Timescape

A rift in the space-time continuum freezes the Enterprise and a Romulan warbird in battle… or so it looks to Picard, Data, Troi and LaForge from the outside. When they dig a little deeper, they find all that timey-wimey stuff may not be exactly as it seems. Plus, the Enterprise blows up real good. Timescape goes into the Mission Log. “Imperial Battleship, halt the flow of time!” — You guys watch WAY too much sci-fi! Too bad TNG never had the budget to get The Hoff and plastic pants. Ah well… Surely the Hofflessness and plastic-pantslessness (not to be confused with ordinary pantslessness, which is fine) are two of TNG’s more consistently laudable qualities. I was bothered by Riker throwing the phaser to Dr. Crusher, too…I retconned it by reasoning that Riker probably took a quick look to make sure the phaser wasn’t charged and was therefore safe to toss around. I realized towards the end of your discussion that this episode has similarities to the one where Geordi and Ro are out of phase and travel back and forth to a Romulan ship, and we discover that some of the Romulans are out of phase too, and can see them… I think that’s why the viewer is alarmed seeing that the aliens who appear to be Romulans are not stuck in time; it makes you think of that previous moment. Love that you made a Starcrash reference. Makes me proud in an odd way. As for the episode, it’s pretty solid, certainly one of the better season 6 eps. sigh….potential but…the unseen space critters trope, just got a little old. “Home Soil”, “Evolution”, “The Loss”…..assuming the shape of a Romulan? Convenient. The “Romulans” who were unaffected also reminded me of “The Next Phase”. Finally, we can all thank this episode for bringing us this meme. That being said, it was all executed really well. One point – do I remember correctly that the ship was originally supposed to be the Captain’s Yacht, but reusing the Runabout set was more economical than a new model and new sets? First off…looking at the schedule of upcoming shows, it’s really hitting me that we’re almost done with TNG. I remember Farpoint like it was just yesterday. I like the “situation/enemy/etc. is not what you think it is” strand running through the story, though I wonder if they should’ve lampshaded it for the audience a bit more just to remind them that there was more to it than wibbly wobbly, timey-wimey. looks like she had a stroke….ahhhh this was her imitating and winking….not sure what the caption means? Has one series ever utilized the ‘Captain’s Yach’? Seems lazy. I mean all those shots of Voyager underneath and never one story with it? To be frank, and hopefully not insulting in any way, you guys are guys. Your interior alarms go off for entirely different–and legitimate–reasons than ours do. Most of the men that have harmed me have been white middle class men. At lot of the men that have been kind to me have been white men. Same goes for women. It’s gratifying to hear John and Ken mention that it made them uncomfortable because for a woman getting the pick-up line that Deanna got, it’s not just a matter of, “No thanks, I’m busy,” and the guy leaves us alone. When that happens, it’s great. Stress goes way down. However, that’s usually the rare Hollywood version. When it doesn’t happen and he persists, we have to run through our various tactics of getting away from the guy who is making us uncomfortable, and our lizard brains are in high gear. (There is a shining good reason why we try to travel in packs.) When I got a flat tire and two guys pulled over to help me change said tire and then went on their merry way, what was a crappy day turned into an awesome day and I was grateful for their help and kindness. Fortunately, I have more experiences of people being kind than being jerks, but it’s the jerks that we remember. You can tell yourself that all day, but that’s simply not true. Not only is it not true of the “women have to worry more about men in general than terrorists”