Yesterday’s Enterprise, TNG 3
Now we’re talking. This is one of the fans’ favorites and wil good cause. If it were just a timeline disturbance episode, dayanu. But what Yesterday’s Enterprise does is take that and spin it around. A timeline disturbance where WE are the disturbance. Out of nowhwere a wink and suddenly the Enterprise, a ship of discovery, is a ship of war (and, hence, the lights are dimmer.) Worf is gone, Yar is back and only Guinan knows “something is wrong.” It’s heavy, Philip K. Dick-ian stuff that actually takes some thought to follow and there all victories come at a cost. Terrific stuff and hats off to the cast for accurately portraying what their characters would be like with the same DNA but different backgrounds.
[...] Season 5 starts off swinging — the Klingon Empire is in civil war and Picard is getting all Clintonian on the Prime Directive. He sets up a blocade to stop Romulan supplies from getting in and discovers that Sela is actually Lt. Yar’s daughter from the alternate-Universe glitch that happened in Yesterday’s Enterprise. Trust me, it all totally makes sense. The house of Gowron defeats the House of Duras (for now) but Worf discovers that he just doesn’t have what it takes to live on the Home World. Luckily, Picard takes him back; now he can go back to having his suggestions blown off twice an episode. [...]
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