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If you exit a timeline, are there some remnants left in your memory? [closed]
If you exit a timeline, is it as if nothing happened, or are there some remnants left in your memory, etc.?
As in ST:TNG S3 E15, "Yesterday's Enterprise," Cpt. Picard would not let another ...
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Why didn't Picard exit the nexus and prevent the entire movie from taking place?
In Star Trek: Generations, Picard
Why doesn't he exit the Nexus further back and prevent the events from ever taking place at all?
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Did Picard violate the Temporal Prime Directive in "All Good Things…" [closed]
In "All Good Things…", the series finale of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Picard time travels to a number of eras, including his relative future. When the crisis is resolved, he chooses to ...
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Which was the fate of the Enterprise C in "Yesterday's Enterprise" alternate timeline?
In TNG episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" the Enterprise C (the last starship with that name before TNG's time) travels in time 22 years to the future (TNG's present) just before being destroyed by the ...
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"Cause and Effect": Why didn't the Enterprise check with a Starfleet "time beacon" earlier on?
I have seen this episode a number of times. I believe while it is mentioned that the Typhon Expanse (as being explored in the episode) is largely unexplored, there does not appear to be any issue ...
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Why Voyager required assistance to travel back in time in the end of "Future's End" episode?
This answer to my previous question made me thinking -- why Voyager wasn't able to travel back in time, in the end of "Future's End" episode, without assistance of Capt. Braxton's ship / 29th century ...
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Why is getting back to the future always such a fuss?
While getting to the past obviously requires some effort or accident, why (in-universe) are the crews going to such lengths to recreate the time-travel circumstances instead of simply travelling ...
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How did Picard actually cause the destruction of human kind?
Through the final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, we learn that
This part is really unclear for me. How could the anomaly stop the combination of amino acids into the first proteins? Is it ...
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Why did Picard describe the past as “the past” when he was actually there?
During final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation Picard is moving back and forth in time and we can see three timelines: current, past and future. Two times during his "visit" to the past ...
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Why was there apparently no knowledge of the missing ship in the Typhon Expanse?
In the TNG episode "Cause and Effect", we are treated to the following line of dialogue...three times.
"Captain's Log, Stardate 45652.1. The Enterprise has entered an area of space known as the ...
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Why wasn’t it Worf attacking in the Yesterday’s Enterprise timeline? [closed]
"Federation ship Enterprise, surrender and prepare to be boarded!"
I love this scene in Yesterday's Enterprise and have frequently considered the possibility of Worf delivering that line. ...
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Why is the anomaly visible in the ending of "All Good Things"
Towards the end of All Good Things when Picard convinces his crew to return to the scene of the anomaly: His point is that if he was right, then it would just be forming and they could stop it. When ...
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