

The producers were concerned with the confusing nature of the initial proposal, but felt that further changes greatly improved it. The crew of an alternative Enterprise realises what is happening and seeks to return him to his own reality, but, after an attack by a Bajoran ship, a space-time fissure explodes, causing hundreds of thousands of alternative versions of the Enterprise to enter the same universe.īraga intended to focus the "Parallels" on Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart), but this was changed to Worf in order to make the differences more obvious across the timelines, as Braga worried that Picard's relationships could not significantly differ across near-universes. Worf ( Michael Dorn) returns from a bat'leth tournament and slowly discovers that he is being moved across parallel universes. Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D). Executive producer Jeri Taylor wrote its final scene, but was uncredited. The episode was written by Brannon Braga, and directed by Robert Wiemer. It was originally released on November 29, 1993, in broadcast syndication. " Parallels" is the 11th episode of the seventh season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, the 163rd overall.

Star Trek: The Next Generation (season 7) 11th episode of the seventh season of Star Trek: The Next Generation " Parallels"
