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Timescape
Troi is having a
meal with Geordi,
Data and Captain
Picard aboard a runabout shuttle when the 3 suddenly freeze
in front of her for 5 seconds and then continue unaware of
what has just happened.
Geordi finds nothing in the bio scans. He and Data go to
run a shipwide diagnostic to see if there are any other problems
detected while Captain Picard talks to Troi. Next Troi relises
she has been motionless for 3 minutes. Geordi runs another
scan and discovers she has only aged 20 minutes since her
last scan 23 minutes ago - during the 3 minutes she was motionless,
time stood still for her.
The ship starts goining uncontrolably and when they manage
to stop it, they are out of fuel in one of the engines. According
to the computer data the engine has been going solidly for
47 days.
Picard wanders away from the front of the ship investigating
and finds a mouldy bowl of fruit. When he touches it his hand
gets a sudden pain and he reals back. His hand has aged years
ahead and now looks old with long finger nails. Data finds
a temporal disturbance in which time is moving 50 times faster.
Geordi finds temporal disturbances everywhere throughout
the region with each one havin time moving at a different
speed. Picard orders Geordi to fly the runabout back to the
Enterprise.
They arrive ast the co-ordinates but the Enterprise is nowherre
to be seen.
There is a faint energy reading on sensors and Picard orders
Geordi to take them to it. When they arrive they find the
Enterprise and a Ferengi Warbird are trapped in a temporal
disturbance in which time does not appear to be moving.
Picard tells Data and Geordi to find a way to protect them
from the time shift so they can beam onto the Enterprise.
Data reconfigures some bands to strap round their arm and
Troi, Picard and Data beam onto the Enterprise's bridge. There
are several Romulans on the brige and no Enterprise security
offers. Picard thinks the Rolumans launched a suprise attack.
Troi arrives in sick bay to find a Roluman firing a distrupter
at point blank range at Beverly
Crusher. There is also a Romulan woman there. However
when Troi turns her back she moves however Troi does not notice.
Picard arrives in transporter room 3 to find Worf
beaming, injoured and unarmed. Troi arrives and tells him
about Dr. Crusher. Data then calls them to engineering saying
that it is urgent, Picard and Troi head off.
In engineering, Data explains the Enterprise is in the middle
of a warp core breach, which is expanding. He says time is
moving forward however it was going so slowly no one could
detect it. But because he can see the anti matter explosion
he can now detect it. Meaning that the explosion will engulf
the Enterprise in 9 hours.
Picard starts launching and when Data and Troi look he points
to a smily face that he has drawn in the cloud from the warp
core explosion. He then gets a pain and goes crazy forcing
Geordi to beam them back to the runabout.
They decide to limit their exploser to the other time frame
and Troi, Data and Geordi beam to the Romulan ship leaving
Picard on the runabout. When they arrive they discover the
Romulan ship is being evacuated. The engine is showing no
readings dispite the fact that it can never be turned off.
When they investiate they find the origin of the temporal
fragements.
When they scan it with a triquarter, it somehow becomes activated
and time moves normally again as the Romulan's quickly move
around the ship, one mentioning the 'power transfer.' Picard
then witnesses the Enterprise exlode from the anti matter
explosion. Then time goes backwards and everything is reversed.
Geordi notices a Romulan is not stud where he was before
all of this happened. The Romulan is actually in their time
frame and jumps on Geordi knocking both of them out in an
orange electric type flash.
Geordi is looking like he will nos survive so Troi takes
the band off his arm so that he can bs saved in the other
time continum. The Romulan is revealed to be a different alien
who is not from their normal time contium.
The alien tells them the the black sports in the center of
the temporal disurbance are actually the aliens young and
the temporal disturbance was caused by the aliens using the
Romulans quantum singularity as a nest. Picard works out the
Enterprise was here to help the Romulans from an apparent
engine failure and began the power transfer to try and reactivate
it. The alien says there is one other like him.
Picard decides to try and reconfigure the triguarter to activate
the temporal fragment so that time moves backwards giving
them chance to solve the problems and evade the worp core
breach.
They carry out the plan and Data beams to engineering to
attempt to stop the power transfer being activated. However
the other alien jumps on his and knocks them both out. When
Data wakes up the power transfer has already been activated.
Picard arrives on the bridge and discovers the Romulans are
on the Enterprise's side. The Romulan who appeared to be attacking
Riker was helping
him up. Meanwhile in sick bay Troi discovers that the Romulan
was not firing at Dr. Crusher but at the alien. On the bridge
Picard moves the runabout into the path of the power transfer,
destroying the runabout but disengaging the transfer.
This knocks everything back into place and the aliens and
the Warbird disappear. Later Riker finds Data trying to make
time move more slowly via perception by testing the theory
"a watched kettle never boils." Riker suggests he
turn his internal cromonmetre off.
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