LaForge seems ready to treksplain what’s going on, but he’s jumped by an unfrozen Romulan, and then there’s a flash, and he and his attacker drop. We see the Enterprise blow up, then watch as time rewinds and the ship un-explodes. They appear to be trying to shut down an energy beam that seems to have caused the warp core breech on the Enterprise, and there are some unexplained dark spots in the Romulan’s power core, which Data thinks might be organic.
Troi notes that the Romulans aren’t at their battle stations rather, they seem to be evacuating to the Enterprise-D. Next the team beams aboard the Romulan Warbird, with a nice little shout-out to Troi’s involuntary undercover gig (s6e14 “ Face of the Enemy“). It turns out the anti-time-bubble armbands don’t completely protect the wearer but otherwise, nothing really comes from this plot point. Picard has a laughing fit, having drawn a smiley face with his finger in the exploding cloud. Most troubling, In engineering, a warp core breech is in progress - a puffy cloud is bursting out of the warp core, and Data says time is not actually frozen - he can track the explosion expanding very slowly. (Troi doesn’t notice that one of the Romulans in sickbay was only pretending to be frozen.) On the bridge, Riker is on the floor and armed Romulans are looming over him in a transporter room, Worf has been beaming Romlans to sickbay and in sickbay, a Romulan has fired a disruptor at Crusher. LaForge rigs anti-time-bubble armbands so the crew can board the time-frozen Enterprise-D to see what’s going on. They find the Enterprise-D and a Romulan Warbird frozen in time, apparently in the middle of a battle. Picard, Data, Troi and LaForge are lounging in the back section of a runabout (seen only in this episode), reflecting on a conference they just attended, when they start running into pockets of space where time moves at different rates.
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