O'Brien has an ensign working for him in this episode. More evidence that he was a Lieutenant in this series. Why did they change it for DS9?

When Data refuses to 'fess up and tell all that he knows, Picard threatens that he'll be 'stripped down to his wires to find out what went wrong'. Kinda harsh huh? I don't imagine a human would receive a death sentence for someone accused of a similar 'crime'.

No wonder that in Descent, Lore gets summarily disassembled without benefit of trial or possible rehabilitation!

The clues to a missing day was the crux of the mystery, yet there was a simple way to prove it rather than with all of the detective work. All they had to do was access a Federation Time Beacon and they would have seen that the ships chronometer was a day off. They did this in Cause and Effect.

When Data is telling Picard about the M Class planet he is standing behind a guy in a gold shirt, at either the Ops or Conn positions. When Picard comes to the Bridge, Data is at Ops, a red shirted women is sitting at Conn. I suppose Data could have been in command when the planet was discovered, but when Picard comes to the Bridge Riker is already there.

Why is an M Class planet around a T Tauri type star considered unusual? Throughout the run of all the Star Trek series they have found M Class planets around stars that shouldn't, theoretically, have Earthlike planets, Omicron Ceti, the Rigel system, Antares, Mintaka...

In this episode Data makes a statement that it is apparently normal for humanoids to pass out when they encounter Wormholes, but Geordi didn't pass out when he and Data went through the Barzan Wormhole in The Price, nobody passed out in the constructed Wormhole on Deep Space Nine, and I believe in Star Trek: The Motion Picture they encountered a Wormhole and the only odd thing was that their speech sounded funny. Is it only Wormholes formed next to T-Tauri type stars that cause this blackout?

For a race willing to kill a shipload of people to protect their privacy, the Paxans gave in a little too easy when Picard suggested that they treat the first erasure as a `dry run' and that they try it all again. Either they are a rather gullible people or they really don't like to kill.

re:chronometer would have been a day off\

Actually what happened was the "wormhole" was explained as having not only caused the Enterprise to travel .50 parsec from their original position but also traveled in *time* in the span of thirty seconds a day into the future.

The 'other' Anonymous says:When Data refuses to 'fess up and tell all that he knows, Picard threatens that he'll be 'stripped down to his wires to find out what went wrong'. Kinda harsh huh? I don't imagine a human would receive a death sentence for someone accused of a similar 'crime'.

I think the motivation for Picard's remark is that Data is lying, despite the fact that he's programmed to tell the truth. Dismantling him would be the reasonable course of action to learn why he is going against his programming.

So if a human lied, would a doctor dissect him to see why?

No because we know why humans lie, we don't know why an android who can't lie would.

Data has been PROGRAMMED not to lie. Hence, it should be more difficult for him to do so than for people like you or me.

Ok, my VCR didn't tape the last few minutes of this episode ,how exactly after Picard found out about the Isolationist Aliens, the Paxans, did he and Data appease them. How did this episode end.?

Also In the 24th century the time of Picard how may ships are in Starfleet, and episode of DS9 says only 250 but other episodes hint at much more Starships possibly in the thousands. Will the Enterprise of Jonathan Archer in the 22nd century be the only ship in Starfleet.?

The Paxans said that the attempt to wipe everyone's memory was a failure, and they'd have to destroy the ship. Picard urged them to give them another chance, telling them to think of the first time as a trial run, that they left too many clues to find, and that this time, they'd be extra careful to eliminate all the clues. The Paxan responded that Picard people appeared to be an honorable one, worthy of a second chance, and granted Picard his request. The ep ended as it began, with everyone waking up, and Data telling them what "happened."

For further info on episode synopses, Dan, go to startrek.com. They have synopses, guest cast lists, preview trailers and photos from every single episode.

No episode has ever stated how many ships are in the fleet, nor did any DS9 ep ever state 250. The writers need to keep this detail open. However, there are a couple of interesting clues, albeit inconsistent ones:

In The Best of Both Worlds part II(TNG), the Borg destroyed 39 Starfleet vessels at the Battle of Wolf 359, and Lt. Commander Shelby said at the end of that episode that they would have the fleet "back up" within a year, implying that this loss, while immeasurably tragic in terms of loss of life, rendered Starfleet militarily crippled and vulnerable. Personally, I find this a somewhat pathetic indication of the size of the fleet. However, by A Time to Stand(DS9), the creators get it right. Bashir tells Sisko and Martok in the teaser that the 7th fleet was decimated, a fleet that numbered 112 ships in itself, and despite this loss, the war continues on, which includes MULTITUDES of Starfleet vessels participating in the big space battle to retake DS9 in The Sacrifice of Angels(DS9), at the Battle of Chin’toka in Tears of the Prophets(DS9), and at the Battle of Cardassia Prime in What You Leave Behind(DS9).

Archer’s Enterprise is the first Starfleet vessel that can reach Warp 5 (which of course, is not the TNG-era warp five). Since it appears from the preview clips and pre-publicity info that Starfleet is an organization with a little bit of history, I would imagine there are other ships, albeit not as fast at the Enterprise.

The Paxans are more dangerous than we think. The one who possesses Trio sounds just like the time-traveling alien in "Time's Arrow, Part 2"!

"I guess it's nice our Transporter Chief is the most careful person on the ship ... but more careful than our android, Chief Engineer, and Doctor??"

O'Brien gets up on his chair and makes like he was hanging his plant again, willing to take the fall and injure himself so it will seem all the more realistic. Yet, Doctor Crusher doesn't even think at all in the course of a day of prep about her experiment (gee it meant that much to her huh?), and Geordi & Data never bother taking out the sceurity program that bypasses the chronometer. O'brien is willing to fall off a chair to ensure everything seems realistic, but Crusher, Geordi, and Data decide against making any of the obvious adjustments mentioned above (of course, if they had it'd have been a really boring show!).

"Bah, we've encountred so many bloody Earth-like planets they'll buy this..."

How hard would it be for Data to mess around with the probe's image of the Paxon planet? When he popped the ship's library image up, the only change I could see was maybe a couple of swirls. He couldn't take out the moon or toss a few more moons in? Change the color? Alter the size? Any standard 21st century computer could be used to make the changes and create an image that would be much more difficult to trace back. A 24th century computer used by a superintelligent and superquick android should be a piece of cake. Although you know, the changed swirls really held me up from seeing the similiarities at first too :P

This episode did not happen

GREAT OPENING: The opening of this episode is flawless...it starts on the Holodeck & Picard's Dixon Hill detective Program....it blends with the episode perfectly.

In the guide, the Chief wonders why Picard did not just order Data to delete the files regarding the incident. I think that Picard did not do that because then Data would not know that he should cover up the entire incident.

Question regarding Luigi's comment about how the Enterprise's warp 5 is not NextGen's Warp 5- when was this established? I know that the original series warp scale was different but I think in planning Enterprise TPTB assumed the same warp scale they have been using since NextGen. I'm just wondering where that came from- it really doesn't matter to me which is used.

As the Encyclopedia explains, it's established by the fact that the Enterprise occasionally traveled at Warp 10 or faster in TOS, but that Warp 10 is indicated as the absolute limit by the NextGen era.

Except in her early standup comedy routines, in which she mostly spoke profanity
In the teaser, when Madeline, the secretary in Picard’s Dixon Hill program tries to use the word "incommunicado," she has trouble with the last couple of syllables, and Guinan helps her. Apparently, Guinan speaks English.
A rolling stone gathers no moss, but Data sure knows how to spin a theory out of bullsh*t
After Data gives a threadbare theory for how Crusher’s Diomedian moss could’ve have grown so much in 30 seconds, Picard, wanting to get Data out of the observation lounge while he consults with the others, tells him that he promised Mr. Nelson that Data would assist him with sensor diagnostics on Deck 36. Data leaves, and then the crew discuss what’s going on with Data and the missing day, but Picard never calls Mr. Nelson to tell him to expect Data to come by regarding this "promise" he made to him. Now Data may have just gone to Engineering to ask Mr. Nelson if he needed help without mentioning Picard’s promise, but if he did mention it, and Nelson didn’t know what he was talking about, this might’ve alerted Data that something was up. Or did Picard, by coincidence in fact make such a promise to Mr. Nelson?
I guess it would be kinda embarrassing:
Picard: "Uh, yeah, Starbase 12, this is the Enterprise, and uh, well, we seemed to have broken our chronometer, and uh, well.....could you tell us what time it is?"
Starbase 12: "Hey, everybody! The Enterprise broke their chronometer! BWAHAHAHAHA!"
After this scene, Picard, Crusher and Geordi decide to investigate how much time truly elapsed. Crusher examines the last one to use the transporter, and Geordi checks the ship’s chronometer. Ya know, if my watch breaks, I don’t go to a watchmaker to find out what time it is, nor do I go get a physical. I ask the nearest person on the street what time it is. So why, in a similar vein, don’t the crew contact the nearest starbase or station, and simply ask them what time it is?
Data: "Um, maybe the ‘wormhole’ took them through Mexico, and the cells took a siesta?"
After examining ensign Locklin, Crusher tells Picard that each of our cells have developed rhythms based on a 24-hour period. Good thing the last one to use the transporter was a human. It sure would’ve fouled up the plot if it was an alien from a planet whose day were not 24 hours long.
Data: "Um, the ‘wormhole’ took us through Beverly Hills, where all the males on the command staff got electrolysis treatment?"
When the Paxan explains the stasis field at the end of the episode, Geordi comments on how that explains why their beards didn’t grow. But wait a minute-the bridge crew wasn’t in stasis, remember? That was the Paxans’ original plan, but when it didn’t work, the Paxans and the crew came up with alternate plan, which required a full day to implement, both for the Paxans to delete the short-term memories of the crew, and for the crew to reset the chronometer, heal Worf’s wrist, prepare the probe, and get into position where they were when first knocked out. Now, as the Paxans worked their way from person to person, the people who they worked on first were probably the civilian families and non-essential personnel, and probably got to the command staff last. This would mean the command staff was awake almost right up to the last minute of preparation, and their beards would show such growth. What probably happened is that they shaved at the last minute, but that’s not the reason Geordi gave.
Data: "Um, maybe we forgot about Daylight Savings Time?"
At the end of the episode, the crew attempts to reset everything again. But won’t they be missing a few days from everyone else? And won’t they discover this the next time they make contact with another starship or starbase?

Apparently, Guinan speaks English.

Considering that she spent time in 19th Century San Francisco, this is not surprising.

Luigi, on your last nit, isn't the time difference explained by the phony wormhole? It (supposedly) knocked them several hours into the future.

Yeah, I think you're right, Trike. In fact, Data mentioned realigning the ship's chronometer with the nearest starbase in the beginning of Act 1, now that I think about it. Thanks.

Scott, I simply would've assumed that she was using a universal translator when visiting SF.

Luigi: After examining ensign Locklin, Crusher tells Picard that each of our cells have developed rhythms based on a 24-hour period. Good thing the last one to use the transporter was a human. It sure would’ve fouled up the plot if it was an alien from a planet whose day were not 24 hours long.

I also wondered about this 24-hours rhythm thing: I thought that research had shown it to be not exactly 24 hrs, but either 23 or 25 hrs. (can anyone with medical knowledge confirm which number is accurate?)

Moreover, if exactly 24 hrs have passed, and the body has a rhythm of 24 hrs, how can you detect that? Shouldn't it look like 30 sec. have passed? If, say, 20 hrs had passed, there would be a discrepancy with the body rhythm, but everybody talks about loosing "one day" which would be 24 hrs.

Sven has medical knowledge. Hey, Sven, you reading this, buddy? Wanna chime in over here?

When Data calls Picard to tell him they detected that M Class Planet Data's thumb is going up and down consistently during his speech... what was the matter there?

Does Data have a screensaver-like function implemented that moves his various limbs from time to time so they don't "cool off" or smth?

>Sven has medical knowledge.>

Is it just me or does that sound like something the Plakleds might say? (No offense intended.)

PS I wonder what Shakespere would sound like translated into Pakledesse.

Plakleds? Are those the aliens that tried to conquer the Federation with tooth decay?


Or did you mean the Pakleds?

How did they resolve Dr. Crusher's plant dilemna?

Did someone just toss them into the disposal?

If not, would she have remembered that she started them as seedlings?

GREAT SCENE:

D. Troi's collapse. It's beautiful.

(Wish I'd been there to catch her!)

When Data executes emergency plan zed zed alpha, I immediately thought of sector zed zed nine plural zed alpha.

In the teaser, when Madeline, the secretary in Picard’s Dixon Hill program tries to use the word "incommunicado," she has trouble with the last couple of syllables, and Guinan helps her. Apparently, Guinan speaks English.

Maybe she learned English during her time on Earth(Time's Arrow)? She seemed to be speaking with Mark Twain OK.

Maybe the Aldeans should loan the schematics of their planetary cloaking device to the Paxans. Why didn't Picard offer this as an option?

Why would a race of seemingly pure energy need an M-class planet, or was this just a probe of some kind? Perhaps it's for the same reasons the Founders live on M-class planets, except they just knock people out instead of creating a race of warriors and a race of diplomats to keep people away.

Maybe the Aldeans should loan the schematics of their planetary cloaking device to the Paxans. Why didn't Picard offer this as an option?

Maybe because the Aldeans had to switch off their cloaking device because it was destroying them - not exactly a sustainable technology.

Who did the voice for the Troi-faux in tng episode Clues? He sounded like one of the Provider's voices in Gamesters of Triskelion, and a tng episode

It was destroying the Aldeans but it probably would have a different effect on energy beings capable of taking over someone's body, aka the Paxans.

By "The Paxans" on Saturday, September 07, 2002 -1:12 pm:

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LOL!!!!

* Luigi Novi said: In the teaser, when Madeline, the secretary in Picard’s Dixon Hill program tries to use the word "incommunicado," she has trouble with the last couple of syllables, and Guinan helps her. Apparently, Guinan speaks English.

Scott, I simply would've assumed that she was using a universal translator when visiting SF.

There's at least one earlier example which implies she speaks English: In "Outrageous Okana", she tells Data a joke involving him being a "droid" and her a "noid", which only makes sense in a language that uses the English words android and humanoid.

* Why does Picard use a cheesy accent as Dixon Hill? He never did that while playing Hill in earlier episodes.

* Since Dixon Hill's office is not on the ground floor, wouldn't it have made more sense for Johnny to be shot through the window with a sniper rifle, rather than with a machine gun?

* During the first encounter with the Paxons, why does Worf run around the railing at possessed Troi, rather than simply pointing his phaser at her, as he does in the second encounter?

* Why doesn't Worf activate a force field around possessed Troi, as he did with the aliens in "Allegiance"?

* As a backup, why didn't Picard leave Data a recorded message, informing his future self that Data was following his orders, and warning himself not to investigate any further?

Since Dixon Hill's office is not on the ground floor, wouldn't it have made more sense for Johnny to be shot through the window with a sniper rifle, rather than with a machine gun?

It depends on how close the facing building is.

As a backup, why didn't Picard leave Data a recorded message, informing his future self that Data was following his orders, and warning himself not to investigate any further?

Can you imagine how intrigued such a message would make him?

Can you imagine how intrigued such a message would make him?

The idea would be to only give Picard the message in the event that the memory wipe plan had failed, and they had returned to the T-Tauri system to investigate the M-Class planet. At that point there would be nothing to lose by showing Picard a warning from his past self to turn back.

Also, after Picard and Riker speculate that Data is lying in order to protect a stalemate, and Riker suggests that they should "leave well enough alone", Picard says: "I would be prepared to live with the mystery, but Data's role in this must be ascertained, or he'll never be trusted with starship duty again." So he's risking the lives of 1000 people, to protect the career of one officer, when instead he could just not mention Data's behavior in his logs?

A couple more nits:

* After they awaken the first time, and Picard asks where they are, Riker responds: "Point five four parsecs from our original position. Almost a day's travel in just thirty seconds?"

A parsec is 3.26 light years, so 0.54 parsecs would be 1.8 light years (at maximum warp, the Enterprise can actually cover about 8 light years in a day).

Later, when Picard orders Ensign McKnight to take the ship back to the T-tauri system, he says "Warp Two". At Warp Two, traveling 1.8 light years would take over 2 months!

* During the second encounter, why was the small green blob able to penetrate the shields and possess Troi, when the rest of the energy field could not penetrate the shields yet?

It has been pointed out before, but it bears repeating. Data is an android, and several other episodes have established that his memory can be erased, either accidentaly or on purpose. Why not simply do that here?