10 Star Trek Episodes With The Highest Stakes
9. ...All Good Things
Sometimes, Star Trek comes along with a problem that is so enormous one wonders - 'how the hell are they supposed to beat this one?' All Good Things was one such problem. Here was an anomaly, growing larger as it travelled back through time, eventually (or initially) blocking the creation of all life in the galaxy.
For Jean-Luc Picard, this problem for the ages became something very real and threatening. Q drafted him, bouncing the captain through time, from the Enterprise-D's first days to the waning years of the man's life. He may have been Q's pet, but there was a reason that it was Picard who was given this task.
Jean-Luc Picard was the man responsible, however inadvertently, for destroying all life in the galaxy. Thanks, Johnny.
Q, however, understood the potential that, not just Picard, but humanity itself offered. They may have wiped everything out (in the past) but they had the capacity to explore the strangest of new worlds in the future. All they needed was a little nudge.