Enterprise crew vs. a temporal, living vortex and the two‑Picard paradox: a supernatural/time anomaly threatens the ship (and produces a duplicate Picard), forcing the crew to investigate causal mechanics while surviving an entity that singles out Picard.
Enterprise crew vs. a temporal, living vortex and the two‑Picard paradox: a supernatural/time anomaly threatens the ship (and produces a duplicate Picard), forcing the crew to investigate causal mechanics while surviving an entity that singles out Picard.
Events in This Arc
A derelict Enterprise shuttle is hauled into Shuttle Bay Two only to reveal an impossible duplicate: a second, identical shuttle bearing the same NCC-1701-D registration and an unconscious Captain Picard …
In Sickbay Pulaski delivers a cold, clinical diagnosis: the duplicate Picard's physiology is 're‑syncing' with the timeline — when the two times intersect the body will normalize and there will …
The Enterprise rams the churning temporal funnel and punches through the vortex core; the maelstrom catastrophically implodes. As the whirlpool collapses, O'Brien watches the shuttle and the dazed duplicate Picard …