Talk:Clues (Star Trek: The Next Generation)

message: I think we can all agree the article would greatly benefit from a comparison of the dialogue for the first memory loss event and the second. Here is the dialogue:
 
First attempt
Data: Captain
Picard: Data
Data: Careful Captain, the stun effect from the wormhole was relatively severe.
Picard: Apparently so. For how long were we unconscious?
Data: Approximately 30 seconds. I have scanned the entire ship and detected no life threatening injuries among the crew.
Picard: You were not effected?
Data: No sir, my positronic system is immune to the effect. This is the third unstable wormhole I have passed through during my time with starfleet. The first was aboard the USS Trieste...
Picard: Thank you Mr Data
Picard to Riker: Well, where the hell are we.
Riker: .54 parsecs from our original position. Almost a days travel in 30 seconds?
Data: Sir, I should realign the ships clock with starbase 4 10 subspace signal. To adjust for the time distortion.
Picard: Proceed
Data: Yes captain.
Dr Crusher: Captain, this is Crusher in sickbay.
Picard: Go ahead Doctor.
Dr Crusher: I'm getting, scatered report of minor injuries, what's happened?
Picard: The Enterprise just jumped through a wormhole. Apparently we were all unconscious for about 30 seconds.
Dr Crusher: Is everybody alright there?
Picard: There's little of no damage on the bridge, Doctor.
Dr Crusher: Acknowledged. Crusher out.
Picard: Ships status?
Riker: Reports coming in now, nothing serious so far.
La Forge: La Forge here captain, I've checked impulse engines and warp drive Sir, they appear to be unaffected.
Worf: Shield and weapons are fully functional.
Picard: Counciler, you alright?
Troi: I think so. I'm feeling a bit unfocused. <sigh> It'll pass.
Picard: No too bad, all things considered.
Riker: We're lucky we didn't end up half way across the galaxy, in the middle of next week.
Data: That was never actually a possibility. The wormholes small size and relatively short period would make this a local phenomenon.
Picard: There's still the anomalous M class planet we were going to investigate. Do we go back?
Data: The unpredictability of the wormhole would make an investigation a hazardous one. A probe launched from our current position would be more advisable.
Picard: Make it so.
Second attempt
Picard: What happened Data?
Data: The effect from the wormhole was rather intense.
Picard: So it would seem.
Data: Everyone but myself was rendered unconscious. My positronic system is immune to the effect.
Picard: How long were we out?
Data: 30 seconds Sir
Riker: Current position?
Ensign: .54 parsecs from our previous position. Bearing 285 mark 147
Picard: Could be worse?
Data: Yes Sir, the wormhole appears to have been a local phenomenon.
Dr Crusher: Crusher to bridge, what happened captain?
Picard: The enterprise went through a wormhole, Doctor. It seems the entire crew was unconscious for approximately 30 seconds.
Dr Crusher: Is anyone on the bridge hurt?
Picard: Apparently not.
Dr Crusher: I'll start checking the other decks, Crusher out.
Picard: Status reports
Worf: Shields and weapons systems unaffected.
Riker: No damage in engineering.
Troi: There's a general feeling of disorientation on board but, nothing serious as far as I can tell.
Picard: Very well. There's still that anomalous class M planet we were going to investigate.
Ensign: Replot a course to take us bac...
Data: Sir, it is likely the anomalous readings were the result of the wormholes effect. It was extremely unstable. I would recommend against returning. It might put the Enterprise at further risk.
Riker: Could launch a probe.
Data: That would certainly be sufficient Sir
Picard (looking worried): Make it so, and put out a hazard advisory to starfleet. Ensign, set a course for Evadne 4.
Ensign: Aye, Sir.
Picard: Engage.
 
78.33.152.88 (talk) 17:48, 23 October 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Dialogue 

message: Current version as I write this says:
:There is a major plot hole in this episode. At the end of the episode, the crew's memory of the last couple days is erased, Data is told not to tell them anything about the incident, the computers are adjusted to remove any information about the time lost and the ship's chronometers are reset to reflect only 30 minutes of lost time. However, when the ship evetually syncs with a federation time beakon they would find that they were off by a couple days and thus the investigation would start all over again.
This is not really a problem, as in the Star Trek universe, wormholes can be a form of time-travel. I'm not sure how best to write this explaination in an encyclopedic way, hence putting the comment here and not on the page itself. Whitepaw 11:08, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Eye of the Needle (Star Trek: Voyager) has just such an example - a micro wormhole with a twenty-year time difference between the two ends. Deadlock (talk) 10:27, 8 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Plot Hole" 

message: Lieutenant Worf's forearm was not injured, during the Enterprise's second encounter with the Paxans. GoodDay (talk) 17:46, 15 April 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Worf's injury 

message: Moving this here; it was in the "References" section:
:*Apparently, this episode was slightly controversial in that it had the same plotline as the Red Dwarf episode Thanks for the Memory.
This tidbit is unsourced trivia, and features improperly formatted titles.  It requires a reliable third-party source before it can be replaced in the article, and it does not belong in the "References" section, as it is not a reference. 12.233.146.130 (talk) 22:01, 1 February 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Non-reference