All Good Things...
| "All Good Things…" | |||
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation episode | |||
 Aboard the USS Pasteur, scanning the Devron System. | |||
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 25 (Part 1) Episode 26 (Part 2) | ||
| Directed by | Winrich Kolbe | ||
| Written by | Brannon Braga Ronald D. Moore | ||
| Production code | 277 (Part 1) 278 (Part 2) | ||
| Original air date | 23 May 1994 | ||
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| List of Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes | |||
"All Good Things…" is the series finale and final episode of the television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was written by Brannon Braga and Ronald D. Moore and directed by Winrich Kolbe. It originally aired on May 23, 1994. "All Good Things..." was broadcast as a two-hour episode; reruns are most often shown in edited form as two one-part episodes.
It stars Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton, Michael Dorn, Gates McFadden, Marina Sirtis, and Brent Spiner. Guest stars include John de Lancie, Colm Meaney, Andreas Katsulas, Patti Yasutake, Clyde Kusatsu, and Denise Crosby (who reprises her role as Tasha Yar, who died during the events of the first season episode, "Skin of Evil").
The episode concludes events of the series' 1987 premiere episode, "Encounter at Farpoint" in which the crew of the USS Enterprise-D, representing all humanity, was tried by Q. In the climactic scene, Q says, invoking the episode's title, "all good things must come to an end." When Picard says to Q subsequently in the post-apocalyptic, year 2079 "courtroom", "the last time I stood here was seven years ago..." and Q says "the trial never ends..." it suggests the events as depicted the entire series had been observed by Q, and when Q says "see you...out there..." it suggests Q will continue doing so, in the future, subsequent to the events depicted in this episode. Q is therefore suggested to be inherently omniscient, as well as omnipotent, although not omnipresent.
"All Good Things…" won the 1995 Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation.[1] The only other episode so honored was "The Inner Light".
During the filming of "All Good Things...," a behind-the-scenes retrospective documentary called Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek: The Next Generation, hosted by Jonathan Frakes, was also filmed, .[2]
[edit] Plot summary
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard inexplicably finds his mind jumping between the present (stardate 47988) and the past just prior to the USS Enterprise-D's first mission seven years earlier at Farpoint Station (in which Comdr. William Riker, Lt. Geordi La Forge, and Dr. Beverly Crusher and her young son, Wesley join the Enterprise crew), and twenty-five years into the future, where an aged Picard has retired to the family vineyard in Labarre, France. These jumps occur without warning, and the resulting discontinuity in Picard's behavior frequently leaves him and those around him confused.
In the present, Picard is ordered to take the Enterprise to the edge of the Romulan Neutral Zone to investigate a spatial anomaly.
In the future, he gains passage on the USS Pasteur, which is under the command of his ex-wife, Dr. Beverly Picard, who he convinces to find the anomaly.
In the past, despite having the Enterprise's mission to Farpoint Station cancelled by Starfleet to investigate the anomaly, Picard insists on continuing, believing the impending encounter with Q to be more important. After reaching the place where he had first encountered the Q in the form of a net near Farpoint Station and finding nothing there, Picard enters his ready room, only to find himself once again in Q's courtroom. Q reveals that he is the cause of Picard's time-skipping, and challenges Picard to solve the mystery of the anomaly, cryptically stating that Picard will destroy humanity.
As Jean-Luc Picard arrives at the anomaly in all three time periods, he discovers that the anomaly is much larger in the past, but does not exist at all in the future. As the past and present Enterprises scan the anomaly with tachyon beams, the USS Pasteur is attacked by Klingon ships, but the crew is saved due to the timely arrival of the future Enterprise under the command of Admiral William Riker. He fires on several of the attacking Klingon warships, which causes them to flee the neutral zone. It is revealed that Riker and Worf are in a feud over the late Enterprise counselor Deanna Troi, with whom both had a serious relationship. Q once again appears to Picard and takes him to billions of years in the past on Earth, where the anomaly, growing larger as it moves backwards in time, has taken over the whole of the Alpha Quadrant and has prevented the formation of life on Earth. When Picard returns to the future, he discovers the anomaly has appeared, created as a result of his orders, and the tachyon pulses from the three eras are sustaining it. Data and Geordi determine that they can stop the anomaly by having all three Enterprises fly into the center of it and create static warp shells. Picard relays the orders to each Enterprise. Each ship suffers warp core breaches, with Q telling the future Picard that "all good things must come to an end" just before the future Enterprise explodes.
Jean-Luc Picard finds himself facing Q, as humanity's judge in the same courtroom as seven years earlier. Q congratulates Picard for being able to think in multiple timelines simultaneously in order to solve the puzzle, which is proof that humanity can still evolve, much to the surprise of the Q Continuum. Q explains that the anomaly never actually existed and that his past and present have been restored. He then withdraws from the courtroom and bids farewell to Picard by saying "See you ... out there," echoing Picard's final line of the pilot episode "Let's see what's out there." Picard then returns to the Enterprise of the present and no longer skipping through time.
For the first time ever, Picard decides to join the crew's regular poker game, stating regret he had not done so before, saying "...and the sky's the limit," suggesting more adventures lay ahead for the crew (the crew of Star Trek: The Next Generation would soon be seen again, in the cinematic realm, as depicted in the events of Star Trek Generations).
[edit] Notes
- ^ The Hugo Awards by Year, World Science Fiction Society website, accessed 29 January 2008
- ^ Journey's End: The Saga of Star Trek - The Next Generation (1994) (TV)
[edit] External links
- All Good Things... (episode) at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)
- All Good Things... at StarTrek.com (Part 1)
- All Good Things... at StarTrek.com (Part 2)
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Devoutly Catholic mother of 7.
Although frequently cast in musicals, she herself was not a singer. Louanne Hogan was specifically under contract so that she could dub the singing in all her musicals.
Won the "Miss Camera Girl of 1942" title in Long Beach, Florida, and given a contract by Fox.
By the time she left Fox studios in 1956, she was making $3,500 a week.
Long-time husband, Paul Brooks, was an RKO contract player at one time, briefly appearing in the movie Those Endearing Young Charms (1945). He went by the stage name of Paul Brooks, but gave it all up to become a highly successful businessman.
Children with Paul Brooks: Paul F. Brinkman Jr. (b. 6 April 1947), Michael (b. 21 January 1949), Timothy (b. 2 August 1950), Jeanine (b. 5 March 1952), Lisabette (b. 21 November 1958), Maria (b. 10 January 1961), Christopher (b. 5 May 1965).
Two of her children, Michael and Christopher, predeceased her.
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