| Star Trek: TNG episode | |
| "All Good Things…" | |
 Aboard the USS Pasteur, scanning the Devron System. |
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| Episode no. | 177 (Part 1) 178 (Part 2) |
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| Prod. code | 277 (Part 1) 278 (Part 2) |
| Airdate | 23 May, 1994 |
| Writer(s) | Brannon Braga Ronald D. Moore |
| Director | Winrich Kolbe |
| Guest star(s) | Colm Meaney John de Lancie Andreas Katsulas Patti Yasutake Clyde Kusatsu Denise Crosby |
| Year | 2370 (2364/2395) |
| Stardate | 47988.1 |
| Episode chronology | |
| Previous | "Preemptive Strike" |
"All Good Things…" is the final episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was originally shown the week of May 29, 1994 and, like the first episode of the series, "Encounter at Farpoint", was a two-hour episode that in syndicated re-runs is most often shown as two one-hour episodes. "All Good Things..." serves as the closure of the first episode's trial of the crew of the USS Enterprise-D (and in a broader sense, humanity in general) by the nigh-omnipotent being Q.
This episode won the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.[1] Another episode of this series with such an honor is "The Inner Light".
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Plot summary
Captain Picard finds his mind jumping between the present (stardate 47988), the past during the Enterprise's mission to Farpoint Station, and 25 years in the future where Picard has retired to the family vineyard. These jumps occur without warning, and the resulting discontinuity in Picard's behavior often leaves Picard and those around him confused. In the present, he is ordered to take the Enterprise to the edge of the Romulan Neutral Zone to investigate a spatial anomaly that has appeared. In the future, he gains passage on USS Pasteur under command of his former wife, Beverly Crusher along with other former members of his crew to also travel to find the anomaly. In the past, however, despite having his mission to Farpoint Station cancelled by Starfleet due to the anomaly, he insists on traveling toward Farpoint, believing the Enterprise's encounter with Q to be more important. After reaching the place where he had encountered the Q net in Farpoint Station and finding nothing there, Picard enters his ready room, only to find himself once again in Q's courtroom. Q explains that he is responsible for Picard's time-skipping, and challenges Picard to solve the mystery of the anomaly, saying cryptically that Picard will destroy humanity.
As Picard arrives at the anomaly in all three time periods, he discovers that the anomaly is much larger in the past, but does not exist at all in the future. As the past and present Enterprises scan the anomaly with tachyon beams, the Pasteur is attacked by Klingon ships, but the crew is saved due to the timely arrival of the future Enterprise led by Admiral William Riker; Riker summarily dispatches the attacking ships. Q once again appears to Picard and takes him to billions of years in the past on Earth, where the anomaly, growing larger as it moves backwards in time, has taken over the whole of the Alpha Quadrant and has prevented the formation of life on Earth. When Picard returns to the future, he discovers the anomaly has appeared, created as a result of his orders, and the tachyon pulses from the three eras are sustaining it. Data and Geordi LaForge determine that they can stop the anomaly by having all three Enterprises fly into the center of it and create static warp shells. Picard relays the orders to each Enterprise; each does so, and in turn each succumbs to a warp core breach, with Q telling the future Picard that "all good things must come to an end" just before the future Enterprise explodes.
Picard finds himself facing Q once again, who congratulates Picard on sacrificing his crew and ship to solve the puzzle, and showing that humanity can still evolve, much to the surprise of the Q Continuum. Q explains that the anomaly never was, and that his past and present have been restored. During this exchange Q reveals that, contrary to his seeming role as antagonist, he has in fact advocated on humanity's behalf in spite of the wishes of the other members of the Continuum. Q leans close to Picard as if to impart a profound secret but pulls back, smiling. He then withdraws from the courtroom and bids farewell to Picard by saying "See you... out there." Picard then returns to the Enterprise of his present, and no longer skipping through time. Picard decides to join the officers' poker game for the first time, regretting not having done so before.
Production notes
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- The originally aired two-hour version contains several scenes that were removed for time in the two-part version for syndication.
- During the filming of "All Good Things...," a behind-the-scenes retrospective documentary called "Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation" was also filmed, hosted by Jonathan Frakes.[2]
Notes
- ^ The Hugo Awards by Year, World Science Fiction Society website, accessed 29 January, 2008
- ^ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0292568/
External links
- All Good Things... (episode) at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- All Good Things... at StarTrek.com (Part 1)
- All Good Things... at StarTrek.com (Part 2)
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