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Star Trek:TNG 315-316 (Patreon)

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Yesterday's Enterprise, The Offspring

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Tinfoilnation

This season is so *ridiculously* stacked with "Top 10 All Time Episodes" candidates and Yesterday's Enterprise is one of them.... and it's finally here. Woot!

Dan

Yay it's like it's Christmas or something!

Mastervodo

Woo Hoo! Been waiting all week for this couplet of Epic Star Trek Videos! Time to Gasp and Cry! Great episodes from here until the end of this season! Star Trek Day! (or... Sssssss...fuck Day as it is affectionately called)

Mastervodo

I have never heard the theory that Guinan is a Time Lord.

Mike W

Timey Wimey. Love it 😊

Ca$hWednesday

I frickin love Yesterday's Enterprise. Fav episode of the entire series. It kind of does everything for me.

Colin Reid

Happy Christmas everyone.

Edina Lewis

“We must strive to better than we are. It does not matter that we can never reach our ultimate goal, the effort yields its own rewards” - One of the most important lessons I ever learned. Thank you Star Trek!!

DanManMtn

Though they made a big deal of Guinan’s intuition, there was more than that. They know time travel can change timelines so her intuition makes sense to them. Her senses were only one part of the puzzle. It started the conversation, but the logic of it is what swayed them. Once that was established, her insight on Tasha was easily believed. Also, there were early talks to have Wesley’s head blown off his body in the final battle, but that obviously got scrapped. Great reaction!

Spacedone

I'm sure some writer discussed the idea of having Worf as one of the attacking Klingons but it's better that they didn't switch focus to show the events from the Klingon perspective, makes the ending more tense. Also, there's Worf backstory reasons why he probably wouldn't have been there since he was raised as an orphan by a human family (as already mentioned in previous seasons) but I won't say more because I don't remember how much detail they went into. Also notable that Troi completely disappears from the alternate timeline. Either there's no call for a counsellor on a war ship (she'd be on a Starbase treating casualties for PTSD or something) or the change of events led to her not being in Starfleet for some reason. With 40 billion dead in the Federation, maybe Betazed was destroyed or annexed by the Klingon Empire?

Maxi_Rad (edited)

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2026-10-19 05:00 Is anyone else having the same issue watching with your own copy? I may have to use a VPN for Paramount+. Their version, obviously no fault of theirs, seems to have a Paramount logo that mine doesn't that makes syncing just a little more difficult. I'm still in for the long haul though, it is absolutely worth being able to watch TNG as intended on a CRT. It looks sooo pretty.
2025-12-24 14:56

Opti_Frog

These two episodes are both fantastic. "He's biting that female" is an example of perfect line delivery. And what are the odds that director Frakes improvised his walk-on walk-off appearance on the day to get some kissing action? 😅 Lal telling Troi that she is scared always gives me goose bumps all over.

Mastervodo

That Admiral in Offspring can go suck a di...lithium crystal. His BS argument that the unique and valuable androids are "too valuable" to be in a dangerous place like a starship should have been called out. Then why is Data on one? If the Enterprise is destroyed for some reason and Data dies - they would be in the same situation than if both Dada and Lal were destroyed in the same accident. So, no, it's NOT a logical reason to take Lal away. And, it's not Starfleet's or that Admiral's CHOICE. They don't own Data, and they certainly don't own Lal. And yes, that Admiral scared Lal to death. Maybe something else might have come along to scare her, or her development into feelings may have caused the same failure. But, that's like saying, oh well... something would have killed you eventually, so it doesn't matter if I killed you in some way now. In law terms - if someone jumps off the top of a tall building, and you shoot them dead at the 3rd floor on their way down - you are still guilty of murder. Fuck that Admiral. There should have been repercussions for him, and serious ones, so that no one ever tried that bullshit of fucking around with Data or any other android ever again like they tried doing. Yar. Love Yar. Yar Har fiddle dee dee.

Joe Concepts

Must be great making a TV series and having back to back episodes like this. This is why people say this season is when the show really arrives.

Joe Concepts

The point is, you should figure Guinan can be trusted because Picard trusts her so much.

Polecat21

I feel the conversation between Guinan and Picard covers all anyone needs to know. We know they’ve known each other for a long time. She points out a few things like “have you ever known me to do" this or that. This is why he trusts her. We don’t need specific examples. As to her ability to sense something is ‘off', well this is the episode where we discover she has the ability to sense something is ‘off’. This is so common in every type of sci-fi show. We don’t usually get a list of abilities for each character in episode one. We are never told this is what they can do and this is what they can’t do. We discover it as we go.

blerbaberpaterb

'suppose to' is a strange thing to say to someone sharing their opinion and perception of things. its entirely subjective. if he didnt feel it he didnt feel it. theres no such a thing as "suppose to feel this way".

PIG

So… you DON’T like the admiral?

PIG

Are you using a hard copy? DVD or BluRay?

PIG

RED is absolutely on point, way too cute. I hate it when the writers wink at you. Brings you out of the story.

Fedora The Explorar

the line "I will allow my child to choose the gender and appearance of their own choosing" hits so much harder nowadays. Woke dad Data.

Zinphad

I think of Guinan as kind of a Gandalf character. Gandalf does not show how powerful he is through most of the books, but it is accepted that he is based on how other interact with him.

Thomas Yanez

I like how Denise Crosby acted her character differently, too - in that she, you know, acted well. If she had done as good a job back in the first season, I would have regretted losing Tasha.

mpd

I'm glad Lt. Castillo got a chance to take command at the end. He worked hard his whole life, paid his dues, and now it's Shooter's turn

Andrew R

George really really struggles with being comfortable with ambiguity. Guinan not being fully fleshed out on camera (and any character for that matter) is supposed to convey depth of the TNG universe. It's a feature not a bug. Having every detail spoon fed to you is so boring.

DonkyDave

the step up in quality in Season 3 is so noticeable, there's so many bangers. And it's only a few weeks until the finale.... ;)

Life in the cave of Garanoga

Best part of Yesterday's Enterprise is that it was a fan submission during the writer's strike. Written by Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Stillwell as a direct response to Tasha's unceremonious death.

Joel

Data's comment about LINEAR time got me thinking... I won't say anymore, but it definitely got me thinking

Paul Verburg

Interesting. I’m always disappointed when I hear Data tell Lal that she *must* choose a gender. To me, it sounds like the choice must be made ASAP and agender is not an option.

gfixler

I came to write a similar thing. George knows the rules of good stories, but I also think it's okay at times to bend them, though I don't think he likes that. I like it here, because it's Guinan, and I love Guinan. We do have some sense of her. She's the wildcard. She's the vague one that lets us do some things we maybe couldn't, but she's also fairly consistent, I think. She's very old. She's very wise. She knows Q. She's from a mysterious species. The things she's done so far are not crazier than aliens we've met (like the Traveler). She's said in a previous episode she's from a race of listeners (in "Evolution," the one where Dr. Kelso upsets the nanites), which sounds like a race of people who learn a tremendous amount in their long lives, and it also makes her a natural as a bartender. We can derive some things, like that she's maybe in tune with the universe in a unique way, and her wisdom in many chats with the crew in Ten Forward has seemed to show that many times. In this episode, she didn't have full power, at all, so it wasn't full deus ex. The captain said what she was giving him wasn't good enough, and she said it's just gonna have to be. She could have been imagining it all. She just felt like something was off. It wasn't even really about that to me, though. The important point was that, even though we're missing the exposition George wanted, that she has this specific power, before it's used (which I get, but can also be boring at times—I like to be surprised, whimsically, now and then, like when Data tore open some doors, and I was like "Oh, shit, he's that strong?!"), this episode is expositional in terms of the relationship between her and Picard. He REALLY values her judgment. He even chose her over his second in command. He cut off Riker to say he knew what his objections were, and that he was going with Guinan's advice. I remember as a kid watching this and thinking "Oh crap, Guinan is really important." Then I started paying more attention to her, and hoping for more episodes with her. I'm not saying this with any foreknowledge/spoilers; as a kid, this episode made me see that Picard must really trust her advice on things, more than I thought before. That was interesting, even more so than this power. Like yeah, the power is cool, but Picard is just gonna sacrifice the entire ship on her hunch? Who is this woman? No one even remembers this battle, because they have no reason to. They just move on with their lives after the timeline repairs itself. It wasn't important in the end (it was existentially important, but nobody realizes that, except us now). I can easily decide that Guinan felt things this strongly, because this was such a critical point in time, such a massive change to the timeline. Presumably she's gone 20 years not necessarily feeling much, because she doesn't feel anything until the portal opens right outside her window, and she looks at it for a bit. It's here, at the point of radical change, that, however she works, she tuned into the wrongness of it all, but it manifested as "This doesn't feel right." not some big plan, or specific knowledge (except that we shouldn't be at war, and that Tasha died meaninglessly). Personally, I loved it, then and now. Granted, I grew up with it, and love it, so I'm likely giving it more of a pass than I would were I in George's position, and I don't mind his view on it at all. I just feel like he's overemphasizing that she has this power, when it's not really the salient bit in the story anyway. In real life, I've learned about powers randomly all the time. I've known friends for years, only to find out crazy things about them at random times, like that one friend is an amazing writer—I was gobsmacked how good she was, and told her she needed to write novels—or that another used to be baby-sat by Fergie, from the Black Eyed Peas, before she was famous.

gfixler

I was thinking the same thing. Gandalf! He dies and resurrects, kind of out of nowhere, and changes colors(!?).

Liquor & Swords

Thirty years of watching TNG and I never thought to consider that Data now has the memory of kissing Riker..... Jesus, George.!

WastedPo

Regarding Yesterday's Enterprise: I think George is overthinking his objection about how much they trust Guinan's say-so. There are other factors than just Guinan here. George totally gets hung up on this notion they're all acting purely on faith. Except they're not. For one, it's highly anomalous that a ship from the past would suddenly appear through a rift in time. So even without Guinan there to tell them it needs to go back, I'd think the natural gut reaction is to say that the ship from the past should go back in time where it belongs. It would frankly be more strange to decide that the ship from 22 years ago should stay in the future. They also knew what that ship was doing when they went through the rift, and Picard speculates that had it stayed in the past, it could've altered history for the better. This is even before Guinan has said anything to Picard, I believe. And Picard later reveals that they're all screwed in the present anyway; so that's another reason for him to send the ship back. Guinan didn't tell Picard that the war with the Klingons is going badly, that's something that is independently true. Also, I believe Yar would go to the other ship. It's not just totally believing in Guinan, but the fact that she knows the other ship is now vastly understaffed. So duty compels her to help them.

James W.

Back to back, top tier episodes for me. I didn't like TNG when it was airing, I was more preoccupied with other parts of the nerdosphere. As an adult I came to appreciate and it is because of episodes like these. I am certainly becoming more sappy as I trudge reluctantly into middle-age, but regardless of the fact that have seen Offspring at least 10 times over the years, probably more, I get choked up every time. It starts when Lal first holds Data's hand and the look Brent Spiner gives her. It isn't quite an emotion but you can tell Data is positively effected. The only thing I can relate it too is when one of the feral cats in my neighborhood doesn't run immediately when it sees me. I have no desire to pet it but I don't want it to be afraid either, so their tacit understanding that I am not a major threat is reassuring. Anyway, good episodes.

Fedora The Explorar

yeah but you should still start somewhere and choose and develop your identity from here

gfixler

I was just going to comment that now Data knows what it's like to kiss Riker, and immediately as I thought that, George said it 😆

JoeNotCharles

Yeah, Data gives a rational and convincing explanation for why the Enterprise-C sacrificing itself could prevent the war, based only on what they know of the situation and the Klingons. It's not just trust in Guinan. The big moment of trust is allowing Tasha to go back, and that's more about acceding to Tasha's wishes. I though Patrick Stewart played that beautifully - he didn't just accept it, he took it very seriously before he relented. (As much as possible with the pacing of a TV episode.)

gfixler

I say we hang him, THEN we kill him!

JoeNotCharles

I think that was the intent, and subbing Geordie for Worf was a last-minute substitution when someone realized Worf is on the bridge at that point, and cutting to some later time when he comes off-duty would be confusing. I couldn't tell myself, but I've seen trivia saying Geordi's in his alternate-timeline uniform at the end, as a blooper. A last-minute substitution would make it easier for that to slip by continuity.

gfixler

I remember seeing one of the TNG films in the theater, and there was some sexy moment with Riker (not really a spoiler with him), and my friend leaned over to me and said "I didn't know Frakes directed this one!" 😆

gfixler

Yeah, I really felt it when Riker was talking to him over video comm, and Picard was reviewing something on a padd, responding, but not looking at him. It felt really out of character, at least in prime universe. Picard always gives you his full attention over a view screen.

Eversharpe

Yeah but it's not that Guinan just knows Q, it's also that Q was surprised to see her, and that he was not happy at all to see her there, almost but not quite afraid and definitely uncertain of her intent. Also, keep in mind that Guinan was not exactly afraid of Q either.

gfixler

Sssss...Fuck! Day (observed)

p0sthum4n

On behalf of all your Jewish patrons, thank you for still uploading today 😏 The entire world is shut down

Brian Moore

Two of the best episodes of Trek in a row! What a fantastic Christmas gift to us all.

JoeNotCharles

The characterizations in Yesterday's Enterprise are SO GOOD. Both the acting and writing. Everyone's a little more stressed and short-tempered, or at least more businesslike - even Wesley. But it's not exaggerated: Picard still has fatherly conversations with his crew when he has the opportunity. It feels like the same characters in a more stressful situation, not characters who were fundamentally changed. Except for Data, who's absolutely identical. I actually thought Brent Spiner was playing him as softer and more compassionate at first, but I think that's just by contrast with the other characters. I also "like" that Wesley isn't just on the ship, he's a full uniformed Ensign. Because yeah, he's a 17-year-old recruit. That happens. Old enough to go to war, not old enough to vote. Very subtle commentary, and I think it's deliberate, given that they could have written him out like they did with Troi.

funky weapon

"Thank you for my life" always gets me. goddamn this show is great.

WastedPo

I think all your complaints about "The Offspring" are valid. (I myself feel that the ending is too rushed. I'm also very conscious of the fact that Lal "had" to malfunction not just for dramatic purposes, but because episodic TV from this era almost never made major cast additions in the middle of a season.) That said, the good in it (particularly Hallie Todd's performance as Lal) is so good, that it still manages to be one of my favorite TNG episodes, despite its shortcomings.

gfixler

Hallie Todd (born Hallie Eckstein), who played Lal, comes from an acting family. Her stepdad is the guy who was selling tribbles in The Trouble With Tribbles (Guy Raymond, born Raymond Guyver). Her father is producer/writer George Eckstein. Her mother is Ann Morgan Guilbert, who played Millie on The Dick Van Dyke show. Among many other roles, Hallie also played Jo McGuire, the mother of Lizzie McGuire on that series.

Happy Hanukkah

AI search: "Guinan is a Time Lord". AI response: "The idea that Guinan from Star Trek: The Next Generation is a Time Lord, as in the characters from Doctor Who, is a popular fan theory but not supported by official canon."

NotlobParrot

Last Timey-Wimey episode in TNG was Time Squared, yeah?

Three Dalmations

I feel differently to George about Guinan, but in admittedly contradictory ways. For me, the real complaint, (which George didn’t raise), is that Guinan’s character is the trope of “magical black person who guides the white person”. Then again, in the 80s and early 90s there was so little representation, that even tropey characters -while not great- were better than nothing. However, I also didn’t experience it as a failure that Guinan’s specific power was not explained. To me, we’ve had enough backstory for her to register as a species with unusual powers, so it doesn’t seem strange that she can sense a difference when the timeline is altered. To me, it doesn’t mean that she has specific “time shift sensitivity powers”. It just means that she’s has unusual/non-human sensitivities so she managed to sense this change. And Picard knows this about her and has already learnt to trust her over their many years of friendship together which were referenced in the episode.

blerbaberpaterb

well to be fair, in the movie the Griffin didnt just say "i dont know but you gotta just trust me". he gave exact detailed explainations of "if this happens then this is the universe where x happens." we and the characters also literally got to see his point of view when he included K and J into his vision. what George is trying to point at i think, is that all Guinan was able to provide was "just trust me, i cant tell you more or give you any proof, but you gotta trust me". which is 0% detail compared to Griffin.

blerbaberpaterb

i mean you saying something being the way its "suppose to be" doesnt mean it 100% will land the same way for everyone. its a subjective experience, it just happen to land differently for him and he shared his thoughts. he was 100% fine with Mulholland drive, but not this. and the former is much more ambiguous. its not a fault or wrong, its just different.

blerbaberpaterb

nah thats an unfair comparison, with Gandalf he literally spent 50 years researching the ring before telling Frodo to go on a highly suicidal mission. he didnt just see a ring and said "it feels off, i cant tell you why, but just trust me" and then Frodo just says "okay yeah let me pack my things and go to Mordor". additionally, they established prior history. Gandalf had a whole thing with Bilbo that Frodo was aware of. there was a history the characters were aware of that is also related to the new journey. not to mention with the Hobbit, when Gandalf first showed up and no one knew who he was. he had to put a lot of effort to get Bilbo out the door. he didnt just show up and say "nah trust me bro" and BIlbo just accepted it.

blerbaberpaterb

i mean Lal was at character creation screen lmao. but seriously, the goal was for her to blend in with the crew, and this was a show from the 80s where asking the audience to accept a human thats anything but M/F would be asking a lot.

blerbaberpaterb

i think what George was struggling to convey is exactly this point though, that hes being told to just trust her cause a character said so, rather than being shown. you know, show dont tell golden rule.

blerbaberpaterb

having a character say "i dont know why but just trust me" is not a demonstration of a characters ability though. Geordi is a trust worthy engineer because we get to see him do engineering stuff. imagine if the first time we see him he just says "the engines being weird, i cant explain more but we gotta turn around". thats not establishing a character as having this ability. i think what George was wishing for is something like a scene where Guinan said "in a different future you would've done XYZ" or whatever to hint at this ability. thus the men in black 3 reference.

Henchmen21

Two Phenomenal eps today.

Henchmen21

Also Happy Holidays to George and Simone

Maxi

Using Paramount+

Ian Tellam

Yeah, not only is she not property of Starfleet, she doesn't even work for Starfleet, so they can't order her anywhere. I suppose they could order her off the ship, that's their prerogative, but beyond that it would effectively be kidnapping. Seeing as they even reference Measure of a Man in this episode it's a bit of a weird plot hole - even if I think tonally and thematically the episode does a pretty good job overall.

Ian Tellam

Except episodes like this are showing, the point seemed to be we're not being told explicitly why.

blerbaberpaterb

yes but you understand theres still a massive difference right? like you said, the 'rest of the story where he shows his abilities'. the rest of this story, nothing changes form Guinan aside from "just trust me".

blerbaberpaterb

where in the story or any prior episodes had they shown Guinan have temporal related abilities? all this episode did was tell the audience "Picard trusts her, so everyone does, and so should you"

blerbaberpaterb

i have to also point out by the way, that i dont actually agree with George. but what i dont enjoy seeing is one of this community's favorite hobby in constantly telling S&G that theyre wrong to have their opinion. as if the way we perceive stories are objective, that there is a right and wrong way when it comes to opinions on tv shows. i do not want a repeat of The Expanse, where the 'fans' bully S&G into giving up on the show because theyre being told that they're 'reacting wrong' or 'youre suppose to think and feel what we're telling you.'

blerbaberpaterb

i want to point out by the way that i actually dotn agree with George. but i do not want a repeat of The Expanse, where the 'fans' bully S&G into giving up on the show because theyre being told that they're 'reacting wrong' or 'youre suppose to think and feel what we're telling you.' and that any differing opinion is just them unable to comprehend or watching it incorrectly.

William

Oh, my. Two very good and VERY important episodes of TNG in a row! Happy Holidays to all!

blerbaberpaterb

yes but this episode is a contained story, just like the movie is a contained story. you cant just compare one contained story to one 5th of an other and call it even. that doenst make any sense.

Maxi

Wait, wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff and the mention of two hearts?!

Angzarr

A rare role for Christopher McDonald where he isn't typecast as a complete jerk!

David N

Guinan's powers have always been nebulous at best. I can't explain it, but when I look at you I feel like you don't belong here, you should be dead, oh and it was a pointless death. It seems to be more about what the story needs, and sometimes the story needs mysterious space guidance to point characters in the right direction. I do like her character though and her relationship with Picard is something i've always enjoyed.

TechJJ

These two are among the favorites, at least for me. Current AI is far from being sentient (event AGI will take long while), imagine to get to Lal's level. Star Trek is way ahead of human race in terms of visualizing our technology advancement and bring in social and cultural issues.

TechJJ

The admiral character, while I don't like him either, is making excellent points if I remove my feelings for Data/Lal for a moment. Currently in the news many leaders in big tech doing AI are already asking government must do something to define policies and put AI under controlled environment, as it's impossible to predict how they will "think". or do given control. Even ChatGPT will not give identical answers.

Pokes

The other thing about trusting Guinan that wasn’t really brought up in the discussion is that the other evidence supports what she is saying. Picard, during the briefing, talks about trusting Guinan’s intuition, but admits that it’s not a lot to go on. But then he says, “But regardless, that ship has come 22 years into the future. Who knows how this timeline could have been changed.” Data also talks about how the Enterprise-C’s willingness to die fighting for the survival of a Klingon colony could have resulted to greatly different relations between the two sides. In short, it wasn’t just Guinan’s word they were going on. There was logic behind what she was saying, there were many of the Enterprise-C crew who were already wanting to go back and fight to get back to their loved ones, and Picard’s words to Captain Garrett about Starfleet’s inevitable defeat was the last tipping point to convince them to return.

ScotchBeard78

Oh my god, I wasn't even paying attention and this dropping and giving me Cinebinge reacting to "Yesterday's Enterprise" on Christmas Eve while I'm high in my bedroom having put my extended family "to bed" is like the single greatest gift I could imagine. Cinebinge, I love you, I continue to love you, thank you for being all the things I want a reaction channel to be: a soft, warm, charming space to slip into when I come home and the world's been a bit shit. Can't wait to nuzzle down and spend a couple hours watching Next Gen with you two. Merry Christmas! xoxo

Gwydify

We also know that Q was not happy to see Guinan suggesting they have crossed paths before. As Q could kill anyone he disliked and the fact that he didn't/couldn't remove Guinan certainly confirms that Guinan has talents of her own. There is also the amusing fan theory that Guinan is Q's mother. This is due to a random comment she made in a past episode where she stated that she had lots of children and all but one turned out ok.

Simon Pegged Me

Totally agree: these measure-of-a-man type of episodes drive me nuts. Data was his own person when he applied to Starfleet Academy. His personhood was established by a board when they determined he was sentient and accepted him. It was certified by his career as a command officer, training to command other sentient beings, rising through the ranks to become the second in command of the flagship of Starfleet. To me, it's beyond belief that a commander (in Measure of a Man) or admiral in the science division can put themselves above the law and place Data into Starfleet servitude whenever research dictates it. Maybe they should stop calling him an android. He's not. He isn't a machine nor a robot. He's a sentient being, a synthetic humanoid. If they changed his title, maybe they'd remember that he's a species unto himself. Other than that, great episode.

Simon Pegged Me

My question about the admiral is what was he doing at the end? He asks Data if he can assist him, but when we next see him, he says about Data, "At the end, his hands were moving faster than I could see them." Then, how were you helping?

David Szoke

Guinan is a curious one. Very old, travels the stars and puts Q on edge plus other things I can't say due to spoilers yet her race was near wiped out from the Borg. She is one of my favourite characters.

Michael Bauer

Two of my favorite TNG episodes. Data's "What are your intentions towards my daughter" to Riker might also be one my favorite funny lines on TV. And man - the acting of the actor who played the admiral at the end when he helped Data and came out to tell the others that they couldn't save Lal... really moving. I always get a little teary-eyed as well :)

Alhazred

I don't remember the details, but I recall something about someone who wrote for TOS wanting to establish that Klingons really liked fruit drinks when they weren't getting sloshed on blood wine. Worf liking prune juice is basically canonizing that. (Prune juice also makes you regular so when Guinan tells him to keep drinking his prune juice, she's saying he's full of crap.) Star Trek Online did a sequel to this episode: when the Enterprise-C travels back through the rift, it doesn't work and sends them even further into the future, where the Klingons won the war and the alpha and beta quadrants are dealing with the consequences of what happens when the events of Deep Space Nine come around without the Federation to handle it. The player's character and crew have a similar transition into the new timeline and the quest is about learning what's happening and sending the Enterprise-C (still with Tasha) back through the rift again, where this time it goes back where its supposed to and the timeline is restored. Originally, Worf was going to be the Klingon captain who demands the Enterprise surrender right before the Enterprise-C goes back through the rift. They dropped the idea because they thought it would be more distracting than anything.

Matrim

“Let’s make sure history never forgets the name…Enterprise.” Possibly the line that epitomizes the series.

Honey Hermsen

Man, George is trying to nitpick on Yesterday's Enterprise so hard

TechJJ

Another social issue that Star Trek is way ahead of its time beyond DEI - let individual choose their own gender (and race) identity.

AlekG

Hey everybody, I tried my best to search but couldn't come up with any answers so I apologize if this has been asked and cleared up. Why are episodes 309 and 310 missing? Thanks. P.S. 310 - The Defector is a one of the really good ones ...

Angzarr

It's a crying shame she was never cast as Lilith Crane's little sister, or any other role as a younger sibling of Bebe Neuwirth. She seems like she'd make an even better sister to Lilith than David Hyde Pierce did to Frasier, if that's possible! As far as I can tell they never worked together though.

AlekG

Cool, thanks.

Doug

I remember Simone doing the intro one time by saying "Prune juice, a warrior's drink" a long time ago

John Smith

It could just be that killing Guinan would have had consequences that Q didn't really want. Still, it is odd that he was surprised to see Guinan on the Enterprise back in "Q Who". You'd think he'd be aware of something like that.

Khalayx

Rewatching this really made me realize how silly it is...the Romulans are introduced to us as the cautious, counter-punching strategists of the galaxy...only for it to be revealed that they attacked a Klingon outpost and Federation starship in the same day and location, when the two sides were at war with each other. Rather than sitting back and letting the two sides wipe one another out. Kind of nonsensical, even though it makes for a good episode. Also, Simone seems to think George's problems with Guinan are a lack of information, but it seems to me that he just doesn't like the addition of "mystical wise old black woman, space version" to the show, which is fair. (But also wrong, Guinan is great)

Joe Concepts

Watching various reactors, and being kind of nerdy about the technical details on this show, it's funny to me how many don't know off the top of their head that OUR ship is the Enterprise D.

JoeNotCharles

You have the time line all wrong - the Federation and the Klingons weren't openly at war when the Romulons attacked, they were just unfriendly with each other. The war broke out BECAUSE of the Romulan attack (reading between the lines it sounds like the Klingons blamed the Federation for some reason - we don't know exactly why, but I can think of lots of plausible reasons, especially if they're already suspicious of the Federation.) And the Romulans didn't attack the Enterprise-C, the Enterprise-C attacked the Romulans, when they answered the Klingon distress call - the Romulans weren't expecting that.

Life in the cave of Garanoga

Just rewatched this one, because I F'n love E15 and wanted to point out a few subtle things that make this episode so damn good. Tasha had to go back, and she self prophesizes it when she says "It could be seconds or minutes". If the C goes back it gets immediately destroyed and no Klingons witness it. If Tasha goes back with them they last those few minutes longer and the Klingons witness them and have the time to confirm that the Federation is in fact defending them. Simone pointed out no Deanna, either the Betazoids aren't aligned because of the war, the federation doesn't see the need for a counselor, or Deanna just didn't want to be used as a weapon so to speak. George noticed Picard being more assertive and him not being buddy buddy with Wil as much. Riker's comment about the Klingons shouldn't be so eager after they put a beating on them in the last battle, Riker in our timeline knows Klingon culture and would never say that. That line shows that not only does he not understand Klingons but neither does the Federation and that's why they're losing. The Klingons couldn't wait for the next opportunity to face the Enterprise, they don't fear defeat, they seek it out so they can try to overcome it. And the last one is Crusher being present on the bridge. Wesley would have been born after the war began, so outside of maybe Picard still knowing his parents no one on the Enterprise bridge would know him. So no families, a teenager on the bridge, Picard probably really hates kids in this timeline lol, so why is he there? In my opinion it shows two things, Wesley is very capable, and the Federation is desperate and pushing the capable cadets through faster. Anyways, thanks for coming to my Trek talk lol.

XeonAlpha

Guinan definitely has 2 hearts 😉

Jpsynergy

Great Summary. This episode just made me want to know more about her when I first saw it a few years back. Actually it's one of my favorites because of Guinan, as well as just being excellent overall.

Angela D. Mitchell

I love "Yesterday's Enterprise." And it's so gorgeously done! It looks and feels like a feature film in so many ways. Every aspect is beautifully done. The episode was directed by David Carson, who directed a ton of terrific TV stuff (including episodes of one of my favorites -- From the Earth to the Moon), as well as Star Trek: Generations. And writer Ronald D. Moore (STNG, First Contact, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Battlestar Galactica etc) was among those who worked on this screenplay. And oh, man, it was so good to see Tasha again, and to see her (and Denise Crosby) given this kind of lovely, complex, meaningful exit. And I always love Christopher McDonald, who was just great here. (And oh, man, you guys should watch "Hacks!") George, I don't think it was a new ability for Guinan, so much as what Simone suggested -- it's giving us more info, not slapping a new ability on her. We've seen enough hints that she is older and has mysterious powers that this felt perfectly fine to me. And it wasn't just Guinan -- what I thought the story communicated was that everyone believed Guinan because something WAS in fact wrong. Once they were told it, they instantly agreed because they could feel it was true. That felt very plausible to me. My very minor complaints are that (1) Riker was so strangely rude to Castillo for the first half of the episode -- who was a brave man just trying to do the right thing, and there didn't seem to be a reason for it. And (2), I really wanted one final shot of Tasha and the other crew as it entered the anomaly. But -- amazing episode. I'd still give it 10 out of 10. As a little bit of trivia, Wesley and Data were both also supposed to die gruesomely onscreen, and Patrick Stewart wore brown contact lenses to make his Picard "darker" in feel.

Angela D. Mitchell

PS, Hey, I personally think it's not a bad thing for Data to have a memory of kissing Riker. But I'm a constant shipper, so there you go. Also, my Riker crush is still absolutely active as of this episode. Also, Lal's actress was so good! Kudos to Hallie Todd, because she broke my damn heart.