We'll Always Have Paris
- Episode aired Apr 30, 1988
- TV-PG
- 45m
IMDb RATING
6.5/10
3.5K
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A scientist's experiment in time goes awry, reuniting Picard with an old flame, now married to the scientist.A scientist's experiment in time goes awry, reuniting Picard with an old flame, now married to the scientist.A scientist's experiment in time goes awry, reuniting Picard with an old flame, now married to the scientist.
Denise Crosby
- Lieutenant Natasha 'Tasha' Yar
- (credit only)
Wil Wheaton
- Wesley Crusher
- (credit only)
Isabel García Lorca
- Gabrielle
- (as Isabel Lorca)
Majel Barrett
- Enterprise Computer
- (voice)
- (uncredited)
James G. Becker
- Youngblood
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThe menu at the Café des Artistes includes such delicacies as "Croissants D'ilithium", "Klingon Targ a la mode," "Tribbles dans les blankettes," and "L'Antimatter Flambé."
- GoofsWhen Data puts the antimatter in the stream, he asks for a 27 second count down. Data has an internal chronometer and is notorious for giving arrival times down to the second. He is also capable of handling multiple calculations and thoughts at the same time without distraction. Why would he need an external audio countdown? Data requested the external audio countdown before the time distortion occurred because he knew that, when it occurred, there would be more than one of him and then could link his chronometer with the correct dimension.
- Quotes
Jenice Manheim: I've thought a lot about this over the years, and perhaps you're leaving out your greatest fear - the real reason you left.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Which was?
Jenice Manheim: That... life with me would have somehow made you... ordinary.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard: [ponders this, then laughs embarrassed] You're wonderful. And am I that transparent?
Jenice Manheim: Only to me.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Viden om: Teleportation (1999)
- SoundtracksStar Trek: The Next Generation Main Title
Composed by Jerry Goldsmith and Alexander Courage
Featured review
This is Star Trek
Of all of the episodes of the original series, next-generation, Deep Space 9, Voyager and enterprise, this episode is Star Trek. This episode is in fact what Star Trek is about.
Maybe this is an homage to the original series episode with "Lazarus", the man from two universes- but where that episode deals with time in respect to alternate universes, this episode deals with time itself, The constancy of time, and what would happen if that constancy were interfered with.
It also deals with time in a relationship that Picard had with a woman played here by Michelle Phillips, Who he meets here 15 years after he walked away.
Picard's former love interest is married to a doctor Mannheim, who has discovered a crack in time, a crack which has to be sealed.
Where normal people would be confused by alleged time-hiccups, Data is not confused. So Data is the one who has to work with past and future iterations of himself to close this crack.
This episode is always fascinating to watch, it's one of Brent Spiner's greatest Data performances. There is a quality of believability here, suspension of disbelief is not a problem, it's a fantastic concept, we believe in it because of its uniqueness.
Episodes like this were rare in the Trek franchise, but when they were revealed, they were very refreshing. In fact next generation had a double roll with the very next episode "Conspiracy".
Of course the last few episodes of season one lacked the appearance of Denise Crosby as Tasha Yar- Who I admit I did not like in season one but I actually liked a lot more when she appeared in "yesterday's enterprise" and then later as Sela, the daughter of that alternate Tasha. And those future episodes of course also dealt with time and/or alternate time-lines.
When we watch episodes like this, we start to wonder if time is as immutable as we think it is.
Maybe this is an homage to the original series episode with "Lazarus", the man from two universes- but where that episode deals with time in respect to alternate universes, this episode deals with time itself, The constancy of time, and what would happen if that constancy were interfered with.
It also deals with time in a relationship that Picard had with a woman played here by Michelle Phillips, Who he meets here 15 years after he walked away.
Picard's former love interest is married to a doctor Mannheim, who has discovered a crack in time, a crack which has to be sealed.
Where normal people would be confused by alleged time-hiccups, Data is not confused. So Data is the one who has to work with past and future iterations of himself to close this crack.
This episode is always fascinating to watch, it's one of Brent Spiner's greatest Data performances. There is a quality of believability here, suspension of disbelief is not a problem, it's a fantastic concept, we believe in it because of its uniqueness.
Episodes like this were rare in the Trek franchise, but when they were revealed, they were very refreshing. In fact next generation had a double roll with the very next episode "Conspiracy".
Of course the last few episodes of season one lacked the appearance of Denise Crosby as Tasha Yar- Who I admit I did not like in season one but I actually liked a lot more when she appeared in "yesterday's enterprise" and then later as Sela, the daughter of that alternate Tasha. And those future episodes of course also dealt with time and/or alternate time-lines.
When we watch episodes like this, we start to wonder if time is as immutable as we think it is.
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- Runtime45 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
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