This is the final episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and it was a double-length one at that. It begins with Picard having SERIOUS problems. It seems that he's been bouncing back and forth in time. But why? Why do we see three different Picards at three different points (seven years ago, the present and in the more distant future)? All of this is explained, to a degree, when Picard realizes Q is behind all this in this episode that clearly seems to have been inspired by "A Christmas Carol".
While I did enjoy seeing the past, present and futures for the Enterprise crew, this is once again a time travel episode which is jam-packed full of scientific nonsense and solutions that are made up of lots of meaningless buzzwords (temporal inversions, anti-time and much more). If you like this sort of stuff, it's a great episode. As for me, I thought it had its moments but called for way too much in the way of pulling answers out of thin air.
While I did enjoy seeing the past, present and futures for the Enterprise crew, this is once again a time travel episode which is jam-packed full of scientific nonsense and solutions that are made up of lots of meaningless buzzwords (temporal inversions, anti-time and much more). If you like this sort of stuff, it's a great episode. As for me, I thought it had its moments but called for way too much in the way of pulling answers out of thin air.