Cause and Effect (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

• Kelsey Grammer: Morgan Bateson

Déjà vu is the 118th episode of the U.S. television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was broadcast in the U.S. in March 1992 for the first time in Germany in April 1994. It is about a time loop in which the crew of the Enterprise unit and at the end of the ship is destroyed.

Action

The Enterprise is the first Starfleet starship in space area " Typhon - expansion " on the way to map this.

The teaser shows how a fraction of the warp core is imminent after a collision of the Enterprise. While Captain Picard asks the team to abandon the ship, the Enterprise explodes.

Worf, Data, Riker and Crusher play together a game of poker, the Crusher wins. Then summoned to the infirmary, you get the symptoms of their patients there La Forge familiar. In the sleeping Dr. Crusher hears many, unintelligible voices. A meeting of the staff officers the next morning to be interrupted when the Enterprise encounters a distortion in the space-time continuum, which can be to maneuver the ship. An emerging from this spaceship is on a collision course for the Enterprise. A proposal Rikers to bring the enterprise by reducing the pressure in the shuttle bay to another course, follows Picard not and can implement for Data's proposal to divert the foreign ship with a tractor beam. The project failed, because the ships collide, making the right drive nacelle of the Enterprise is torn. An imminent breach of the warp core by pushing off to prevent the same, fails. Riker orders the crew to go to the escape pods. While Picard asks the team to abandon the ship, the Enterprise explodes.

Worf, Data, Riker and Crusher play together a game of poker. Here Riker and Crusher have the idea that Riker 's bluffing. After Crusher was launched in the infirmary, now believes her side and La Forge to have experienced this situation before. Crusher tells Picard then by her déjà vu suspicions confirmed this. A meeting of the staff officers the next morning to be interrupted when the Enterprise encounters a distortion in the space-time continuum, which can be to maneuver the ship. Collision and explosion of enterprise occur as well, as already shown.

Worf, Data, Riker and Crusher play together a game of poker. It has next to Riker and Worf Crusher now the feeling of deja vu, Crusher says the values ​​of the given Data tickets in advance. Called to sickbay, Crusher La Forge informs that she was reported from all over the ship on deja vu. An investigation Datas and La Forges on the importance of perceived among others Crusher votes shows that it is the 1000 Voices of the crew members of the Enterprise. Three of them, the two can extract; from them it appears that the Enterprise is caught in a temporal causality loop, and that the crew asks Picard to leave the vessel. After the staff officers have found that it is echoes of the past with the voices, modified La Forge Data so that it will allow this to send information in the next iteration of the time loop and the crew of such a possible way out the loop to be informed. Shortly before the explosion of the Enterprise Data makes use of this possibility actually use.

Worf, Data, Riker and Crusher play together a game of poker, all except Data guess the values ​​of the given cards. Now, all but Data feel to have all before. From perceived by several people votes staff officers to extract the most frequently occurring number three, which they identify as a message from the previous iteration. During the occurrence of the distortion and the foreign ship Data recognizes in Rikers badges of rank the importance of the number three and therefore the proposal will lead to reduction in pressure in the shuttle ramp. Thus, the collision of the two vessels is prevented.

Recognizing the bridge officers that they have escaped the temporal distortion and that they were in it for 17 days. The contrary Come ship Captain be identified as the Starfleet starship USS Bozeman, a 80 years earlier, in 2278 which took place in the temporal anomaly ship.

Reception

The U.S. film magazine Cinefantastique rated the episode with three out of four stars. It praised the idea of the episode and the teaser as an interesting sci-fi imagination. However, the resolution was not credible as a deus -ex - machina situation.