"Yesterday's Enterprise" is a television episode of the science fiction television show Star Trek: The Next Generation. The fifteenth episode of the third season, "Yesterday's Enterprise" first aired in syndication the week of February 19, 1990. In the plot, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D must decide whether to send the time-travelling Enterprise-C back through a temporal rift to its certain destruction in order to protect the timeline.
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"Yesterday's Enterprise" is a television episode of the science fiction television show Star Trek: The Next Generation. The fifteenth episode of the third season, "Yesterday's Enterprise" first aired in syndication the week of February 19, 1990. In the plot, the crew of the USS Enterprise-D must decide whether to send the time-travelling Enterprise-C back through a temporal rift to its certain destruction in order to protect the timeline.
The plot for "Yesterday's Enterprise" came from the uniting of two story ideas; one which featured the crew of the time-travelling Enterprise-C, and another episode which featured the return of Denise Crosby, whose character had been killed in the show's first season. Trent Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Stillwell rewrote the story to more prominently feature the character of Guinan, and the script was completed by a team of five writers.
The Enterprise-D encounters a rift in space-time while on a routine mission. As they monitor the anomaly, the...
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