From: "colin mcgregor" <colin.mcgregor@canrem.com>
Subject: st:tng new spoiler
Reply-To: "colin mcgregor" <colin.mcgregor@canrem.com>
Organization: Canada Remote Systems
Distribution: aus
Date: 27 Sep 92 00:07:27 EST

Just thought I'd be a dirty rotten @*$#! and pass on some stuff from the
start of the 6th season of ST:TNG. This was shown last night here in
Toronto, and by the end of tomorow in most of North America it should
have seen it.

At the start of the last episode of 5th season the Enteprise is
recalled to Earth. In doing excavations under San Francisco a
Federation team uncovered a 19th century mine, but the rocks in the
mine have been altered in a way that could not have been done with 19th
century technology. Investigating further they find a Colt 45 pistol,
a pocket watch, and Lt. Commander Data's head, just his head (thus
the call for the Enterprise). In investigating further they determine
that some of the stuff in the mine could only from one world in the
Federation, so the Enterprise goes off to investigate. When word about
the discouvery reaches Guinan, she makes a comment to herself that
things are comming full circle. When the Enterprise reaches the world
in question, they discouver that it is uninhabited, but there is some
sort of temporal distortion in one small area of the world. When they
investigate, they find there is something on the world that is out of
phase with everything else. Data it turns out case the equipment built
into him to allow him to do the phase shift. Data does go in sending
back discriptions of the aliens he sees to the Enterprise. Suddenly
Data disapears.

Data finds itself safe and sound in late 19th century San Francisco.
In looking for answers he runs across a newspaper that notes a literary
reception for "Madam Guinan" (the artical comes with a familiar photo).
Data crashes the reception that has Guinan and Sammual ("Mark Twain")
Clements. We leave Data and Guinan talking with Clements listing in.

On the Enterprise Guinan meets with Picard an insists that he go on
the next away team. Pickard does this and just before the final
credits role, Picard, Rikker, Crusher, Troi and LaForge step through
the gateway into 19th century Earth.

That is the way the #@&*# Paramount left things for over 4 months,
and we had to survive on a diet of $@&*# re-runs.

In the start of the 6th season they resolve Data's "death" in a way
that is both logical and reasonable. They continue to refuse to give
straight answers on Guinan's background (pity). The one plot question
that you could drive a road train (or anything else huge) through is:
at the end of 5th season we see Picard and company going into the
gateway with standard Starfleet uniforms. When we see them all next
they are in 19th century San Francisco with appropriate 19th century
clothes. We know how Data got his clothes, some local card sharks made
the mistake of playing poker with Data, Data emerges with a large roll
of cash and some "new" clothes, then he starts buying things. How on
earth does Picard and company get their clothes? They don't have any
contact with Data before they get the clothes, so that can't be it. Like
wise, we are given the impression that they do not have any money. So,
are Picard and company theives? That seems to be the only answer that
fits, but even that has problems (it seems un-Picard like).
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