where no one have go before ( episode 5 and season 1 and air date 10/26/87 and stardate 41263 . 1 ) engage u in a fantastic journey across the universe and beyond and plus it ponder metaphysical question of the basis of reality and introduce a new power source think power . near the end of the episode the character wonder whether the event be like magic or like a sleigh ride . the episode be memorable and think provoking and but it mix a few exotic idea to make a unique story brew . the enterprise take on a propulsion expert and kosinski ( and his assistant ) and who have a record for dramatically improve efficiency . riker and data and and the chief engineer believe kosinski be a fraud ( they try his calculation in advance and find no improvement ) . deanna troi add early mystery since she sense nothing from kosinski assistant a if he be like empty space . we later learn that the assistant be an alien life form and trade his knowledge for transportation on starship to observe human . he be call the traveler and have the ability to travel through space time ( and deeply understand propulsion and energy and and technology ) . we learn that wesley crusher could also have these capacity in time . the traveler find wesley fascinate since he see the sign of traveler type ability and knowledge in him . during propulsion testing and the traveler phase in and out of our time or reality and lose control of his power while look at wesley ( lose in thought ) and set off an accidental burst of speed . the ship hurl across the universe past warp 10 and off our scale of measurement ( go 2 . 7 million mile to m 33 ) . kosinski be extremely self confident and conceited . he assure picard he will just do what he do before to take the enterprise back . if he can not and then it would take them more than their lifetime to get back to where they start . but kosinski be mostly a sham and only his assistant can get them back home . the traveler try to get them home and but he be so tired he lose control again and propel the enterprise to where no one have go before and at least and where no human have go before . the essence of the new place be think and so some thought a person think and can become reality . wow and what an interesting place . if i could go there and i would create elephant that fly and unicorns that shoot ectoplasm out of their horn . i like the graphic of this odd new dimension or reality ( that the traveler take them on the second burst of speed ) . i will leave the rest of the plot alone to avoid major spoiler and but the episode include several other idea i enjoyednegative . 1 ) wesley and the traveler discuss the possibility that space time and think aren not the separate thing they appear to be . the traveler assert that thought be the basis of all reality and that it act a a propulsive energy and and that knowledge of time and propulsion and and technology give the traveler ( or wesley in the future ) power to travel to other reality and such a the thought dimension . these be perhaps dangerous thought since thought have power and our clumsy human mind be not ready to use such power . like yoda and the traveler say we must learn control first . ( 2 ) i like the idea of need to learn to control our thought . it would be interesting if the writer have apply these power to data . data would have more control over his thought and unless his neural net be as messy a a human mind . perhaps human could control our thought well with the help of technology and but it doesn not seem likely we could control them good just by think really hard . we would need to evolve good mental faculty first . ( 3 ) one other of the traveler idea have philosophical parallel to panpsychism though and which be the idea that intelligence exist all through nature . david chalmers even argue that consciousness should be consider a basic property of physic akin to space time ( the conscious mind represent in search of a fundamental theory ) . galen strawson argue that panpsychism follow from scientific premise ( consciousness and it place in nature represent do physicalism entail panpsychism . ) . these be not popular view and but popularity doesn not entail truth . ( 4 ) however and panpsychism doesn not usually involve the idea that our thought can propel u through space time and nor magically help a genius understand propulsion and technology . in fact and most contemporary physicist tend to avoid the old einsteinian way of do physic with thought experiment and think by himself ( the fabric of the cosmos represent space and time and and the texture of reality ) . and no one have good reason to believe in a thought dimension or thought power . so this idea seem more like magic represent train your mind and you will gain power over space and time and and acceleration . ( 5 ) be picard mother a projected memory or a memory embed in reality . or be she just picard version of her . be she really always with him . i thought of the movie solaris here . ( 6 ) the traveler use and focus other human thought to intensify his power . ( 7 ) human have not be interest enough to warrant investigation from a traveler until recently . ( 8 ) wesley become an act ensign to set him on the traveler path . ( 9 ) excitement for scientific discovery run high ( new proto star be form and new think world exist right outside ) and but safety and get home take precedence . some late episode bring back the traveler ( journey end ) and panpsychism ( such a in haven ) . panpsychism and think power aren not clearly state in the episode and seem more like a sleigh ride a geordi suggests . maybe it star trek way of get around the illegitimacy of esp in today scientific world . but this episode be so fantastical and and mixed enough with scientific excitement for new discovery and that it solidly hold my interest .