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Star Trek: The Next Generation :: Future Imperfect (04x08)
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| Title: | Future Imperfect |
| Episode #: | 04x08 |
| Production Number: | 182 |
| Original Airdate: | Monday November 12th, 1990 |
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 CA (Télé-Québec) |
Nov 12, 1990 |
 IE (BBC TWO) |
May 25, 1994 |
 FR (BBC TWO) |
May 25, 1994 |
 UK (BBC TWO) |
May 25, 1994 |
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Stardate: 44286.5 On his birthday, Riker leads an away mission to Alpha Onias III in search of a suspected Romulan outpost. While on the planet, the away team loses consciousness due to noxious gases. When he awakens in sickbay, sixteen years have passed and he is now captain of the Enterprise. Not only that, he has a young son named Jean-Luc, a Federation-Romulan peace treaty is imminent, and he is expected to be the chief negotiator.
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Wil Wheaton (Wesley Crusher) does not appear in this episode.
| Guest Star Andreas Katsulas, playing Ambassador Tomalak, is better known for his major role as the alien G'Kar on Babylon 5.
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Title: Future Imperfect
English language supports a number of different verb tenses, one of which is called the perfect aspect, which is used to convey the consequences of an action, rather than an action in itself.
It has three main forms, the present perfect, the past perfect (also called the "pluperfect"), and the future perfect tense. An example of each would be:
Present perfect -- "John has gone to the store."
Pluperfect --"John had gone to the store before his wife gave him the shopping list."
Future perfect -- "John will have gone to the store by this evening"
The title hearkens to the last of these, as a play on the term. Since the future created by the boy and the machines wasn't perfect -- it had flaws which only Riker could recognize, it represented an "imperfect future", and hence the title.
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