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 A MATTER OF TIME  (#209)
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A MYSTERIOUS VISITOR FROM THE FUTURE HOLDS THE KEY TO A CRITICAL MISSION.

   [ Enterprise main bridge, a small ship is on the viewscreen;
     Berlingoff Rasmussen suddenly beams in front of Picard ]

   [ scene from inside a control room, on planet Penthara Four ]

   [ Picard and Rasmussen, in the ready room ]

  Picard:  There are twenty million lives down there;
           and you know what will happen to them.

   [ the Enterprise is enveloped by a white energy beam ]

WILL HE HELP PICARD SAVE A DYING PLANET...?

   [ Picard and Rasmussen, in the ready room (again) ]

  Rasmussen:  It sounds to me like you are trying to manipulate the future.

...OR WATCH A RISKY EXPERIMENT TRIGGER UNTOLD DEVASTATION.

   [ white energy beams are projected from the forward main deflector;
     the Saucer Module ventral phaser array fires in the same direction ]

   [ Worf on the bridge; the ship is shaking; he looks concerned ]

   [ Picard and Rasmussen, in the ready room (again) ]

  Rasmussen:  Everyone dies, Captain...

   [ Riker on the bridge [

  Riker:  Fire.

  Rasmussen:  ...it's just a question of when.

   [ the Enterprise enveloped in the energy field ]

   [ Riker and Picard, and Rasmussen on the bridge; the ship is shaking ]

DEADLY DILEMMA, ON AN ALL NEW EPISODE OF STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.


Short version:

  A mysterious visitor from the future could save a planet from 
  total devastation, on STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION.