From: "milan rezac" <milan.rezac@canrem.com>
Subject: times arrow ii info
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Date: 14 Sep 92 20:54:49 EST

SPOILER WARNING:
  The following message contains a more or less complete
  spoiler for Time's Arrow II, written by a person who claims
  to have read the script.  I merely cross-post it here.
  Moreover, I have _not_ read it, so please do not ask me
  about more details...


















127. 09/19/92  227  46___._      "Time's Arrow II"

I quote Hunter Eliott:

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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.  (Picard/Stewart does have a thing for
Shakespeare, doesn't he?)...  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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