TNG Seconda stagione

139 - Time Squared

In questo episodio...
Note
47
Blooper
Versione italiana
Citazioni
Script
Astronavi
El-Baz
Navigazione
Base stellare 73
Birra di Ennan VI
Uova 'Owon
Quante volte...
Vediamo il duplicato di un personaggio?
Vediamo un viaggio nel tempo?
SEQ 39
SAT 03.04.1989
I1 20.12.1994
COD tm
DVD 4
VHS 20 (PG)
STO Kurt Michael Bensmiller
TPY Maurice Hurley
REG Joseph L. Scanlan
MUS Dennis McCarthy
GUS Dr. Katherine Pulaski Diana Muldaur
Miles O'Brien Colm Meaney
IT Tempo al quadrato
FR Boucle temporelle
DE Die Zukunft schweigt (Il futuro tace)
BRTempo ao Quadrado
JP Senritsu no Mirai (Terrifying Future)
PRO Time to the Second
SCR 25.01.1989

Data Stellare 42679.2: L'Enterprise riceve un segnale di soccorso da una navetta della Federazione completamente priva di energia, ma nella zona di spazio circostante, nei pressi del sistema Endicor, non ci sono navi Federali, né basi stellari abbastanza vicine da spiegare la presenza del mezzo di trasporto alla deriva. I sensori indicano la presenza di una forma di vita umanoide sulla navetta. Picard decide di trarre in salvo il veicolo e il suo occupante. Portata a bordo, la navetta risulta appartenere alla nave stellare USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D e il suo passeggero è lo stesso capitano Picard, con i segni vitali confusi e stranamente sfasati. Il doppione del capitano viene portato in infermeria e le registrazioni del giornale di bordo della navetta rivelano che questa proviene da sei ore nel futuro e che Picard è l'unico sopravvissuto alla distruzione dell'Enterprise.

In questo episodio...

Note

47

Blooper

Versione italiana

Citazioni

Riker: We can't avoid the future. [T:20:58]

Picard: You're telling me that I should just sit down, shut up, and wait.
Riker: Well, I wouldn't have put it quite like that. [T:29:44]

Picard: Release him.
Pulaski: Do you know what you're doing?
Picard: No. Release him. [T:35:57]

Picard: A lot of questions, Number One. Damned few answers.
Riker: Perhaps none of it was real at all, sir.
Picard: Hmm, maybe. Well... they say that if you travel far enough you will eventually meet yourself. Having experienced that, Number One... it's not something I would care to repeat. [T:42:02]

Script

Nello script il Picard del futuro viene chiamato P2.

Dopo che Geordi chiede a Data cosa sta succedendo e Data risponde che non ha informazioni sufficienti, era prevista la seguente battuta:

                            GEORDI
                        The captain here, the captain
                        there. This shuttle -- that
                        shuttle. Commander Riker is right -- this
                        is very strange.

Prima di entrare in infermeria a [T:11:46] era prevista il seguente dialogo tra Picard e Data mentre si trovano nel corridoio di fronte la porta dell'infermeria:

44   INT. CORRIDOR - OUTSIDE SICKBAY

        Picard and Troi are approaching Sickbay.

                                        PICARD
                        This smells like a set-up.

                                        TROI
                        A trap?

                                        PICARD
                                (nods, yes)
                        If it is me, me from where? And
                        why in a shuttle? There is
                        nothing about this which is random
                        or happenstance. Look beneath
                        the boards, Counselor; I expect
                        something foul and familiar to
                        crawl out.

        Picard holds her look for a beat, then turns and ENTERS
        Sickbay.

Al termine della riunione degli ufficiali, Riker e Worf tornano in plancia, mentre Picard e Deanna si recano in infermeria. Nello script è presente la seguente scena in cui Geordi e Data ritornano nell'hangar navette 2:

73   INT. SHUTTLE BAY TWO

        Data is there with Geordi.

                                        GEORDI
                                (he studies the shuttle)
                        Data -- I think the molecular
                        structure of the shuttle has
                        changed!

        Data takes a tricorder and makes a scan.

                                        DATA
                        Your assessment is accurate.

                                        GEORDI
                        Why now?

                                        DATA
                        Perhaps it always was unstable
                        and it was only by leaving and
                        coming back that you were able
                        to see the change.

A [T:26:10] la dottoressa Pulaski, parlando di Picard dice «I don't know how long anyone could take this anxiety state», mentre nello script la battuta riportata è «I don't know how long anyone can take this kind of schizophrenia».

A [T:26:25] nello script sono presenti uno scambio di battute tra la Pulaski e Deanna che non si vedono nell'episodio (le parti in grigio sono quelle presenti nell'episodio):

                                        TROI
                        Doubt. Seeing him here and
                        knowing what happened to the
                        Enterprise could make him timid
                        or, worse, cause him to hesitate.

                                        PULASKI
                        When he said -- that there is
                        nothing familiar about him...
                                (re P2)
                        ... except his features. It
                        sounded like a form of denial.

                                        TROI
                        It's his accurate feelings.

La scena in cui Picard visita in silenzio l'hangar navette 2 a [T:37:32] non è presente nello script.

La scena finale dell'episodio tra Picard e Riker è leggeremnte diversa da quella riportata nello script (le parti in grigio sono quelle presenti nell'episodio):

142  INT. OBSERVATION LOUNGE (OPTICAL)

        Picard stares thoughtfully out at the stars streaking
        by. After a beat, the door opens and Riker ENTERS.

        For a long moment nothing is said.

                                        PICARD
                        Lots of questions, Number One...

        Riker nods in agreement.

                                        PICARD
                                (continuing)
                        ... and damn few answers.

        There is a pause.

                                        RIKER
                        Everything about it seemed a tick
                        off.

                                        PICARD
                        He certainly did not act like me,
                        at least not the way I think I
                        act.

                                        RIKER
                        Maybe none of it was real... we
                        could have just been part of a
                        shared illusion.

                                        PICARD
                        Or maybe "he" was thrown back in
                        time so that we would be able to
                        take another road... make another
                        choice?

                                        RIKER
                        That suggests a moral force,
                        giving us the opportunity... or
                        specifically giving you the
                        opportunity to right a wrong.

        Picard is pensive for a moment.

                                        PICARD
                        It's said... if you travel far
                        enough you will eventually meet
                        yourself.

        Picard turns and stares off at the stars.
 
                                        PICARD
                                (continuing) 
            I will tell you this... it's a
                        very unnerving experience, one
                        I hope never to repeat.

Nello script la scena finale dell'episodio è la seguente, che riprende la situazione del teaser:

142A INT. RIKER'S QUARTERS

        Riker has his cooking equipment in place. He has
        already placed all of the ingredients in a cooking
        utensil on the hot plate. The CHIME SOUNDS.

                                        RIKER
                        Come.

        Worf ENTERS with Pulaski and Geordi.

                                        RIKER
                                (continuing)
                        I know you were all disappointed
                        with my last culinary effort.

                                        WORF
                        Not all.

                                        RIKER
                        Thank you, Worf. Anyway,
                        considering the stress of the last
                        few days, I thought we could use
                        a little diversion and at the same
                        time I could make amends for the
                        'Owon omelet.

                                        PULASKI
                        So what are you preparing?

                                        RIKER
                        The specialty of the house,
                        Alaskan stew.

                                        GEORDI
                        Not with ingredients you picked
                        up at Starbase seventy-three?

                                        RIKER
                        No -- I had the computer fabricate
                        everything. The potatoes, the
                        onions, the flour, and the meat.

                                        WORF
                        Meat? What kind of meat?

                                        RIKER
                        Ahh... Well, to be authentic I
                        needed moose. But, I couldn't
                        find the specific molecular
                        pattern for moose, so I had to
                        improvise. The computer came
                        close...

        Riker fills their plates.

                                        RIKER
                                (continuing)
                        ... actually, it's somewhere
                        between venison -- musk ox -- and
                        Kobe beef.

                                        WORF
                        I thought that humans had long ago
                        given up the practice of raising
                        animals for food.

                                        RIKER
                        There were a couple of winters
                        when it was either starve or hunt.

                                        WORF
                        How fortunate.

        Pulaski looks down at her plate.

                                        PULASKI
                        I'll give you this -- your stew
                        smells a lot better than the eggs.

        They taste it. Reactions around.

                                        PULASKI
                                (continuing)
                        This is quite good.

                                        GEORDI
                        Agreed.

        Worf's expression is one of revulsion.

                                        RIKER
                        No good, Worf.

                                        WORF
                        I appreciate the effort, I would
                        have preferred another omelet.

                                        RIKER
                        Sorry. I used the last of 'Owon
                        eggs.

                                        GEORDI
                        Thank goodness.

        Off their reactions:

                                                          FADE OUT.

                        END OF ACT FIVE                         

                            THE END