- Aboard a shuttlecraft and en route back to the Enterprise, Picard, LaForge, Data, and Troi find themselves trapped in a time trap of some sort, where the Enterprise is being taken over by Romulans, and the ship, itself, on a course of destruction.—Moviedude1
- Aboard a shuttle-craft and on route back to the Enterprise, Picard, LaForge, Data, and Troi find themselves trapped in a time trap of some sort. They were all having a dinner conversation and that's when Deanna is shocked to see everyone freeze for 4-5 seconds. Later Deanna freezes for 3 mins 11 secs, while the rest try to analyze what happened. That's when the antimatter fuel on-board the shuttle runs out and Data finds that the shuttle's engines have been in continuous operation for 47 days. They find a temporal distortion inside the ship where time is moving 50 times its normal speed. The distortion extends 17 meters outside the ship, which covers the engines, and the antimatter fuel pods.
The Enterprise has received a distress call from a Romulan ship. They attend to the call as the rendezvous with Picard is 13 hours away.
Geordi finds temporal disturbances all around the ship and in each disturbance, time is moving at a different rate. The disturbances lie on the same path and course where the Enterprise lies. They move slowly to the rendezvous point and find the Enterprise missing. Geordi picks faint metallic readings and moves towards it, finding the Enterprise and a Romulan ship frozen in combat. They are both caught in a temporal distortion, and this is the point from where all other distortions have originated.
Geordi fashions a subspace force field around Picard, Data and Deanna, so they can experience normal time even inside the temporal distortion. They beam over to the Enterprise bridge, to find 3 Romulans on the bridge with Disruptors, attacking everyone. In sickbay Deanna finds Romulans shooting at Beverly with a Disruptor and that's when one Romulan female unfreezes. Picard discovers that Worf has been transporting Romulans over to the Enterprise, including the ones in sickbay. He is perplexed.
Meanwhile Data finds that the Enterprise is in the middle of a warp core breach. Also, the Enterprise was transferring power to the Romulan ship. They next beam to the Romulan ship and find that its engine core is shut down, the power transfer is causing a feedback loop (which is perhaps causing the Enterprise engines to overload and cause a warp breach), and the Romulans trying to evacuate their ship and shut the power transfer. Data finds an organic entity in the Romulan engine core, which is the focal point of all temporal distortions. When Data scans it, they get activated and time moves forward, destroying the Enterprise, but then reverses and freezes at the same point where the shuttle originally found them
Data, Deanna and Geordi find one Romulan unfrozen on the Romulan bridge, who attacks Geordi. Geordi goes into neural shock and to save him Deanna removes his force field, freezing him. Data finds that the Romulan who attacked Geordi is an alien (Michael Bofshever). They take the alien to the shuttle who admits that he is an alien and says their young ones are trapped in the Romulan engine core and if not rescued they will die in there. He had to assume the Romulan body to exist in this time dimension in this universe. The aliens use natural gravity wells for incubate their young and mistook the Romulan engine core as one as tried to use it as a nest. This failed their engine core. The Romulans sent out a distress call and Enterprise responded and started a power transfer. The transfer normalizes the space time continuum and would have killed the alien young ones (they only exist in disrupted space time). So, the aliens attacked the Enterprise to stop the power transfer. The alien dissipates after saying there is one more like him. Data the figures out a way to use the scans to reverse the time instead of it moving forward.
Picard stations himself on the bridge, Deanna in sickbay and Data in Engineering. The plan is to activate the scan in Romulan engine core to move time backward to point before the power transfer began and then stop it. But that's when the 2nd alien attacks Data, and he goes into neutral shock. Turns out the Romulan was not shooting at Beverly, he was shooting at the alien and Beverly got in the way. Riker was being helped up the Romulans and not being attacked. Data can't stop the power transfer but puts a containment field around the warp core. Picard orders Worf to complete the evacuation of the ship. He then moves the shuttle between the power transfer ray of the Enterprise leading to an explosion that destroys the Shuttle. The aliens disappear, along with the Romulan ship (and the alien young) and return to their own space time.
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