusher	played by Wil Wheaton
Doctor Pulaski	played by Diana Muldaur

Episode Quotes

Season 2 / Episode 13: - Time Squared

Captain Jean-Luc Picard: When you say it wants you, you mean it's still you, only you, and it's not me?
Future Jean-Luc Picard: [looks at him, irritated] You're confusing me.

Season 2 / Episode 13: - Time Squared

Commander William T. Riker: One of your strengths is your ability to... evaluate the dynamics of a situation, and then take a definitive, pre-emptive step, take charge. Now you're frustrated because you not only can't see the solution, you can't even define the problem.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Hm... Go on.
Commander William T. Riker: What we're facing is neither a person nor a place, at least not yet - it's time.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: You're saying I should just sit down, shut up and wait.
Commander William T. Riker: Now, I wouldn't have put it exactly like that.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Not something I'd do easily.
Commander William T. Riker: Your pungent flaw.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Yes, perhaps it is.

[More Quotes]

MISTAKES/GOOFS

CONT: When Enterprise is flying into the vortex La Forge is shown holding onto the console to keep from falling down, but O'Brien in the shuttle bay is shown standing straight and tall without difficulty.
FAKE: One of the last times Picard A goes to sick bay, Troi follow him in a subsequent turbolift. Yet when Picard A arrives in sick bay (after a commercial break) Troi is already there.
FAKE: In the very first sickbay scene, the "real" Captain Picard is momentarily transparent, and you can see the corridor wall through him.
MISC: When Picard A determines to stop Picard B from getting into the shuttle he kills him, and then calls for Dr. Pulaski.
CONT: When Picard leaves the bridge to go to see his duplicate in sick bay, Picard leaves first, then Troi follows him. By the time Picard reaches sick bay Troi is already there.

TRIVIA

Originally meant to be a two-parter, with "Q" (John de Lancie) the force behind the time anomaly.
During the filming of this episode, future writer Ronald D. Moore had a tour of the sets, and handed in his script for The Bonding.
The original title was "Time to the Second", however, the final title would mathematically be written "Time²". Both titles refer to the power of 2 in reference to the present and future Captain Picard.
Shuttle #5, the El Baz, which Picard used to escape the Enterprise, is named after Farouk El Baz, a geologist who helped train the Apollo astronaut Command Module Pilots to observe the Moon from orbit.
First time the destruction of the Enterprise-D, a Galaxy-class starship, is witnessed.

Episode Screenshots (From Season 2)

KEYWORDS:

» Back to Star Trek: The Next Generation TV Show