We’ll Always Have Paris
- by Deborah Dean Davis and Hannah Louise Shearer, directed by Robert Becker
- TV Episode
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “We’ll Always Have Paris” by Deborah Dean Davis and Hannah Louise Shearer, directed by Robert Becker , Star Trek: The Next Generation, s01e24 (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 2 May 1988) [syndicated].
Temporal distortions, such as time loops and mixed times, are rippling outward from an isolated planetoid where Dr. Manheim and Jenice Manheim, an old flame of Picard’s, built their time/gravity research lab.
—Michael Main
Sensors show nothing, sir, But it appears a moment in time repeated itself exactly, for everyone.
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- Time Periods
- Near Future, AD 2300 and Beyond: A.D. 2364
- Timeline Models
- Adjacent Times: at the turbolift and elsewhere
- Time Loop: short time loop in the intro sequence
- Themes
- Mind Travel: Dr. Manheim may be experiencing mind travel. In sickbay, he says My mind is floating between two places.
- Self-Visitation: Picard, Riker, and Data see their earlier selves at the turbolift.
- Selves-Visitation: Data in the second lab
- Simulation: Paris on the holodeck from Picard’s past with Jenice
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- “We’ll Always Have Paris” by Deborah Dean Davis and Hannah Louise Shearer, directed by Robert Becker , Star Trek: The Next Generation, s01e24 (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 2 May 1988) [syndicated].