Story: Yesterday’s Enterprise
Written By: Ira Steven Behr & Richard Manning & Hans Beimler & Ronald D. Moore
Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Year: 1990
What a fantastic episode. When the once lost Enterprise-C arrives from a time distortion, it creates an alternate timeline, one in which the Federation has been embroiled in a long-term war with the Klingons…and are losing. As a result there is no Worf on the Enterprise-D, but Tasha Yar is still alive and serving. Guinan is the only one with any inkling of the notion that their version of events is wrong.
The story is really well executed. The only way for the Federation to live, and for the proper timeline to be restored, is to send the Enterprise-C back to the past where it can be destroyed by Romulans while attempting to save a Klingon ship, thus ensuring peace amongst the two races.
However Yar has discovered her fate, or at least Guinan has alluded to her fate…she will not survive one way or the other. She decides to join the Enterprise-C; she gives herself a death that could possibly be more noble and heroic than her meaningless death in the proper universe. I’m no fan of Denise Crosby as an actress, or the character of Yar in general, but man…what a killer storyline.
NEXT TIME: Data’s Daughter
Written By: Ira Steven Behr & Richard Manning & Hans Beimler & Ronald D. Moore
Series: Star Trek: The Next Generation
Year: 1990
What a fantastic episode. When the once lost Enterprise-C arrives from a time distortion, it creates an alternate timeline, one in which the Federation has been embroiled in a long-term war with the Klingons…and are losing. As a result there is no Worf on the Enterprise-D, but Tasha Yar is still alive and serving. Guinan is the only one with any inkling of the notion that their version of events is wrong.
However Yar has discovered her fate, or at least Guinan has alluded to her fate…she will not survive one way or the other. She decides to join the Enterprise-C; she gives herself a death that could possibly be more noble and heroic than her meaningless death in the proper universe. I’m no fan of Denise Crosby as an actress, or the character of Yar in general, but man…what a killer storyline.
NEXT TIME: Data’s Daughter