Captain Jean‑Luc Picard's internal moral and identity crisis: confronted with a terrified duplicate of himself and the possibility that his future self sacrificed himself to save the ship, Picard must decide whether to accept self‑exile/sacrifice or re...
Captain Jean‑Luc Picard's internal moral and identity crisis: confronted with a terrified duplicate of himself and the possibility that his future self sacrificed himself to save the ship, Picard must decide whether to accept self‑exile/sacrifice or reclaim command and find another way.
Events in This Arc
A derelict Enterprise shuttle is hauled into Shuttle Bay Two only to reveal an impossible duplicate: a second, identical shuttle bearing the same NCC-1701-D registration and an unconscious Captain Picard …
A decisive turning point: the living vortex annihilates a probe, lashes the bridge and encircles Picard Two in sickbay, proving the phenomenon is not random but focused on Jean-Luc. Troi …
The Enterprise rams the churning temporal funnel and punches through the vortex core; the maelstrom catastrophically implodes. As the whirlpool collapses, O'Brien watches the shuttle and the dazed duplicate Picard …