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Oh, you really did it
this time, Will.

I mean, this is not
just a scrape.

This is a very deep cut.

Well, I can heal it, of course

but you've got to stop
playing parrises squares

as if you're 21 years old.

One of these days, you're going
to fall and break your neck

and I'm not going to be able
to heal that as easily.

I wasn't playing
parrises squares.

Worf's calisthenic program.

No.

I give up.
What was it?

I was trying to feed Spot.

Data's cat?

I told him I would feed him
while he was gone.

I was putting down
the bowl of food.

The next thing I know

there's a hissing ball
of fur coming at my face.

I hate cats.

I love cats.

You know, you've just got
to know how to handle them.

Maybe you'd like to do it.

I would be honored if I could...

Commander Riker to the Bridge.

On my way.

Oh, by the way...

you'll need this.

Report.

We're picking up a distress call
on long-range sensors.

It is Romulan, sir.

Romulan.

They claim they have suffered
a complete engine failure.

Power levels are dropping.

Life-support is failing.

Could be a trick.

How long before we rendezvous
with Captain Picard?

Approximately 13 hours.

Lay in a course
for the Romulan ship.

Let's put up the shields
and go to Red Alert.

I want to be ready for anything.

Aye, sir.

Captain's Log, Stardate 46944.2.

Commander Data, Mr. La Forge,
Counselor Troi and I

are en route to the Enterprise

after attending
a three-day conference

on the psychological effects

of long-term,
deep-space assignments.

Computer, activate
automatic helm control.

Helm control activated.

I was just leaving the reception

when this Ktarian
walks up to me and says

"Hello, Diane.

"I understand you're an empath.

"I'm a very...
sensitive man myself.

"I'm doing a thesis
on interspecies mating rituals.

Would you care to join me
in some empirical research?"

That's a very good impression
of Dr. Mizan.

How did you know?

He's notorious

but he really is an expert

on interspecies
mating practices.

Did you help him
with his research, Counselor?

Absolutely not.

I thought it was a topic
you were interested in.

How did you enjoy the rest
of the conference, Counselor?

To be honest, I was bored.

I spent most of my time

at Professor Wagner's
phylobiology seminar.

I thought the idea
of the seminar

was that we would
all participate...

bring different points of view
to the discussion.

He gathered 200 scientists
from all over the Federation

and all he did
was put us to sleep.

I have a memory record of the
entire lecture, Counselor.

I could repeat
the portions you missed...

No, thank you, Data.

Well, it was little better
at the physiognomy workshop.

Dr. Vassbinder
gave an hour-Iong dissertation

on the ionization effect
of warp nacelles

before he realized

that the topic was supposed
to be... psychology.

Why didn't anybody tell him?

There was no opportunity.

There was no pause.

He just kept talking

in one long,
incredibly unbroken sentence

moving from topic to topic

so that no one had a chance
to interrupt.

It was really quite hypnotic.

Well, I had a great time.

The warp energy symposium
was fascinating.

I actually had an opportunity
to touch a plasma field.

Really?
What was it like?

Oh, it was incredible.

I could feel the plasma
moving up my arm.

It was warm and...

Oh, and there was this amazing
tingling sensation that...

Captain?

Data.

...moved through my chest.

It was incredible.

It was like taking a bath
in pure energy.

It was not painful?

Oh, no. I...

Counselor?

Is there something wrong?

I'm not sure.

Space, the final frontier.

These are the voyages
of the Starship Enterprise.

Its continuing mission...

to explore strange new worlds

to seek out new life
and new civilizations

to boldly go
where no one has gone before.

Well, our bio-scans check out.

There are no physiological
anomalies.

If something did happen,
it didn't leave

any biological traces.

How long did it appear
to you that we were frozen?

I don't know.

Four, maybe five seconds.

You just stopped,
and then started again.

I can't explain it.

My memory record
does not indicate a pause

or a disruption
during that time period.

My internal chronometer
and the ship's computer

are both perfectly synchronized.

There does not appear to be
a temporal discrepancy.

Data, let's run
a ship-wide diagnostic.

Maybe we missed something.

Let's go through all this again.

You were sitting there.

The rest of us were here.

Describe the exact moment
when we appeared to freeze.

Well, um... Geordi was talking

about what it felt like
to touch the plasma field

and you were taking
a sip of tea.

Did you sense something
from any of us at that time...

any unusual emotion?

Not a thing.

I was empathically aware of you

right up to the moment
when you froze

and then it all stopped.

The last few days
have been exhausting.

Maybe it was my imagination.

There were moments
in that lecture hall

when I thought time
was standing still there, too.

Well, there is
another possibility, Counselor.

This could be nothing more
than simp...

Oh! Oh.

You all right, Counselor?

What happened?

You were motionless
for three minutes, 11 seconds.

It appears to be the same effect
that you described in us.

Do you remember anything?

No. One second,
I was talking to you

and the next,
you were all standing around me.

Wait a second.
This is weird.

What is it?

I had the tricorder
run a comparison

between the bio-scan
I took on you earlier

and the one I ran just now.

In the time
between the two scans

you should have aged 23 minutes

but according
to your cellular decay levels

you've only aged 20 minutes.

How do you account
for this discrepancy?

I don't know, sir.

It's as if, for Counselor Troi

for three minutes,
time just stopped.

Mr. Data,
contact the Enterprise.

Tell Commander Riker

to meet us at the rendezvous
point as soon as possible.

Have him scan the region
for temporal anomalies.

Aye, sir.

I'll check the sensor logs...

see if I can find anything.

Captain, may I see you?

The Enterprise is not
responding to our hails.

Are we within sensor range?

No, sir.

Increase speed
to the rendezvous coordinates.

Aye, sir.

We have
an engine-failure warning in...

Report!

The starboard nacelle
just cut out.

Attitude control
has been restored.

Full stop.
What happened?

The starboard antimatter pod
is completely drained.

The fuel reserves are empty.

Is there
a fuel containment leak?

No, sir.

The containment field
is intact.

All engine systems
are operational.

The fuel is just gone.

Geordi,
I believe I have an explanation.

According to the plasma
conversion sensor

the starboard engine has been
in continuous operation

for 47 days.

47 days?

Aw...
Let's check that sensor.

It must be malfunctioning.

I'll check
the fuel consumption logs.

What happened?

My hand.

Your cells are metabolizing
at an incredible speed...

almost 50 times normal.

The pain is going away.

Your metabolism's stabilizing.

It happened when I reached
for the bowl of fruit.

Captain, I am detecting
a temporal disturbance

intersecting the table.

It appears that
within the disturbance

time is moving
at an accelerated rate...

approximately 50 times
faster than normal.

The disturbance
is spherical in shape.

It is extending outward
from the hull

approximately 17 meters
from the ship.

That would cover
the starboard nacelle.

No wonder it used
up all its fuel.

Check the hull integrity.

It does not appear
to be affected.

Mr. La Forge, see if you can

move us away
from the disturbance.

Aye, sir.

Lateral thrusters on line.

Data, plot a course
away from the disturbance.

Make sure it doesn't come in
contact with our other engine.

Course plotted.

Adjust pitch to 27.3 degrees.

Set heading... 180 mark zero.

Got it.

Reversing at 15 meters
per second.

We are clearing the phenomenon.

All stop.

What was that?

There is another temporal
disturbance directly behind us.

Captain, I think you'd better
come take a look at this.

Yes, Mr. La Forge?

The sensors are picking up
temporal disturbances

throughout the region.

Different configurations,
different sizes...

they're everywhere.

Within each disturbance

it appears that time is moving
at a different rate.

It's almost as if something

has shattered
the space-time continuum.

The fragmentation effect
continues

along a heading of 270 mark 15.

That's the direction
of the Enterprise.

Can we navigate
around these fragments?

We'll have to limit
our maneuvering speed

to one-half impulse

but I think we can do it.

Get us to the Enterprise.

These are the coordinates.

Perhaps the Enterprise
has been delayed.

I've got the long-range sensors
on maximum, sir.

There's no sign
of the Enterprise.

But I am picking up
a faint reading...

possibly metallic.

It's difficult to tell.

The energy levels
are practically nonexistent.

Take us to it.

Aye, sir.

The fragmentation effect
is increasing.

Slowing to one-eighth impulse.

There she is.

My God.

Mr. Data?

The Enterprise and the warbird
both appear to be trapped

within one
of the temporal fragments.

The fragments seem
to be converging

at about this point.

I'd say we're looking
at the center

of the temporal disturbances.

Scan for life signs.

Sensors cannot penetrate
the subspace field.

I am unable to scan
within the vessels.

It looks like the Enterprise
has been damaged...

there, on the port nacelle.

The warbird doesn't look to have
sustained any damage at all.

I wonder if the Enterprise
even had time to get off a shot.

The Romulans
could have de-cloaked

before the Enterprise
had a chance to respond.

There's a second energy beam.

It's coming from the Enterprise
deflector array.

Do you have any idea
what that could be?

It is impossible to tell
from a visual inspection.

However,
it appears to be focused

on the warbird's
engineering section.

Well, we're not going to be able
to determine anything from here.

We need to get on board
the Enterprise.

That would be inadvisable, sir.

In each of the three instances
we came into contact

with one
of the temporal fragments

we were integrated
into its time frame.

If we beamed aboard
the Enterprise

we'd be frozen in time
just like they are.

Well, we have to find some way
of staying unfrozen.

Mr. La Forge, what about
a subspace force field

like the one we used
on Devidia II?

Could something like that
protect us

from the effects
of the temporal fragment?

Possibly, but we'd need

an awfully sensitive
phase discriminator

in order to moderate
that kind of field.

The emergency transporter
armbands

contain a type-seven
phase discriminator.

It should be possible
to reconfigure

their subspace emitters.

Yeah.

Yeah, that would
certainly isolate us

from the effects
of the other time frame

but if we wanted to interact
with that environment

we'd have to restrict the field.

It would have to be
practically skintight.

Mr. Data.

I will attempt
to narrow the field, sir.

Captain, I think
this is going to work

but... it's going
to take some time.

Well, Mr. La Forge,
it would seem

that time is something
that we have plenty of.

I've channeled
all communications

through the subspace relays
in the armbands.

That way, we'll be able to be
in continual communication.

How long will the fields last?

About an hour, maybe less.

Don't worry.

I'll be monitoring you
very carefully.

Oh.

Counselor.

I got a little dizzy
for a second.

We've created an artificial
pocket of time around you.

So, it's probably playing tricks
with your equilibrium.

It might take a little while
to get used to it.

You let me know if it
gets any worse.

Mm-hmm.

Beam us directly
to the Enterprise Bridge.

Aye, sir.

Energizing.

There are three Romulans

all of them with disrupters

one at conn.

There are none
of our security officers

on the Bridge.

They must have taken us
by surprise.

It appears
that we can move objects

in this time frame.

Maybe we could do something
to help Will.

I'm wary about making changes
in this time continuum

until we understand more
about what's going on.

Captain, the equipment
is no longer functioning.

However, the information
currently displayed

indicates there was a massive
power surge in Engineering.

Security teams
had just been sent

to Transporter Room Three
and to Sick Bay.

Counselor, will you go
to Sick Bay and investigate?

Mr. Data,
go to Main Engineering.

See if you can determine
the cause of that power surge.

I'll be
in Transporter Room Three.

Mr. La Forge.

La Forge here, sir.

Will you lock onto our signals.

I want you to transport
Counselor Troi to...

I'd rather not, Captain.

We've got limited power

and your isolation fields
consume a lot of energy.

Understood.

We'll use the Jefferies tube.

Let's go.

Maybe we can go around them.

No.

We'll find an alternative route.

Let's go back up.

Excuse me, Mr. Worf.

Captain...

Counselor, take a look at this.

It appears that Mr. Worf had
just beamed these three on board

and according to this

three other Romulans
had been beamed

directly to Sick Bay
just seconds earlier.

I know, I just saw them.

What are we doing
transporting Romulans

on board the ship
in the middle of a battle?

They don't have any weapons,
and that one looks injured.

If they were part of an invasion

then why are they unarmed?

It doesn't make any sense.

Captain, there's something
I have to tell you.

Dr. Crusher has been hit
by a disrupter blast

at point-blank range.

If time returns to normal,
I don't see how she can survive.

Data to Captain Picard.

Go ahead, Mr. Data.

Please come
to Engineering immediately.

It is urgent.

What's the problem, Mr. Data?

Captain, I believe

I have found the cause
of the power surge.

There is a warp core breach
in progress.

It is the flash point
of a warp core explosion

and it is expanding.

Expanding?

I thought that time
was suspended on this ship.

We were incorrect, sir.

I have determined
that time is moving forward

at an infinitesimal rate.

Why didn't we notice it before?

Our initial conclusion was based
on our observations of the crew.

A warp core breach moves
at a much faster rate.

The motion of the cloud

is within my visual detection
threshold.

At its current rate of expansion

it will consume the Enterprise

in approximately
nine hours, 17 minutes.

Is there anything
we can do to stop it?

It is no longer a question
of stopping it, sir.

The explosion
has already occurred.

The fact that it is moving
slowly changes nothing.

Astonishing to see it
frozen like this.

Do we know
what caused the breach?

No. However, the console
displays indicate

a power transfer in progress

between the Enterprise
and the Romulan ship

at the moment time decelerated.

That is why there is
a second beam

between the two ships.

Why would we be sending them
power?

Perhaps we should go
aboard the Romulan ship.

The answer
to that question may...

Captain?

Captain, are you all right?

My head.

Oh...

dizzy.

I can't...

No!

No! No!

No!

Troi to La Forge!
Get us out of here, now!

No! No!

It looks like you weren't
completely protected

from the effects
of the other time continuum.

The neuro-physical stress
must have been overwhelming.

In much the same way
deep-sea divers

experience nitrogen narcosis

you experienced a form
of temporal narcosis.

Can we modify
the subspace isolators

to give us better protection?

I don't think so.

I'd say the best thing we can do
right now is to be careful...

limit our exposure
to their time frame.

I'd say no longer
than ten minutes per trip

and we should probably
stick together

while we're there, just in case.

Very well.

Well, the first step is to find
out why the Enterprise

was transferring power
to the Romulan ship.

I think we should
begin our search

in the Romulan engine room.

Counselor

you spent several days
on a Romulan vessel.

You probably know more about
the layouts than anyone here.

Perhaps...

Captain, it might be better
if you stayed here this time

and gave yourself
a chance to recover.

Yes, very well.

I will monitor
your progress from here

but just remember...
ten minutes, no more.

Yes, Captain.

Geordi, there should be a power
utilization monitor over there.

Data.

This is highly unusual.

The crew is not
at battle stations.

The ship is on evacuation alert.

Is that why the Romulans
were being transported

to the Enterprise?

Take a look at this.

There's an energy feedback

returning
through the transfer beam.

It's probably what overloaded
the Enterprise's engines

and caused the core breach.

Perhaps the warbird was trying
to destroy the Enterprise.

I don't think so.

According to this

the Romulans were
actually trying

to shut down the power transfer.

Whatever happened,
this is beginning

to look less and less
like a Romulan attack.

Data, why don't we take a look
at their engine readouts?

Geordi, the engine core
is completely inactive.

That's impossible.

The Romulans use an artificial
quantum singularity

as their power source.

Once it's activated,
it can't be shut down.

Well, let's take a closer look.

I think we found the problem.

It appears to be
a highly focused aperture

in the space-time continuum.

Its energy signature
matches that

of the temporal fragments
we observed earlier.

However, it is approximately
1.2 million times as intense.

I believe this may be the origin
of the temporal fragmentation.

What are those dark spots?

I am not certain.

They exhibit a complex
bioelectric pattern

very possibly organic.

Organic?

From the molecular
configuration, it appears...

The aperture is beginning
to fluctuate.

I believe...

There is an energy buildup

in the phase
compensation levels.

Check the main distribution
bases.

It's the power transfer
from the Enterprise.

I'm reading a massive feedback.

Systems are beginning
to overload.

Notify the Enterprise

to shut down the power transfer
immediately.

Their power interlocks
won't disengage.

We'll have to interrupt
it ourselves.

Disconnect the transfer beam.

There is no pressure.

There is an impending
warp core breach.

Shut down all systems!

I believe my tricorder emissions

caused the temporal aperture
to activate.

I suggest we avoid exposing it

to any further energy emissions.

When time resumed

did you observe any activity
in the engine room

that might suggest
what the Romulans were doing?

They may have been attempting
to eject their engine core.

I thought I heard
one of the engineers

say something
about a power transfer...

something
about an energy feedback.

Yes, Captain.

It looks to me like they
were trying to stop

whatever was happening here.

Mr. La Forge

from where you are,
can you determine

what is happening
on the Romulan Bridge?

I think so, Captain.

Wait.

Something's not right here.

Data, was this man always
standing right here?

He's in neural shock.

We must get him to the runabout.

There isn't time.

He's dying.

At least this way

he'll be alive
in the other time frame.

We might have a chance
to save him later.

Is the Romulan still alive?

Yes, but...

I am getting unusual readings
from his bio-scan.

I am not certain
he is a Romulan.

His cellular structure
does not conform

to any known species.

His bioelectric patterns
are in a state of temporal flux.

I do not believe this being
is native to our time continuum.

Mr. Data, you said
that you found organic matter

in the temporal aperture.

Correct, sir.

I'd like to take a closer look
at those readings.

This is a biospectral analysis
of the temporal aperture.

The organic readings originated
from these dark spots.

They appear to contain
some sort of energy patterns.

Can you isolate one of them

and magnify?

They look like...
cellular clusters.

Its bioelectric patterns

are similar to those
of the alien's.

However, they are
significantly less complex.

Its cellular structure

appears to be
in a state of mitosis.

Data, this could be
some sort of embryo.

It is possible.

If I could further scan
the aperture

it might be possible to...

Captain.

Must... save...

No...

Who are you?

This body is not mine.

It was necessary to assume it

to exist in your time.

Why are you here?

We had to come... to save them.

They were in danger.

Who were in danger?

Our young.

They will die
in the gravity well.

It is artificial.

Artificial gravity well?

Do you mean
the Romulan engine core?

Yes.

Our young are trapped.

We must get them out.

Return them to our time.

His molecular structure
is destabilizing.

How were your young
trapped in the core?

We must use
a natural gravity well

to incubate our young.

We thought the Romulan core
would suffice.

It did not.

Captain, I believe the aliens

mistook
the artificial singularity

which the Romulans use
in their engine

for a natural one, a black hole.

They tried to use it as a nest.

That's what deactivated
the warbird's engine core

so the Romulans sent out
a distress call.

The Enterprise responded

and found the warbird suffering
from an apparent engine failure

and they attempted
a power transfer.

Power transfer.

We must stop power transfer.

Ruptured time...

Destroy our young...

When the power transfer
came into contact

with the alien nest

I believe it disrupted

the space-time continuum.

Did you attack the Enterprise?

Yes.

Had to stop power transfer.

Are there any others
like you here?

One... one other.

Do you know where he is?

Could he help us
restore normal time?

I estimate the core breach
will consume the Enterprise

in approximately seven hours,
two minutes.

Is it possible to lock
onto the core itself...

beam it into space?

No, sir.

We would have
to surround the core

with a subspace isolation field.

It is not possible to generate
a field of that magnitude

from the runabout.

Mr. Data, when you scanned

the temporal aperture
with your tricorder

it caused time to move forwards
and then back again.

Correct, sir.

What if we could

reverse that process?

Cause time to move backwards
and then forwards.

We might be able to run time
back to a point

before the warp core breach
occurred

and then find a way to prevent
the power transfer.

And then, when time
goes forward again...

The breach never happens.

I could attempt to remodulate

the tricorder's
delta-band emissions.

It should be possible
to better control

the temporal aperture.

Make it so.

If this works,
we may not have much time

to prevent the power transfer.

We'll have to decide

precisely where to be
and what to do

the very instant that time
begins to move backwards.

Captain's Log, supplemental.

After placing the modified
tricorder on the Romulan ship

we have returned
to the Enterprise.

I have reached Engineering,
Captain.

Standing by.

Acknowledged.

Counselor, are you in position?

Ready, Captain.

All right, Mr. Data.

Initiating tricorder emissions.

Captain...

Go ahead, Mr. Data.

The warp core breach
has been reversed, sir.

Be ready to stop
the power transfer, Mr. Data.

Aye, sir.

You must stop!

Specified energy systems
have been initialized.

The power transfer
can now be engaged.

Do not initiate
that power transfer.

I'm sorry, sir.
I already have.

We must shut it down.

The transfer beam
is at saturation, sir.

It can't be disengaged.

Computer, place a level-three
containment field

around the warp core.

Containment field activated.

Damage report.

Shields down to 27%.

Oh!

Primary phaser array...

Captain?

No time to explain, Number One.

Continue the evacuation
of the Romulan ship.

You'll find La Forge
in the Romulan engine room.

Beam him directly to Sick Bay.

Step back, now.

It's all right, Deanna.

He wasn't firing at me.

There was an alien here

who'd taken Romulan form.

I was firing at her.

The doctor got in the way.

Where did she go?

Status, Mr. Data.

I was attacked
by another alien, sir.

I was unable to prevent
the power transfer.

It cannot be disengaged, sir.

A core breach is again imminent.

Can we move the ship?

The feedback
from the transfer beam

would tear us apart.

Patch me
into the navigational control

of the runabout.

Got it.

I'm bringing the runabout in.

Mr. Data?

The core breach
has been prevented, sir.

Data, it appears that severing
the power transfer

has not only prevented
the core breach

but it has also
restored space-time to normal.

The alien who attacked me
has vanished, sir.

The warbird
has vanished as well.

Judging from the residual
temporal fluctuations

I believe they have returned
to their own time continuum.

Captain?

It's going to take

a little time
to explain, Number One.

Captain's Log, Stardate 46945.3.

We successfully evacuated
the crew of the Romulan ship

and we're on course
to the Neutral Zone

to bring them home.

Come in.

Where's that cat of yours?

Spot is sleeping, sir.

Why do you ask?

No reason.

I've worked out
the new rotation schedules.

I'd like you to cross-check
the personnel assignments.

Notify the department heads.

Your Bridge shift
begins at 2300 hours.

Understood, sir.

What are you doing?

Recent events
have compelled me to study

how humans perceive
the passage of time.

For example, I have often
heard people comment

that time seems to pass
more slowly in one instance

or more quickly in another.

In reality,
the actual passage of time

remains fixed.

Hmm.

I suppose it depends
on how people perceive time.

Every situation's different.

It depends on how you feel.

I have been testing the aphorism
"a watched pot never boils."

I have boiled
the same amount of water

in this kettle 62 times.

In some cases,
I have ignored the kettle.

In others,
I have watched it intently.

In every instance

the water reaches
its boiling point

in precisely 51.7 seconds.

It appears I am not capable
of perceiving time

any differently
than my internal chronometer.

Well, why don't you turn it off?

Sir?

Data, people do not have
internal chronometers.

Why don't you see what happens
if you turn yours off?

Thank you, sir.

I will try that.

Just don't be late
for your shift.