Future's End

This episode is a good one. Time traveling to the year1996. Good set of acting. I seen this episode maybe 15 times or so.

This should be a standard Star Trek time travel episode. And instead, the writers said, "how about we create a villain who knows everything, can anticipate anything, and do literally anything" How can we do all this? Unexplained reasons! How does he MASTER technology that's literally hundreds of years beyond his comprehension? More unexplained reasons! Does the villain even operate consistently or use mild logic with his seemingly endless magical powers? ROFL Nope! He's gotta do things that drive the plot so things can happen! I could never fathom a way in which my intelligence could be more insulted... oh wait, nevermind, I just had to give the episode more time. Oh wait, there's a part 2!!!

... the past is hate. Even the contemporary 90s. Time travel works, if Star Trek travels between times in the future. See e.g. 'Yesterday's Enterprise,' season 3 of The Next Generation series. Star Trek: Voyager's universe was so beautifully developed, that you immediately spot that the real-life 90s were hate (albeit an alternate-universe-90s were Microsoft rules earth). Cinema flic Star Trek IV tried the same, and traveled back to their real-life 80s. Hate. Look at medieval paintings. All the hyped Venetian maestros - really - painted hate. Google them and explain to me how they are not hate. (Some ancient Dutch paintings are watchable because they drew nature.) If contemporary times were bearable, the best existing show ever, Voyager, would have nailed it. They are really not.

Ed Begley and Sarah Silverman. The crew is minding their own business when they are attacked by a small ship from the 29th Century. They are told by the pilot that Voyager must be destroyed because it is instrumental in the deaths of billions of people in his time. Voyager sails into a rift and finds itself in 1996. The crew members are transported to the surface to find the man who attacked them. They run into a man who has commandeered the time traveller's ship, planning to use it. He must be stopped. He is formidable because he has future technology. I love these time travel shows and look forward to the second part.

This is a very well written episode. Perfect pacing, good performances, impactful plot. Very cool guest star, some screen time for the Doctor, I could hardly ask for more.

1996 really was the peak of our civilization.

Don't listen to the people complaining about the time travel paradox not making sense. Time travel never makes sense in Star Trek. If you want time travel with consistent, logical rules, look for hard science fiction instead of Star Trek.