6x01 Time's Arrow, Part II - Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode Guide

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Episode: 06x01
Title: Time's Arrow, Part II
Type: Regular Episode
Production Code: 227
First Aired: Sep. 21, 1992

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Star Trek: The Next Generation - 06x01 Time's Arrow, Part II

Summary: Stardate: 46001.3 The crew finds that a strange alien race, in a different dimensional plane, are feeding on human essences from old San Francisco.

Who appeared in this episode?

Guest Stars:

Captain Jean-Luc Picard	played by Patrick Stewart
Lt. Commander Geordi La Forge	played by LeVar Burton
Doctor Beverly Crusher	played by Gates McFadden
Counselor Deanna Troi	played by Marina Sirtis
Lt. Commander Data	played by Brent Spiner
Samuel Clemens	played by Jerry Hardin
Mrs. Carmichael	played by Pamela Kosh
Policeman	played by William Boyett
Jack London	played by Michael Aron

	Season 6 / Episode 1: - Time's Arrow, Part II Samuel Clemens, aka Mark Twain: Any place that doesn't stock a good cigar doesn't rank high in my book.
	Season 6 / Episode 1: - Time's Arrow, Part II Guinan: [on seeing Data's severed head in the cave] What's that? Captain Jean-Luc Picard: That's history fulfilling itself.

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MISTAKES/GOOFS

PLOT: Where did Data get a horse drawn carriage from? And where did Picard and the crew not only get clothing (nurse and policemen's uniforms), but lodgings as well without any money?
FAKE: When the Enterprise crew beam back up to the ship with Samuel Clemens, as the transport starts, Samuel Clemens looks up and puts up his arms defensively. As he rematerializes on the Enterprise, he is looking down instead of up.
CONT: In the scene where the crew leaves the cave, Data has been zapped by the male ophidian thus losing his head. The scene shows Data's head but not his body. After seeing his female counterpart mortally wounded, the ophidian opens a time rift and flees through it. Picard orders the crew to follow the ophidian. No one is carrying Data's body through the rift. No verbal orders by Picard to carry Data with the crew were given. The next scene shows the crew back in their present on Dividia II with Data's body is lying next to them. They all beamed up to the Enterprise with no explanation of how Data's body returned from the 19th Century.
DATE: Like Guinan in the previous episode, its doubtful that La Forge, a Black man in 19th Century America could walk around without having to contend with the racism of the time.
PLOT: Data spends the rest of the time on the show with a head 500 years older than the rest of his body. But the age of it never seems to affect him in any way, and its never even mentioned again. It's unknown whether or not the writers erased that plot point from canon. Of if La Forge used 24th Century technology to bring it up to specs.

TRIVIA

The new morphing effect used on the cane's snakes head was created to clarify the effect seen in Part 1.
In the Season 3 episode Booby Trap, Guinan told La Forge she was attracted to bald men because a long time ago, one was very kind to her. She may have been referring to Picard's actions in this episode, where he saves her life in the 19th Century.
When Mark Twain learns that he's on a spaceship, he asks Troi if they've ever "run into Halley's Comet." This is a reference to the fact that Halley's Comet was visible in the sky both on the day of Twain's birth and his death.
In the original script, Guinan claimed to be from a well known Boston family, and that she was a close relative of Judge Truman Williams. Clemens checked her story, and received a telegram from Williams who had never heard of Guinan.
Alexander Enberg (the reporter), the son of producer Jeri Taylor, later played Taurik in the Season 7 episode Lower Decks. He then played another Vulcan in the recurring role of Vorik on Star Trek Voyager.