We'll Always Have Paris (Episode)
| Series | Star Trek: The Next Generation |
| Season | 1 |
| Episode | 24 |
| Production Number | 124 |
| Release Date | 2 May 1988 |
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Stardate 41697.9: A temporal disturbance reunites Picard with an old flame
While the Enterprise is traveling to Sarona VII for shore leave, a bizarre time loop distortion causes literal déjà vu. Soon after, the ship receives a distress signal from Dr. Paul Manheim's science outpost on Vandor IV. The crew rescues Manheim and his wife, Jenice, who turns out to be an old love of Picard's, but the nonlinear temporal experiments Manheim and his now-dead team were conducting not only ended in disaster on Vandor, but were responsible for the disturbance that the Enterprise experienced earlier. Those disturbances now threaten to spread and rip open the fabric of spacetime.
Manheim himself is dying, as his body can't deal with the strain of partial interdimensional existence. On top of that, Picard's unresolved feelings for Jenice, whom he stood up in Paris twenty-two years earlier, are left hanging following a session on the holodeck, and even Dr. Crusher finds herself feeling jealous of Jenice. Finally, using Manheim's directions, Data beams into the Vandor lab to reseal the center of the dimensional breach with a piece of antimatter; although he finds himself in three overlapping timeframes at once, he is able to sort out the situation and succeed in his task. Manheim is instantly cured, and he and Jenice prepare to begin his work anew. This time, thanks to Picard's holodeck recreation of Paris, he is able to bid Jenice a proper farewell.
Director
Robert Becker
Writer
Deborah Dean Davis & Hannah Louise Shearer
Starring
Patrick Stewart … Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Jonathan Frakes … Commander Will Riker
Brent Spiner … Lieutenant Commander Data
Gates McFadden … Dr. Crusher, Beverly
Marina Sirtis … Counselor Deanna Troi
LeVar Burton … Lieutenant, j.g. Geordi La Forge
Michael Dorn … Lieutenant, j.g. Worf
Wil Wheaton … Acting Ensign Wesley Crusher
Guest Starring
Michelle Phillips … Jenice Manheim
Rod Loomis … Dr. Paul Manheim
Isabel Lorca … Gabrielle
Dan Kern … Lieutenant Dean
Jean-Paul Vignon … Edouard
Kelly Ashmore … Francine
Lance Spellerberg … Transporter Chief Herbert
