Cause and Effect story
The Enterprise becomes stuck in a causality loop, but the crew retain some memory of previous instances. Guest star Kelsey Grammer as Morgan Bateson.
8 total · 2 choice · 4 major · 2 minor
| Theme | Level | Motivation |
|---|---|---|
| déjà vu | choice | Beverly and others aboard the Enterprise experienced deja vu |
| time loop | choice | temporal causality loop |
| human vs. inexplicable adversity | major | The crew members, Beverly most notably, were at a loss to explain their uncanny sensations that events were repeating themselves. |
| human vs. space anomaly | major | Enterprise stuck in time loop |
| logic vs. gut feeling | major | The feelings of deja vu experienced by Beverly and others at each of the various iterations of the time loop made them feel like something was gravely wrong, and as a result they struggled with whether to trust their feelings or shrug them off. |
| time travel | major | Enterprise stuck in time loop |
| charting unknown territory | minor | exploration of the Typhon Expanse |
| second guessing one's self | minor | Picard :: Picard about command decision |