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We'll Always Have Paris (TNG episode)
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"We'll Always Have Paris" is the 24th episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation
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meets an old flame, whose husband has created a haywire dimensional experiment.
, along with other ships in the sector, experience a localized time distortion, and soon after receive a distress call from Dr. Paul Manheim from the nearby Vandor system. Riker recalls that Manheim was ejected from the Federation
Science Institute for conducting unauthorized experiments. In the Vandor system, they find the distress signal coming from a facility on a planetoid surrounded by a force field. When they make contact with the facility, a hysterical woman requests the Enterprises help to save her husband, Dr. Manheim, and lowers the shields.
The two are brought aboard, and while Dr. Crusher tends to Dr. Manheim, Picard discovers his wife is Jenice, Picard's former love from Paris before he decided to join Starfleet. Jenice warns that her husband was working privately in his laboratory but does not know what he was doing. Jenice also alerts the crew to numerous security protocols that her husband has installed at the facilities. As the crew prepares to send an away team to investigate the laboratory, they experience more time distortions, labeled by Data as "Manheim effects", and hurry their efforts. They find that they cannot complete a transporter beam to the facility due to the instabilities. Dr. Manheim recovers long enough to explain that he was doing experiments involving time, gravity, and funnels to other universes, and suspects his last experiment is running out of hand. He provides the crew with proper coordinates to beam down to avoid the security fields. Picard admits to Jenice that he worried about losing her again after he left her in Paris, and vows to correct Dr. Manheim's experiment.
Data is sent down alone and disables the remaining security measures before entering Manheim's laboratory. He finds a column of energy emanating from a dimensional matrix, the source of the time distortions. Data, though briefly affected by the time distortions, is able to add anti-matter to the matrix, causing the matrix to stabilize and halt the time distortions. Dr. Manheim fully recovers, and he and Jenice thank Picard and the crew for their help. Picard and Jenice use the holodeck to recreate one more encounter at a Paris cafe, before she returns with her husband to the planet.
Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: The Next Generation is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry as part of the Star Trek franchise. Roddenberry, Rick Berman, and Michael Piller served as executive producers at different times throughout the production...
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PicardJean-Luc Picard
Captain Jean-Luc Picard is a Star Trek character portrayed by Patrick Stewart. He appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation and the feature films Star Trek Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis...
meets an old flame, whose husband has created a haywire dimensional experiment.
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The crew of the USS EnterpriseUSS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)
The USS Enterprise is a 24th century starship in the Star Trek fictional universe and the principal setting of the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series...
, along with other ships in the sector, experience a localized time distortion, and soon after receive a distress call from Dr. Paul Manheim from the nearby Vandor system. Riker recalls that Manheim was ejected from the Federation
United Federation of Planets
The United Federation of Planets, also known as "The Federation" is a fictional interplanetary federal republic depicted in the Star Trek television series and motion pictures...
Science Institute for conducting unauthorized experiments. In the Vandor system, they find the distress signal coming from a facility on a planetoid surrounded by a force field. When they make contact with the facility, a hysterical woman requests the Enterprises help to save her husband, Dr. Manheim, and lowers the shields.
The two are brought aboard, and while Dr. Crusher tends to Dr. Manheim, Picard discovers his wife is Jenice, Picard's former love from Paris before he decided to join Starfleet. Jenice warns that her husband was working privately in his laboratory but does not know what he was doing. Jenice also alerts the crew to numerous security protocols that her husband has installed at the facilities. As the crew prepares to send an away team to investigate the laboratory, they experience more time distortions, labeled by Data as "Manheim effects", and hurry their efforts. They find that they cannot complete a transporter beam to the facility due to the instabilities. Dr. Manheim recovers long enough to explain that he was doing experiments involving time, gravity, and funnels to other universes, and suspects his last experiment is running out of hand. He provides the crew with proper coordinates to beam down to avoid the security fields. Picard admits to Jenice that he worried about losing her again after he left her in Paris, and vows to correct Dr. Manheim's experiment.
Data is sent down alone and disables the remaining security measures before entering Manheim's laboratory. He finds a column of energy emanating from a dimensional matrix, the source of the time distortions. Data, though briefly affected by the time distortions, is able to add anti-matter to the matrix, causing the matrix to stabilize and halt the time distortions. Dr. Manheim fully recovers, and he and Jenice thank Picard and the crew for their help. Picard and Jenice use the holodeck to recreate one more encounter at a Paris cafe, before she returns with her husband to the planet.
External links
- We'll Always Have Paris rewatch by Keith R.A. DeCandido