All Good Things... (Star Trek: The Next Generation)
| "All Good Things..." | |
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| Star Trek: The Next Generation episode | |
| Episode no. | Season 7 Episode 25 & 26 |
| Directed by | Winrich Kolbe |
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| Featured music | Dennis McCarthy |
| Cinematography by | Jonathan West |
| Production code | 277 & 278 |
| Original air date | May 23, 1994 |
| Running time | 105 minutes (runtime) |
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"All Good Things..." comprises the 25th and 26th episodes of the seventh season and the series finale of the syndicated American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It is the 177th and 178th episodes of the series overall. The title is derived from the expression "All good things must come to an end", a phrase used by the character "Q" during the episode itself.
The plot involves Captain Picard jumping through time and the formation of an anomaly that defies causality, the whole situation being a test that allows Picard to demonstrate human potential to the Q continuum by making an intuitive jump of thought to understand the cause of, and how to eliminate, the anomaly before it destroys humanity.
The finale was written as a "valentine" to the show's fans, and is now generally regarded as one of the series' best episodes.
Capt. Jean-Luc Picard inexplicably finds his mind jumping between three points in time: the present (stardate 47988); just prior to the starship USS Enterprise-D's first mission at Farpoint Station six years earlier; and over twenty-five years into the future, where an aged Picard has retired to the family vineyard in Labarre, France. These jumps occur without warning, and the resulting discontinuity in Picard's behavior frequently leaves him and those around him confused.
In the present, Picard is ordered to take the Enterprise to the edge of the Romulan Neutral Zone to investigate a spatial anomaly. In the future, he gains passage on the USS Pasteur, which is under the command of his now ex-wife, Dr. Beverly Picard, whom he convinces to find the anomaly.
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