Clearly, the only option is to do the one thing that makes absolutely no sense.
Sure, why not? :rolleyes:
From Memory Alpha:
[i]Teleplay writer Maurice Hurley commented, “We’ve seen a lot of people do time backs and forths and jumps around. They’re always coming back 500 years or 1,000 years. Nobody’s ever really come back six hours. Six hours is what fascinated me.”
Hurley intended this episode to lead into “Q Who”. He explained, “The way it was originally designed, is that three episodes later they’re going through space and all of a sudden Picard finds himself stuck in a shuttlecraft in a flash, and he sees the ship falling in to the top of the vortex and exploding. He thinks he’s lost his mind; he doesn’t know what’s going on. Q appears and says, ‘Hey, how ya doing?’ Picard says, ‘You caused that and all these other things?’ Q says, ‘Ah, well, surprised you didn’t put it together earlier. Oh well, you are slow. Just a kind of calling card, something to do. Interesting, wasn’t it?’”
The idea was nixed by Gene Roddenberry. Hurley complained that it added confusion to the ending. “Why would going into the vortex’s center save you? It doesn’t make sense. But it does if Q is pulling the strings.”[/i]
BTW, in case you’re wondering this is the first time the Enterprise D is destroyed. Sort of.
Good thing Riker never has to worry about meeting himself.
Oh wait. :eek:
This universe is chock-full of doppelgängers.
Assuming you’re not counting the Yamato, of course. 
At least Riker didn’t kill his. The Cardassians did that for him.
That was the first Galaxy-class destroyed. shakes head
Really? Is that in one of the books?
Naturally. And the CGI was completely different.
Right? 
WWJTKD?
You know, I think this is the only time that Kirk and Picard would do the exact same thing.
Scary. :eek:
Oh SNAP! My bad. He was imprisoned by the Cardassians because of his involvement with the Marquis. I don’t know why I thot he was killed. Perhaps it’s cuz I see Kira in my head being so sad.
Beverly didn’t do much better, really. Maybe the Ro is the exception that proves the rule.
Just all sorts of twisted.
Yeah, I could have sworn I hadn’t known anything about him dying onscreen.
What I saw in my head was Kira coming back from a mission (I believe it was the episode called ‘Defiant’). I could have sworn Kira said something like, “Tom sacrificed his life for us to escape.” Memory Alpha said he was taken prisoner by the Cardassians in that episode.
Maybe she just assumed he was dead?
Look at you. Trusting my Trek knowledge. I’d have to watch it again.
I trust your Trek knowledge implicitly.