Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek : The Next Generationseason 3 , episode 15 , " Yesterday ’s endeavour " introduced an alternative universe version of the USS Enterprise - D , which has some distinct differences from its Prime Universe counterpart . " Yesterday ’s Enterprise " stay on one ofTNG’sfinest hours , and is often remembered as the episode that fetch back Denise Crosby ’s Tasha Yar only to kill her off again . In one ofTNG’sbest cold opens , the engagement - damaged enterprisingness - C come out from a bust in spacetime , causing everything on the go-ahead - D to dislodge . Suddenly , the Federation is at war with the Klingons andthe endeavor - Dis the first Galaxy - Class warship .
Captain Jean - Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ) remains in command of the Enterprise , but he appears exhausted and unusually weary about the Enterprise - C. An outside team find the injuredCaptain Rachel Garrett ( Tricia O’Neil)on the bridge of the Enterprise - C , and she cursorily realizes that something is amiss . Picard reveals thatGarrett and her ship have traveled twenty - two years into the future tense , and the endeavor - C captain eventually agrees to travel back in time to restore the proper timeline . With a riveting narration and compelling guest characters , almost everything about " Yesterday ’s Enterprise " works , and all the changes in the enterprisingness - D really enrich the tarradiddle .
7Battle Enterprise-D Has Darker Lighting & A Redressed Bridge
The Enterprise-D Looks More Battle-Ready Than Ever
When the span of the Enterprise - D first work shift , the most obvious difference is the modification in lighting . The original bridge deck is well - lit , with bright clean luminance and an almost homey feel . The new nosepiece , however , is much darker , with less ambient light and blue-blooded overhead fire up rather than ashen . Everything on the bridge feels more intense with this light , successfully conveying the mind that this Enterprise - D is always on high alert . The lighting has been darkened throughout the ship , as well , and everything has a more stern and running looking at .
The Federation flagship , the USS Enterprise , has a farseeing , fabled story , and each interpretation of the Hellenic Star Trek ballistic capsule has its own unequaled look .
The ship ’s nosepiece configuration has also been altered . Captain Picard now sit higher , with no other chairs around him on the command deck . Commander William Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) remain First Officer but now stand at the tactical stationrather than sit next to Picard . There are more consoles on the bridgework , as well , suggesting this initiative - D has more weapons system and tactical ability than the original one . Even Picard ’s quick room is different — not only is it darker , but all of Picard ’s mementos and trinkets have been remove .
6Battle Enterprise TNG Crew Wears Different Uniforms
Every Officer Wears Weapons Belts Equipped With Phasers At All Times
Captain Picard and the rest of the Enterprise - D work party wear dissimilar uniform that look more militaristic . With a thick band collar and whomp sleeves , these uniform also comprise weapon belts . These belts carry a case 2 phaser which shows much more prominently than the usual phaser belts worn by Enterprise - D work party members on away missions . The phaser belts are the most obvious and jarring variety in the uniform and help illustrate just how brutal the war with the Klingons has become .
The crew appendage of the Enterprise - C wear the same Starfleet uniforms seen in theStar Trek : The Original Seriesfilms .
The phaser belts worn by every ship’s officer aboard the Enterprise - calciferol reckon very alike to the ones wear thin by the bunch of the ISS Enterprise seen inStar Trek : The Original Seriesseason 2 , episode 10 , " Mirror , Mirror . " It makes sense that the alternative universe endeavour - D in " Yesterday ’s Enterprise " would resemblethe Mirror Universe Enterprise , as both ships were built for struggle during times of war . gratefully , the crewmembers of the substitute Enterprise - 500 are not unnecessarily cruel(or sex - craze ) like the officer in the Mirror Universe .
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5Battle Enterprise Uses Different Style Red Alerts
Red & Yellow Alerts Have Been Replaced By Battle Alerts
Rather than the traditional red and yellow alerts , the Warship Enterprise uses struggle alarm , in either condition yellow or crimson . This Captain Picard and his gang are likely on in high spirits alerting at all times , and the only cause they would declare a ship - wide of the mark alert is if the ship was about to channelise into battle . presently after the Enterprise - D first hails the Enterprise - C , Ensign Wesley Crusher ( Wil Wheaton)informs Picard that Klingon battlecruisers have been spot heading toward them .
Captain Picard then dictate a Battle Alert , Condition Yellow , presumably to alert the crew to prepare for a battle with the Klingons soon . Picard never order a Battle Alert , Condition Red on concealment . He is carry over from the Enterprise - C just as the first attack happens , meaning Commander Riker would have been the one to declare the alert position . It ’s likely the Enterprise - D rest at Battle Alert throughout the rest of the instalment , as they embrace the retreat of the Enterprise - C.
4The Crew Of The Battle Enterprise Eat Rations
The Food Replicators Use Too Much Power
The crew of the Warship Enterprise even eats differently than the original crowd . Although this endeavour is still equipped with food replicators , they are on minimum power so every extra ounce of power can be diverted to the weapons and shields . When Lt . Tasha Yar visits Ten Forward , she asksGuinan ( Whoopi Goldberg)for"a couple of TKLs,“saying that she and Lt . Richard Castillo ( Christopher McDonald ) of the Enterprise - 100 are"in a hurriedness . "
When Castillo interrogate what a TKL is , Yar inform him that they are stock rationsas she explain about the food for thought replicators . Even in a beau monde as advanced as the twenty-fourth one C Federation , wartime still extend every resource flimsy and soldiers still have to sacrifice creature creature comforts . " Yesterday ’s initiative " never discover what the letters TKL really stand for , and it ’s potential they do n’t entail anything at all .
3Battle Enterprise Has Security Officers Everywhere
Security Officers Stand At Nearly Every Door, Battle Ready
Although no one call up particular attending to them throughout " Yesterday ’s Enterprise,“there are security officers in the setting of many scenes plant aboard the Enterprise - D.Equipped with the received weapon system belt with phasers , they stand at nearly every entrance and door on the ship , even in sickbay . There are clearly more officers aboard the Warship Enterprise than the original , as the whole ship feels overcrowded and constantly engaged .
Star Trek : TNG ’s " Yesterday ’s enterprisingness " is an all - time classic enhanced by the absorbing decisions made to bring the time travel story to life .
The scenes in Ten Forward , and even the shots in hallway , are full of mass — officers hurry back and forth to their stations , officer have downtime attempt to forget about the warfare , and everywhere , mute security measure officer standing at attention . Everything sounds louder , too , with more people speak , louder engines , and loud background noise . It ’s invariably jarring to see the initiative not as a place for families and civilizations , but as a fussy battleship prepared for war at all times .
2Picard Records A Military Log Rather Than A Captain’s Log
The Alternate Enterprise-D Is A Warship In Every Way
Picard records a Captain ’s sign in numerous episodes ofStar Trek : The Next Generation , but " Yesterday ’s Enterprise " alters that , too . Right after the endeavor - C come out from the wormhole , Picard records a Military Log and refer to the Enterprise - D as a battleship . He also refers to the date as a fighting day of the month rather than a stardate . In the 2d Military Log , Picard DoS that Tasha Yar has transfer to the enterprisingness - C and report that multiple Klingon battlecruisers are lead toward the two Enterprises .
Changing Captain ’s Logs to Military Logs and stardates to combat dates may seem like small alterations , but they aid the warfare - ravaged alternative universe feel more authentic and lived - in . In a like vein , Picard refers to Riker as Commander rather than Number One , intimate the two are on less friendly terms than they are in the Prime Universe . These little changes truly elevate the episode , take a crap the stake of everything sense higher and show up how much exploit the writers put into establishing this substitute universe .
1Battle Enterprise Has Tasha Yar But No Worf
Denise Crosby Returns As Tasha Yar, Taking Over Worf’s Position
The biggest change in the Warship Enterprise , is , of track , theappearance of Tasha Yarback at tactical and the absence of Lt . Worf ( Michael Dorn ) . Part ofthe approximation for " Yesterday ’s go-ahead " rise as a agency to work Yar backafter her lackluster death inStar Trek : The Next Generationseason 1 . With the Federation at war with the Klingons , Worf would never have lived on Earth or joined Starfleet , leave the perfect hole for Yar to fill up .
Worf only seem in brief at the start and end of " Yesterday ’s Enterprise . " In the episode ’s opening view , Guinan insert the Klingon to Prune juice for the first time . “A warrior ’s drink,“indeed .
Tasha Yar gets to have a more heroic death in " Yesterday ’s Enterprise " ( which is unfortunately undercut by the late visual aspect of her half - Romulan girl , Sela).Yar also gets to star in her own unlucky Romance language , as sparks immediately wing between her and Lt . Castillo . After Guinan tells Yar about her"empty death"in the Prime Universe , Tasha gets to choose to confront her death caput - on . " Yesterday ’s initiative " will always be one ofStar Trek : The Next Generation’smost celebrated episodes . The whole tale is elevate by the amount of care and item put into the alternate universe Warship Enterprise - D.
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