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Star Trek: TNG "Cause and Effect"

posted 10 years ago by SEAL412
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After I saw this movie I recall this episode from TNG. If you never have seen Star Trek, I highly recommend this episode. Star Trek isn't necessarily a show you have to watch from the beginning, like Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones or 24.

If you have netflix go to season 5 and look this episode up: Cause and Effect. The Enterprise is stuck in a time loop where it continues to get destroyed but the characters begin to experience deja vu and try to send messages to the next time loop.

It's a great take on the time loop and very well executed. Has anyone seen this episode?

[–] tbonesays 10 years ago

Yeah it is THE time loop story. I haven't seen it done that well. The breaking in the last act happened a bit too conveniently but otherwise it was fantastic. Especially the appearance of the other ship's captain at the end.

[–] bainz 10 years ago

wait is this the episode where they have to buy the casino to get out of the time loop?

[–] SEAL412 10 years ago

No that's another one I didn't think of! Coincidentally, in "Cause and Effect" they are all playing poker and start to experience deja vu.

[–] bainz 10 years ago

Ahh ... okay I know the episode you are talking about... by the way ... we are now old people complaining about plots being unoriginal haha

[–] BigRich 9 years ago

Yeah, that episode (or the decision at the end) was in a way similar to Star Trek: The Motion Picture when they encountered that asteroid in the warp field. Kirk is like, "blast it with lasers!" and Decker goes, "Belay that order..."

Picard kept giving the wrong directions which lead to the Enterprise getting destroyed and Riker's suggestion was all but ignored. It was Data that finally saw the pattern of 3's that kept appearing throughout this episode and he clued in that the it was the 3 pips on Riker's collar, and that it was Riker was correct all along.

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[–] bajparry 8 years ago

The very episode that at once turned me into a Trek fan. :-D

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[–] KutWrite (1334) 8 years ago

Another in the Star Trek universe is the time-travel return to "Trouble with Tribbles" on Deep Space Nine.

Here's some info. If you liked the original "Tribbles" you'll love this one. It also has references to "X Files" and even "Mathnet" if you remember that from PBS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trials_and_Tribble-ations

[–] [email protected] (148) 7 years ago

Don't forget all "The Twilight Zone" loop episodes

"Death Ship"
"Shadow Play"
"Judgment Night"
"Spur of the Moment"

There's likely more -- I'm forgetting them at the moment.