ÿþ<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Timescape</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR=#000000"> <TABLE ALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="595" CELLSPACING="0" CELLPADDING="3" BORDER="0"> <TR> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="150" VALIGN=MIDDLE ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="STTNG Pictures/Next-Gen-Logo.gif" WIDTH="175" HEIGHT="117" BORDER="0" ALT="Star Trek The Next Generation Logo"></TD> <TD WIDTH="245" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="3" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"><B>'Timescape'</B><BR><BR><FONT SIZE="3">(Story Code 251)<BR>by Brannon Braga</TD> <TD ROWSPAN="2" WIDTH="200" VALIGN=CENTER ALIGN=CENTER><IMG SRC="STTNG Pictures/STTNG S6 Cast.jpg" WIDTH="200" HEIGHT="145" ALT="Star Trek The Next Generation Cast"></TD> </TR> </TABLE> <P ALIGN=CENTER><FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> Commander Riker orders the <I>U.S.S. Enterprise</I> to respond to a distress call from a Romulan vessel with engine failure; meanwhile, Captain Picard, Lieutenant LaForge, Lieutenant Commander Data and Counselor Troi are returning from a conference in one of the Runabouts. While discussing the event of the meeting, everyone except Troi suddenly freezes for a few seconds, before returning to normal; Troi tells the others of the incident, only to learn that she herself was just frozen in time for over three minutes. Other strange events occur: the starboard nacelle fails, and instruments show that it has been in continuous operation for over forty-seven days; and when Picard attempts to examine some fruit that has turned rotten, his fingernails instantly grow half an inch. Using a tricorder, they discover that they have encountered a time bubble, a phenomenon that rapidly accelerates the normal passage of time; the vessel is surrounded by dozens of these temporal pockets, each moving time at a different rate; it seems that the space-time continuum in the area has been shattered, and the trail leads to their rendezvous point with the <I>Enterprise</I>. Carefully wending their way through the bubbles, Picard and the others find their ship - frozen in time, and the target of a Romulan warbird s disruptor beam; strangely, a second beam also goes from the <I>Enterprise</I> to the warbird's engineering section. Data and LaForge adapt the emergency transporter armbands to generate skin-tight force-fields, which will isolate them from the effects of the temporal effect, enabling them to beam across to the <I>Enterprise</I>; in Sickbay, Troi finds Doctor Crusher being hit point-blank by a Romulan s disruptor, while Picard discovers that three Romulans were being beamed aboard by Lieutenant Worf. Investigating Engineering, they find the source of the power surge: a warp core breach in progress. Data determines that time is not frozen as they first believed, but is moving forward at an infinitesimal rate - and he estimates that the explosion will consume the <I>Enterprise</I> in just over nine hours. Unless the four of them can find a way to reverse the temporal anomaly, the <I>Enterprise</I> and all aboard her will be destroyed& <BR><BR> Patrick Stewart (<B>Captain Jean-Luc Picard</B>), Jonathan Frakes (<B>Commander William Thomas Riker</B>), LeVar Burton (<B>Chief Engineer Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge</B>), Michael Dorn (<B>Security Chief Lieutenant Worf</B>), Gates McFadden (<B>Doctor Beverly Crusher</B>), Marina Sirtis (<B>Councelor Deanna Troi</B>), Brent Spiner (<B>Lieutenant Commander Data</B>), Michael Bofshever (<B>Romulan / Alien</B>), John DeMita (<B>Romulan</B>), Joel Fredericks (<B>Engineer</B>) <BR><BR><B>Directed by Adam Nimoy <BR>Produced by Peter Lauritson <BR>Co-Produced by Ronald D. Moore <BR>Co-Executive Producer Jeri Taylor <BR>Executive Producers Michael Piller and Rick Berman </B> <BR><BR><B>TX:</B> <FONT COLOR="#99CCFF" SIZE="2" FACE="Arial, Helvetica, Comic Sans"> <BR>14th June, 1993 <BR><BR><B>Notes:</B> <BR>*Featuring Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Commander William Thomas Riker, Chief Engineer Lieutenant Geordi La Forge, Security Chief Lieutenant Worf, Doctor Beverly Crusher, Councelor Deanna Troi and Lieutenant Commander Data <BR><BR><BR> </BODY> </HTML>