Time Squared

This Story: Season 2 Episode 13 (production code 139)
TNG Overall: Episode 39
Trek Overall: Story 139, Episode 141
Airdate: 3 Apr 1989
Written by Kurt Michael Bensmiller and Maurice Hurley
Directed by Joseph L. Scanlan

Notes

• We get some background to Riker’s youth here about his parents, and his father shows up in the next episode.
• This was supposed to have Q as the main “bad guy”, but Gene Roddenberry said no.
• Wesley does not appear in this episode.
• The first time the Enterprise is shown to have been destroyed on screen.  The other times are in the episode “Cause and Effect” and the movie “Star Trek: Generations”.
• There’s a loose reference back to Kirk’s time travel trick from “Tomorrow is Yesterday“.

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