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* Vaccination there should start next week. "Canada approves first COVID-19 vaccine, expects inoculations next week:" https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-canada-vaccine-idUSKBN28J2AT
* Can we stop having cruises now? "'Cruise To Nowhere' Returns To Singapore Early After Positive Coronavirus Test:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/09/944585484/cruise-to-nowhere-returns-to-singapore-early-after-positive-covid-19-test
* "Experts welcome France’s Covid-19 vaccine strategy – with caveats:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20201208-experts-welcome-france-s-covid-19-vaccine-strategy-%E2%80%93-with-caveats
* "Turkey in Weekend Lockdown With Coronavirus Cases at Record Highs:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-12-05/turkey-in-weekend-lockdown-as-coronavirus-cases-hit-record-highs
* "Covid: South Korea raises alert level amid spike in cases:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55206419
* "U.S. Ranks Behind EU, Australia, U.K. in Vaccine Buys But Says It Will Meet Goal:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-09/which-countries-have-reserved-the-most-covid-19-vaccines-u-s-is-32nd-on-list?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj
* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 12/9/20 are 15,330,000. The official death toll is 289,000. The real number is likely much higher.
* "US virus deaths hit record levels with the holidays ahead:" https://apnews.com/article/us-coronavirus-deaths-hit-record-levels-9ce64924281ff1058fbf391407c8ba50
* "‘There’s No Place for Them to Go’: I.C.U. Beds Near Capacity Across U.S.:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/09/us/covid-hospitals-icu-capacity.html
* "Among the deadliest days in U.S. history: Wednesday.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/among-deadliest-days-in-u-s-history-wednesday-97453125778
* "Chris Hayes: I'm enraged over America's 'depraved' Covid indifference:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-i-m-enraged-over-america-s-depraved-covid-indifference-97441861952
* "U.S. Supplies of Covid-19 PPE Fall Short of Targets:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-supplies-of-covid-19-ppe-fall-short-of-targets-11607509800?mod=hp_lead_pos2
* "Giuliani witness whose testimony went viral says she isn’t self-quarantining despite his covid-19 diagnosis:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mellissa-carone-covid-rudy-giuliani/2020/12/08/f9d40afc-3981-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html
* "Mellissa Carone: ‘I Wasn’t Drunk’ During Bizarro Giuliani Hearing:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/mellissa-carone-swears-she-wasnt-drunk-during-bizarro-rudy-giuliani-hearing
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* "Hunter Biden says U.S. attorney is investigating his tax affairs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/hunter-biden-says-us-attorney-is-investigating-his-tax-affairs-443986
* I still don't understand how they have standing or why "I don't like the results" is grounds for disenfranchising entire states. "17 states tell Supreme Court they support Texas bid to reverse Biden win:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/states-tell-supreme-court-they-support-texas-bid-to-reverse-biden-win.html
* "'As dumb as you think it is': 17 states say Texas should decide swing states' elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-as-dumb-as-you-think-it-is-17-states-say-texas-should-decide-swing-states-elections-97452613926
* "Courts bear up against anti-democracy Republicans' attacks on 2020 Joe Biden election win:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/courts-bear-up-against-anti-democracy-republicans-attacks-on-2020-joe-biden-election-win-97454149739
* "Michigan AG on Texas AG's pro-Trump lawsuit: 'Stay in your lane':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/michigan-ag-on-texas-ag-s-pro-trump-lawsuit-stay-in-your-lane-97443909623
* "Joy Reid says GOP efforts to subvert the election is ‘not about fraud’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-says-gop-efforts-to-subvert-the-election-is-not-about-fraud-97437765792
* "Election officials face threats, intimidation as Trump pushes false fraud claims:" https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-threats/election-officials-face-threats-intimidation-as-trump-pushes-false-fraud-claims-idUSKBN28I1D9
* "Rep. Johnson on receiving threats for questioning Rudy Giuliani: My job is to protect democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-johnson-on-receiving-threats-for-questioning-rudy-giuliani-my-job-is-to-protect-democracy-97439301877
* "Protesters spent nearly an hour outside my home chanting about conspiracy theories. Here's what I learned:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/opinions/michigan-armed-people-screaming-falsehoods-obscenities-benson/index.html
* Republicans are such cowards that they felt they needed to bring guns to issue death threats against a group of unarmed children, the oldest of them twelve, at their home in Idaho. As they were demanding the right to kill anyone they want for fun, I suppose it's on brand.
* "Anti-mask protesters — some of whom banged on doors of officials’ homes — overwhelm police, force closure of public health meeting in Idaho:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-idaho-anti-mask-protests-20201209-pp26v6m7frdxngf62ouiakcvxm-story.html
* "Joe Biden’s one simple promise undeniably proves he’ll be a better president than Donald Trump:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/07/joe-biden-donald-trump-lgbt-rights-difference-plan-equality-act/
* I’d have preferred Marcia Fudge. "Vilsack chosen as Biden's Agriculture secretary:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/tom-vilsak-agriculture-secretary-biden-443825
* "Biden to tap Marcia Fudge to lead housing agency:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/biden-to-tap-marcia-fudge-to-lead-housing-agency-443767
* "Biden picks retired general Lloyd Austin to run Pentagon:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/07/lloyd-austin-biden-secretary-defense-frontrunner-contender-443479
* "SPAC with ties to Biden Cabinet picks sees surge in support from Wall Street after offering 'access':" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/spac-with-ties-to-biden-cabinet-picks-sees-surge-in-wall-street-support.html
* "House approves defense bill with veto-proof majority after Trump urges GOP opposition:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/politics/defense-bill-house-vote-trump-veto-threat/index.html
* "White House proposes dramatically lower unemployment benefit in exchange for $600 stimulus check:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/08/stimulus-checks-economic-relief-package/
* "Georgia Republicans vow legislation to limit mail voting despite no evidence of fraud:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/georgia-republicans-vow-legislation-limit-mail-voting-despite-no-evidence-n1250431
* "Facebook must be broken up, the US government says in a groundbreaking lawsuit:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/tech/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-ftc-attorney-generals/index.html
* Extended Michael Eric Dyson Interview:
* "Greenhouse gas emissions transforming the Arctic into 'an entirely different climate':" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/arctic-report-climate-crisis-wildfires-ice-loss
* "The Clinton Years, or the 1990s: Crash Course US History #45:"
* "Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202:"
* "Christopher Krebs Debunks The President's Lies About Election Fraud:"
* "Keeping Up with Coronavirus - Rudy Giuliani Gets COVID-19:"
* "Votegasm 2020: Peach State Edition:"
* I started out Tuesday short sleeped and exhausted. Wednesday, I needed to make a whole bunch of phone calls during business hours. Then the Apple Identity theft scammer cascade started, though I only got two, so I'm waiting for the other 18 autodialers to hit. When I finally was ready for bed, Livia had pissed in the middle of it. She'd a completely fresh litterbox I'd heard her use earlier. My theory is all the schedule disruption was stressing her out and then Squirrel came back from mandatory COVID testing at his work at a weird time via the patio door. I saw her panic, presumable mistaking him for a stranger. I think this is when it happened. It soaked all the way to the mattress. Cue more than an hour and a half of cleaning etc..
* TNG: Season 7 Rewatch:
- 7.25 All Good Things, pt. 2. They debate what to do with the knowledge that Picard somehow ends the human race. Not acting is as likely cause thatdestructionn as acting. They decide to carry on as normal. It is suggested thatthe time shifts may be Q trying to give the a clue since, as data points out, Q has a similar attitude to Picard as a Master might have to a beloved pet.
In the future they meet up with grey fox Worf, who is no longer on the High Council. They have no permission to enter the nertal zone. "If admiral Riker had given you a cloak you would have been safe." Picard plays on his sense of honor and Worf lets them cross, but only with him on board. They have n cloak and aren't well armed.
In the past they head for the Neutral Zone. Deanna takes him aside privately to talk to him about crew response to his odd orders. They are going to be late picking up Riker, Crusher, and LaForge.
In the present he's talking to the Romulans and they agree one ship from each side should investigate. The anomoly is bigger in the past and missing in the future. This is what we call a Hint. Picard doesn't take it and insists they stay undermining Crusher, who takes him to task in private. She addresses the brain damage elephant in the room. They unwisely stay another six hours. I can see why she divorced him.
Modern Picard has data modify a new sensor, also not taking a hint. Geordi gets a headache because his optic nerve is regenerating. It's spreading. The anomaly is an eruption of anti-time. If it collides with regular time? Boom!
Not taking the hint either, Past Picard has them do the same experiment. Meanwhile, the Romulans are attacking Crusher's ship, and kicking their asses. Riker comes to the rescue. The Medical Ship has a core breach. They get beamed out. Testosterone poisoning leads to bickering. They end up sedating Picard and leaving.
Back in the present, the temporal anomaly causes spontaneous abortion and may kill them all. Past Piard wants to find out how far the temporal reversion reaches. Q shows up to be unhelpful. Will collapsing the anomaly save everyone or kill them. Q takes him back to early earth and the anomaly has eaten the whole quadrant. he shows Picard the primordial goo from which life arises, only it doesn't because Picard caused the anomaly.
Past Data says they need to see the interior of the anomaly so Present Picar has data do it when it's smaller. The three tachyon pulses from three time periods are converging in one point in space. This has been slower than zombies laying monopoly. Beverly confronts Will about his feud with Worf over Deanna's death. Will stood in the way of them getting together.
Future Riker dismisses Picard's warning about tachyon pulses because brain damage. Data actually backs him up on the paradox and time slips. Data's explanation makes sense to Geordi. They agree to go back to the Devron system to see the beginning of the anomaly. Yep. They caused it. Present and Past Picards turn off the tachyon pulse. It doesn't stop it. They need to repair the eruption by flying into it.
They all need to do it. Tasha Yarr questions the order. Past Picard talks them all into it in a stirring speech. They do it. So do the other versions. The meet in the middle. Past Enterprise explodes, then present enterprise. Q says good bye to elder Picard.
Boom! Picard is in the court room again. He thinks he lost, but he won, but the trial never ends. So basically enlightenment is the goal. He goes backto the present and confirms the date. All is well. Only Picard remembers. There is no proof it happened.
The Present bridge crew are playing poker and trying to work out why Picard told them about the future thus polluting the time line. Data says the timeline has already changed. Riker says maybe he told them so they could avoid certain things. Worf agrees. Deanna turns up; Picard joins them.
Here Endeth TNG.
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* Full list of Resistance and charity links has been migrated to my profile as it was getting out of hand.
The help links are at the bottom under the cut.
* Help save ANWR from drilling! https://thisfinecrew.dreamwidth.org/246991.html
* "8 Overlooked LGBTQ Groups to Donate to for Giving Tuesday:" https://www.advocate.com/commentary/2019/12/02/8-overlooked-lgbtq-groups-donate-giving-tuesday
* "Protect the Results - Organizing to Protect the Results of the 2020 Election:" https://protecttheresults.com/
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* What to help fight for queer people in Africa? Try the Initiative Sankofa D’Afrique de l’Ouest www.ISDAO.org
* Things you can do to help save the post office: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/626472377433358336
* "When and how to vote in all 50 states:" https://www.axios.com/how-to-vote-by-state-2020-307c3d17-ee57-4a1b-8bad-182ca1cdb752.html
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* Organizations to help trans folk: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620857152453640195/about-us
* "How to Safely and Ethically Film Police Misconduct:" https://www.teenvogue.com/story/how-to-film-police-safely
* Master Post for how to help organizations fighting Police violence: https://gwydionmisha.tumblr.com/post/620861026680881152/oberynmartell-list-of-black-lives-matter-and
* How to donate to Doctors Without Borders: https://donate.doctorswithoutborders.org/onetime.cfm?source=ADD200U0U00&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=googlepaid&utm_content=brand&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIz8D9kYu46QIVqh6tBh2WogxQEAAYASAAEgK4FfD_BwE
* "Covid 19 Support for Indigenous Communities:" https://bibliomancer7.tumblr.com/post/616704253038395392/covid-19-support-for-indigenous-communities
* "Navajo Nation COVID-19 Relief Fund:" http://www.nndoh.org/donate.html
* "SUPPORT WORKERS IN CRISIS:" https://ofwemergencyfund.org/
* "Help the California food industry survive this crisis:" https://www.change.org/p/governor-gavin-newsom-support-the-california-food-industries-most-vulnerable-workers
* "Support Artists Impacted By the Covid-19 Pandemic:" https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-covid-19-fundraiser
* Register to vote: https://vote.gov/
* A list of organizations to help you run for office: http://lovingmyselfishard.tumblr.com/post/167330144634/psst-hey
* The Indivisble guide exists to help you organize effective resistance: https://indivisible.org/
* Have something you want to tell your Congress Critters? If you can not protest in person, here are some other options:
Call the Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to the representative of your choice.
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* Birthday/Solstice master list: https://gwydion.dreamwidth.org/2108835.html
* Vaccination there should start next week. "Canada approves first COVID-19 vaccine, expects inoculations next week:" https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-canada-vaccine-idUSKBN28J2AT
* Can we stop having cruises now? "'Cruise To Nowhere' Returns To Singapore Early After Positive Coronavirus Test:" https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/12/09/944585484/cruise-to-nowhere-returns-to-singapore-early-after-positive-covid-19-test
* "Experts welcome France’s Covid-19 vaccine strategy – with caveats:" https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20201208-experts-welcome-france-s-covid-19-vaccine-strategy-%E2%80%93-with-caveats
* "Turkey in Weekend Lockdown With Coronavirus Cases at Record Highs:" https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2020-12-05/turkey-in-weekend-lockdown-as-coronavirus-cases-hit-record-highs
* "Covid: South Korea raises alert level amid spike in cases:" https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-55206419
* "U.S. Ranks Behind EU, Australia, U.K. in Vaccine Buys But Says It Will Meet Goal:" https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-12-09/which-countries-have-reserved-the-most-covid-19-vaccines-u-s-is-32nd-on-list?srnd=premium&sref=MIBMEEoj
* Total confirmed COVID-19 cases in the U.S.A for 12/9/20 are 15,330,000. The official death toll is 289,000. The real number is likely much higher.
* "US virus deaths hit record levels with the holidays ahead:" https://apnews.com/article/us-coronavirus-deaths-hit-record-levels-9ce64924281ff1058fbf391407c8ba50
* "‘There’s No Place for Them to Go’: I.C.U. Beds Near Capacity Across U.S.:" https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/12/09/us/covid-hospitals-icu-capacity.html
* "Among the deadliest days in U.S. history: Wednesday.:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/among-deadliest-days-in-u-s-history-wednesday-97453125778
* "Chris Hayes: I'm enraged over America's 'depraved' Covid indifference:" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/chris-hayes-i-m-enraged-over-america-s-depraved-covid-indifference-97441861952
* "U.S. Supplies of Covid-19 PPE Fall Short of Targets:" https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-supplies-of-covid-19-ppe-fall-short-of-targets-11607509800?mod=hp_lead_pos2
* "Giuliani witness whose testimony went viral says she isn’t self-quarantining despite his covid-19 diagnosis:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/mellissa-carone-covid-rudy-giuliani/2020/12/08/f9d40afc-3981-11eb-bc68-96af0daae728_story.html
* "Mellissa Carone: ‘I Wasn’t Drunk’ During Bizarro Giuliani Hearing:" https://www.thedailybeast.com/mellissa-carone-swears-she-wasnt-drunk-during-bizarro-rudy-giuliani-hearing
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* "Hunter Biden says U.S. attorney is investigating his tax affairs:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/09/hunter-biden-says-us-attorney-is-investigating-his-tax-affairs-443986
* I still don't understand how they have standing or why "I don't like the results" is grounds for disenfranchising entire states. "17 states tell Supreme Court they support Texas bid to reverse Biden win:" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/states-tell-supreme-court-they-support-texas-bid-to-reverse-biden-win.html
* "'As dumb as you think it is': 17 states say Texas should decide swing states' elections:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/-as-dumb-as-you-think-it-is-17-states-say-texas-should-decide-swing-states-elections-97452613926
* "Courts bear up against anti-democracy Republicans' attacks on 2020 Joe Biden election win:" https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/courts-bear-up-against-anti-democracy-republicans-attacks-on-2020-joe-biden-election-win-97454149739
* "Michigan AG on Texas AG's pro-Trump lawsuit: 'Stay in your lane':" https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/michigan-ag-on-texas-ag-s-pro-trump-lawsuit-stay-in-your-lane-97443909623
* "Joy Reid says GOP efforts to subvert the election is ‘not about fraud’:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/joy-reid-says-gop-efforts-to-subvert-the-election-is-not-about-fraud-97437765792
* "Election officials face threats, intimidation as Trump pushes false fraud claims:" https://www.reuters.com/article/usa-election-threats/election-officials-face-threats-intimidation-as-trump-pushes-false-fraud-claims-idUSKBN28I1D9
* "Rep. Johnson on receiving threats for questioning Rudy Giuliani: My job is to protect democracy:" https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/watch/rep-johnson-on-receiving-threats-for-questioning-rudy-giuliani-my-job-is-to-protect-democracy-97439301877
* "Protesters spent nearly an hour outside my home chanting about conspiracy theories. Here's what I learned:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/opinions/michigan-armed-people-screaming-falsehoods-obscenities-benson/index.html
* Republicans are such cowards that they felt they needed to bring guns to issue death threats against a group of unarmed children, the oldest of them twelve, at their home in Idaho. As they were demanding the right to kill anyone they want for fun, I suppose it's on brand.
* "Anti-mask protesters — some of whom banged on doors of officials’ homes — overwhelm police, force closure of public health meeting in Idaho:" https://www.chicagotribune.com/coronavirus/ct-nw-idaho-anti-mask-protests-20201209-pp26v6m7frdxngf62ouiakcvxm-story.html
* "Joe Biden’s one simple promise undeniably proves he’ll be a better president than Donald Trump:" https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2020/12/07/joe-biden-donald-trump-lgbt-rights-difference-plan-equality-act/
* I’d have preferred Marcia Fudge. "Vilsack chosen as Biden's Agriculture secretary:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/tom-vilsak-agriculture-secretary-biden-443825
* "Biden to tap Marcia Fudge to lead housing agency:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/08/biden-to-tap-marcia-fudge-to-lead-housing-agency-443767
* "Biden picks retired general Lloyd Austin to run Pentagon:" https://www.politico.com/news/2020/12/07/lloyd-austin-biden-secretary-defense-frontrunner-contender-443479
* "SPAC with ties to Biden Cabinet picks sees surge in support from Wall Street after offering 'access':" https://www.cnbc.com/2020/12/09/spac-with-ties-to-biden-cabinet-picks-sees-surge-in-wall-street-support.html
* "House approves defense bill with veto-proof majority after Trump urges GOP opposition:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/08/politics/defense-bill-house-vote-trump-veto-threat/index.html
* "White House proposes dramatically lower unemployment benefit in exchange for $600 stimulus check:" https://www.washingtonpost.com/us-policy/2020/12/08/stimulus-checks-economic-relief-package/
* "Georgia Republicans vow legislation to limit mail voting despite no evidence of fraud:" https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/georgia-republicans-vow-legislation-limit-mail-voting-despite-no-evidence-n1250431
* "Facebook must be broken up, the US government says in a groundbreaking lawsuit:" https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/09/tech/facebook-antitrust-lawsuit-ftc-attorney-generals/index.html
* Extended Michael Eric Dyson Interview:
* "Greenhouse gas emissions transforming the Arctic into 'an entirely different climate':" https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/08/arctic-report-climate-crisis-wildfires-ice-loss
* "The Clinton Years, or the 1990s: Crash Course US History #45:"
* "Fate, Family, and Oedipus Rex: Crash Course Literature 202:"
* "Christopher Krebs Debunks The President's Lies About Election Fraud:"
* "Keeping Up with Coronavirus - Rudy Giuliani Gets COVID-19:"
* "Votegasm 2020: Peach State Edition:"
* I started out Tuesday short sleeped and exhausted. Wednesday, I needed to make a whole bunch of phone calls during business hours. Then the Apple Identity theft scammer cascade started, though I only got two, so I'm waiting for the other 18 autodialers to hit. When I finally was ready for bed, Livia had pissed in the middle of it. She'd a completely fresh litterbox I'd heard her use earlier. My theory is all the schedule disruption was stressing her out and then Squirrel came back from mandatory COVID testing at his work at a weird time via the patio door. I saw her panic, presumable mistaking him for a stranger. I think this is when it happened. It soaked all the way to the mattress. Cue more than an hour and a half of cleaning etc..
* TNG: Season 7 Rewatch:
- 7.25 All Good Things, pt. 2. They debate what to do with the knowledge that Picard somehow ends the human race. Not acting is as likely cause thatdestructionn as acting. They decide to carry on as normal. It is suggested thatthe time shifts may be Q trying to give the a clue since, as data points out, Q has a similar attitude to Picard as a Master might have to a beloved pet.
In the future they meet up with grey fox Worf, who is no longer on the High Council. They have no permission to enter the nertal zone. "If admiral Riker had given you a cloak you would have been safe." Picard plays on his sense of honor and Worf lets them cross, but only with him on board. They have n cloak and aren't well armed.
In the past they head for the Neutral Zone. Deanna takes him aside privately to talk to him about crew response to his odd orders. They are going to be late picking up Riker, Crusher, and LaForge.
In the present he's talking to the Romulans and they agree one ship from each side should investigate. The anomoly is bigger in the past and missing in the future. This is what we call a Hint. Picard doesn't take it and insists they stay undermining Crusher, who takes him to task in private. She addresses the brain damage elephant in the room. They unwisely stay another six hours. I can see why she divorced him.
Modern Picard has data modify a new sensor, also not taking a hint. Geordi gets a headache because his optic nerve is regenerating. It's spreading. The anomaly is an eruption of anti-time. If it collides with regular time? Boom!
Not taking the hint either, Past Picard has them do the same experiment. Meanwhile, the Romulans are attacking Crusher's ship, and kicking their asses. Riker comes to the rescue. The Medical Ship has a core breach. They get beamed out. Testosterone poisoning leads to bickering. They end up sedating Picard and leaving.
Back in the present, the temporal anomaly causes spontaneous abortion and may kill them all. Past Piard wants to find out how far the temporal reversion reaches. Q shows up to be unhelpful. Will collapsing the anomaly save everyone or kill them. Q takes him back to early earth and the anomaly has eaten the whole quadrant. he shows Picard the primordial goo from which life arises, only it doesn't because Picard caused the anomaly.
Past Data says they need to see the interior of the anomaly so Present Picar has data do it when it's smaller. The three tachyon pulses from three time periods are converging in one point in space. This has been slower than zombies laying monopoly. Beverly confronts Will about his feud with Worf over Deanna's death. Will stood in the way of them getting together.
Future Riker dismisses Picard's warning about tachyon pulses because brain damage. Data actually backs him up on the paradox and time slips. Data's explanation makes sense to Geordi. They agree to go back to the Devron system to see the beginning of the anomaly. Yep. They caused it. Present and Past Picards turn off the tachyon pulse. It doesn't stop it. They need to repair the eruption by flying into it.
They all need to do it. Tasha Yarr questions the order. Past Picard talks them all into it in a stirring speech. They do it. So do the other versions. The meet in the middle. Past Enterprise explodes, then present enterprise. Q says good bye to elder Picard.
Boom! Picard is in the court room again. He thinks he lost, but he won, but the trial never ends. So basically enlightenment is the goal. He goes backto the present and confirms the date. All is well. Only Picard remembers. There is no proof it happened.
The Present bridge crew are playing poker and trying to work out why Picard told them about the future thus polluting the time line. Data says the timeline has already changed. Riker says maybe he told them so they could avoid certain things. Worf agrees. Deanna turns up; Picard joins them.
Here Endeth TNG.
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