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"Yesterday's Enterprise" is the 63rd episode of the television series ''Star Trek: The Next Generation''. It was the 15th episode of the third season. The episode first aired in syndication the week of February 19, 1990. In the plot, the crew of the USS ''Enterprise''-D must decide whether to send the time-travelling ''Enterprise''-C back through a temporal rift to its certain destruction in order to prevent their own disastrous timeline from ever occurring. The plot for "Yesterday's Enterprise" came from the uniting of two story ideas; one which featured the crew of the time-travelling ''Enterprise''-C, and another episode which featured the return of Denise Crosby, whose character had been killed in the show's first season. Trent Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Stillwell rewrote the story to more prominently feature the character of Guinan, and the script was completed by a team of five writers. Filming of the episode lasted a week; some planned elements, including death scenes for many of the characters, were either too time-intensive or costly to film. In syndication, "Yesterday's Enterprise" outperformed most of the third season's episodes with a 13.1 ranking, the third-highest number for the series at the time. The episode is cited as a favorite by members of the cast and by reviewers. ==Plot== The ''Enterprise''-D encounters a rift in space-time while on a routine mission. As they monitor the anomaly, the heavily damaged USS ''Enterprise''-C, a ship believed destroyed more than two decades earlier, emerges. Instantly, the ''Enterprise''-D undergoes a sudden and radical change: it is now a warship and the Federation is at war with the Klingons. Neither Worf nor Counselor Troi are seen or referred to, and Tasha Yar runs the tactical station. None of the crew notice the change, but Guinan senses that reality has changed, and has a meeting with Captain Picard. She says, for example, that there are supposed to be children on the ship, which of course is completely impractical on a warship. She suggests that the ''Enterprise''-C does not belong in their time and should return to the past. Picard, who knows that this would be a suicide mission, refuses to give such an order on Guinan's intuition alone. Captain Rachel Garrett of the ''Enterprise''-C and her crew learn they have travelled into the future. Garrett explains that they were responding to a distress call from the Klingon outpost on Narendra III, and were attacked by Romulan warbirds. While the crew works to repair the ''Enterprise''-C and tend to the crew's injuries, Picard and his command staff discuss whether or not the ship should return to the past. Riker argues that their deaths would be meaningless, but Data suggests that it would be considered an honorable act by the Klingons. Picard discusses the situation with Garrett, who tells him that her crew will serve the Federation in the present. Picard quietly reveals to her that the Federation is on the verge of defeat and the presence of one ship will make no difference, but if the ''Enterprise''-C were to return to the past they might prevent the war from ever starting. Garrett agrees and announces to her crew that they will return through the anomaly, but at that moment, the two ships are ambushed by a Klingon Bird of Prey. Garrett is killed, and her helmsman, Richard Castillo, takes command. During the repair efforts, Yar has become close to Castillo, but is unnerved by tense interactions with Guinan. Guinan reveals to Yar that she knows that Yar dies a meaningless death in the alternate timeline, and the two never should have met. Yar requests a transfer to the ''Enterprise''-C based on Guinan's advice, to which Picard agrees. As the ''Enterprise''-C prepares to return through the anomaly, three Klingon battlecruisers attack. With the anomaly becoming unstable, Picard orders the ''Enterprise''-D to cover the ''Enterprise''-C's withdrawal. The ''Enterprise''-D suffers major crew losses under the Klingon barrage, including the death of Commander Riker, and forcing Picard to man tactical himself. With the ''Enterprise''-D on the brink of destruction, the ''Enterprise''-C traverses the anomaly... In the restored timeline, Guinan, still subtly aware of these events, asks La Forge to tell her more about Yar. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Yesterday's Enterprise」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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