From: ierardi@flash.usc.edu (DJ Ierardi)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.startrek.current
Subject: Time's Arrow (part 2) - Spoilers (?)
Date: 7 Sep 1992 20:33:48 -0700
Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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This is a few weeks old. I don't know if its been posted here yet,
and doesn't come from my usual "reliable" source. Any, if you're
interested ... a plot outline for "Time's Arrow", part 2. 

Spoilers ahead.


























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Well, I read the script today (but I warn you, it was an early draft
with no revision pages and there were notes saying that parts were to
be revised)  This is just bare-bones stuff...mainly because I couldn't
get to keep a copy... I was only allowed to read it where I was.  So,
I'm sure I've left stuff out.

Where to start...Picard and co. are renting a room (maybe more) in a
boarding house.  They're posing as a travelling theatre troop
performing A MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT'S DREAM...  Riker's posing as a cop, 
Bev's posing as a nurse  -- they're all trying to find Data.

Samuel Clemens is sure that Data and Guinan are evil time travellers
setting about to import technology to the 19th century.  Clemens is
afraid that the same kind of "temporal pollution" will happen then as
it was in his story A CONNECTICUT YANKEE IN KING ARTHUR'S COURT.  He's
damn sure that he's going to prevent this.  So he cons his way into
Data's room and tampers with Data's engine. (BTW, the bellboy IS Jack
London and is really nonexistant in this episode -- basically he
leaves after Clemens tells him that he doesn't want to write about him
and that if London felt his story was so good that he should write
about his stories himself, especially if he was planning on going to
the Yukon.)

Beverly, posing as said nurse, discovers that the cholera victims in
the area really weren't cholera victims -- someone's stealing their
life energy (like we didn't know this).  After Geordi has devised some
sort of gas lamp that also can detect triolic waves (sp) [and how he
did this w/19th century equipment, I'll never know + it wasn't
explained in the script] Bev and Riker discover that there is a bogus
Dr. (who uses a cane w/a snake head) and nurse lurking about.  (I
don't remember how this came about, but Riker gets ahold of the cane
and finds out it controls the time 'ports.)

Riker and Bev try to catch them, start a phaser fight, and the aliens
'port out of the hospital room ... causing an explosion which draws a
real cop who wants to know who the hell Riker is -- seems this cop
knows just about every other cop and doesn't recognize him... as our
troupe is running away, they almost literally run into Data and
Guinan.  Guinan senses that Picard knows her and comments about this
to him.  He verifys it and says that this is their first meeting and
she can't say anything to him 500 years in the future.

Data has found the cavern -- it's under the Presidio.  Guinan greases
the skids for our merry band of time travellers and they all go there.
Clemens has followd them and is making a general nuisance of himself.
While underground, the aliens pop back in, try to grab the snake,
don't get a good hold of it tho'... they open a time 'port right in
the middle of Data.  It closes in on him sending his body to the
future and keeping the head in the past... There's also another fight
at this time -- Guinan get's thrown down and has her head hit a rock.
The troupe goes after the aliens towards the future, but Picard is
worried about Guinan and misses the boat.  And Clemens has gone along
for the ride to the 24th century.

Meanwhile, back in the future, Geordi is trying to reattach Data's 500
year old head to his body.  After a few attempts, everything works!
(like we didn't expect this?)  Data tells them how to get the snake
cane to work properly and how to destroy the alien outpost of the
future.  While in the 24th century, Clemens realizes that all the
things he's worried about won't happen and that the future is a happy
place to be.  He volunteers to go back to his time now that he knows
everything will be hunky-dory... Clemens arrives back in the 19th
century, tells Picard how to work the snake cane.  Picard goes
forward, finds the aliens central area that needs to be destroyed.
He's transported out just in time so he can lead us on into another
season.
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