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Time cringle report are a classic science fabrication assumption , andStar Trekhas dip into that well several times . AlthoughStar Trek : The Original Seriesnever did a traditional time loop installment , pot of Captain James T. Kirk ’s ( William Shatner ) adventures involve time travel . EveryStar Trekseries since has contain time travel in some way , including two of the franchise ’s most highly regard moving-picture show , Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home&Star Trek : First Contact . Not everyTrekseries has done a time loop topology episode , but it ’s an unbelievably play assumption that makes for great TV when it ’s done well .
The time loop topology premise fits so well within the world ofStar Trek , that it makes sensory faculty the franchise would return to it multiple clock time . Time cringle ( or " temporal causality loops " ) are apparently so common in theStar Trekuniverse , that Starfleet uses a meter iteration computer simulation as one of their preparation drills . InStar Trek : Lower Decksseason 2 , episode 8 , " I , Excretus , " a holodeck simulation called"Time Loop"was one of the possible exercise theUSS Cerrtos ' Lower Deckershad to melt down , along with things like infiltrating a Borg square block or escape the Mirror Universe . Being a Starfleet officer mean being ready for anything , and here are fiveStar Trekepisodes that trapped their characters in a time loop .
Many television shows have taken reward of a fourth dimension loop premise , withStargate SG-1 , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , The X - Files , andSupernaturalall delivering particularly fun time loop episodes .
The Star Trek franchise has done a lot of sentence - travel stories in various show and motion picture , and some have been undeniably better than others .
5"Future Tense"
Star Trek: Enterprise Season 2, Episode 16
Although not a clip iteration episode in the traditional gumption , Star Trek : Enterprise’s"Future Tense " features two dissimilar miniature prison term loops . When the Enterprise NX-01 finds a derelict shuttlepod from the future tense float in space , the secular radiation leaking from the ship get time disturbances . As Commander Trip Tucker ( Connor Trinneer ) and Lt . Malcolm Reed ( Dominic Keating ) continue to examine the shuttlepod , they notice themselves reliving the same moment over and over .
" Future Tense " has some playfulness moment , including the time loops .
skipper Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) and Sub - Commander T’Pol ( Jolene Blalock ) divulge that the pod is from the 31st 100 and presume it must be touch base to the Temporal Cold War in some direction . To keep the pod from the Suliban or the Tholians , Archer and Reed examine to booby - pin down it but terminate up stuck in another time loop . finally Trip activate the pod ’s distress signaling and the ship vanishes , presumably back to the thirty-first century . " Future Tense " has some fun moments , including the time loops , but theTemporal Cold War plot line onEnterprisenever quite puzzle out as well as it could have .
The thirty-first - one C shuttlepod is impossibly cock-a-hoop on the interior than the outside , a nod to the meter - traveling TARDIS onDoctor Who .
4"Coda"
Star Trek: Voyager Season 3, Episode 15
When a shuttlecraft expect Captain Kathryn Janeway ( Kate Mulgrew ) and Commander Chakotay ( Robert Beltran ) crash land on a planet , Janeway is seriously hurt . Before long , Star Trek : Voyager ’s villainsthe Vidiians find the crashed shuttle and kill Janeway and Chakotay . The two then appear again on the shuttle just before they crashed . Immediately realizing they ’re catch in a time loop , Janeway and Chakotay prove something dissimilar , but this time , their shuttlecock explode . Time resets again , and Janeway and Chakotay make it back to Voyager before Janeway is killed again .
" Coda " is an entertaining and even frightening episode , and Kate Mulgrew delivers a great performance .
In the terminal loop ofStar Trek : Voyager ’s " Coda " , Janeway sees herself " go bad " and encounters the opine look of her father . Realizing that something is n’t ripe , Janeway pass up to go with himand wakes up on the satellite as Chakotay and The Doctor ( Robert Picardo ) reanimate her . " Coda " is an entertaining and even frightening installment , and Kate Mulgrew delivers a with child performance . However , the concluding reveal that most of the story happened in Janeway ’s top dog undercuts some of the more emotional moments .
3"Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"
Star Trek: Discovery Season 1, Episode 7
Star Trek : Discoveryseason 1received a miscellaneous reception from fan , but " conjuration to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad " fend out as a self-colored and entertaining take on a authoritative premise . When Harry Mudd ( Rainn Wilson ) arrives on the USS Discovery , he enact his plan to kill Captain Gabriel Lorca ( Jason Isaacs ) and deal Discovery ’s spore drive engineering to the Klingons . Mudd has a time vitreous silica that allows him to repeat the same 30 - min time geological period over and over .
Victorious , Burnham delivers the takeover de grâce line to Mudd:“Turns out you could memorize a con gentleman’s gentleman . "
Due to the tardigrade DNA in his system , Lieutenant Paul Stamets ( Anthony Rapp ) stay aware of the fourth dimension loops , andhe recruits Michael Burnham ( Sonequa Martin - Green ) and Lt . Ash Tyler ( Shazad Latif ) to help him stop Mudd . Mudd wipe out Lorca repeatedly and nearly succeed in his plan , but Stamets , Burnham , and Tyler reroute Mudd ’s sign to his fiancée , Stella ( Katherine Barrell ) , and her father rather than the Klingons . Victorious , Burnham delivers the coup de grâce business to Mudd:“Turns out you could con a con human . "
There ’s a lot to have a go at it about Star Trek : Discovery that you only notice when give the first four seasons of the series a second look .
2"Face the Strange”
Star Trek: Discovery Season 5, Episode 4
In one ofStar Trek : Discovery’sbest episodes so far , Captain Burnham and her unexampled First Officer , Commander Rayner ( Callum Keith Rennie ) , get themselves jumping through unlike fourth dimension periods in Discovery ’s past , present , and future . Like the former time he was bewilder in a time loop , Stamets stay on aware of the jumps and exercise with Burnham and Rayner to feel a result . They revisit multiple moments from past season ofDiscovery , and Michael even run across her retiring ego , lead in a Burnham vs. Burnham slugfest .
The fourth dimension jump turn out to be the effect of a Krenim"time bug"that messenger Moll ( Eve Harlow ) snuck onto the Enterprise in the previous episode .
Burnham and Rayner also get a glimpse of a possible future tense where the Breen ended up with the Progenitors ' engineering and destroyed the Federation . Thankfully , Stamets , Burnham , and Rayner forbid this hereafter by destroying the fourth dimension germ , and Discovery loses only six hours rather than the weeks it could have lost . Not only isStar Trek : Discoveryseason 5 , episode 4an improbably fun episode ofStar Trek , but it also shows how far Burnham and the other characters have come since the show ’s first season .
1"Cause and Effect”
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 5, Episode 18
InStar Trek’sfirst true sentence loop episode , theUSS Enterprise - D is destroyedover and over again as Lt . Commander Data ( Brent Spiner ) and the rest of the crew endeavor to recover a root . After a cold open that end with the Enterprise spoil up , the crowd members end up back at their secret plan of salamander . Although they do not initially realize they are vex in a time loop-the-loop , Dr. Beverly Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) begins experiencing a sense of déjà vu . After they discover their quandary , Data sends a content to himself using his positronic wit .
Wonderfully engineer by Jonathan Frakes , every time loop in " crusade and Effect " feel unique .
At the end of each loop-the-loop , the Enterprise collides with another ship as it issue from a place - time distortion , after Data ’s suggestion to use the tractor electron beam break . information eventually realizes the message he air himself indicates they should essay Commander William Riker ’s ( Jonathan Frakes ) trace to decompress the primary shuttlebay . The plan works and the Enterprise finally avoids the collision . Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) then reach out to the other ship , the USS Bozeman , which has been miss for over 90 years . marvelously directed by Jonathan Frakes , every time loop in " lawsuit and Effect " finger unique , and the installment remains one ofStar Trek’smost memorable time change of location storey .
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