Timescape (Star Trek: The Next Generation) to their homeworld. At the close, Data is trying to examine human perception of time. Timescape (Star Trek: The Next Generation) "Timescape" is the 151st episode of the American science fiction television series "". The 25th episode of the . Picard, Troi, LaForge and Data must save the "Enterprise", which they find frozen in an explosion of time, taking weapons fire from an also-frozen Romulan Warbird. Captain Picard, Counselor Troi, Chief Engineer La Forge, and Lt. Commander Data are on a runabout, returning to the "Enterprise" from a conference. As they near the ship, they encounter pockets of temporal disruptions
Descent (Star Trek: The Next Generation) of the set of "Star Trek: The Next Generation", which included an opportunity by Hawking to sit in the captain's chair. Freedman told the show's executive producer, Rick Berman, that Hawking would appear on the show if asked. Hawking accepted the ensuing offer, marking the first time a guest star played himself on an episode of any "Star Trek" series. After he was sent the script, he made some modifications to it, including improving a humorous line of dialogue to make it funnier, which Berman called "delightful". Later, when actor Brent Spiner, who appeared in the scene with Hawking, first