"Yesterday's Enterprise" is the 63rd episode of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation. It was the 15th episode of the third season, first airing in syndication the week of February 19, 1990. In the story, the crew of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) must decide whether to send the time-traveling Enterprise-C back through a temporal rift to its certain destruction, to prevent damaging changes to their own timeline. The plot merged two story ideas, one featuring the crew of the time-traveling ship and the other the return of Denise Crosby (pictured), whose character had been killed in the show's first season. Trent Christopher Ganino and Eric A. Stillwell rewrote the merged story to focus on Whoopi Goldberg's character, Guinan. Filming lasted a week. In syndication, "Yesterday's Enterprise" outperformed most of the third season's episodes with a 13.1 Nielsen rating, the third-highest for the series at the time. The episode is cited as a favorite by reviewers, and is widely regarded as one of the best episodes of the series.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

217:

Roman emperor Caracalla was assassinated at a roadside near Harran and succeeded by his Praetorian Guard prefect Macrinus. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caracalla

876:

Forces of the Abbasid Caliphate defeated the army of the Saffarid amir Ya'qub ibn Laith, forcing Ya'qub to halt his advance into what is now Iraq. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Dayr_al-%27Aqul

1904:

Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, was renamed Times Square after The New York Times building. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Times_Square

1961:

A large explosion on board the MV Dara in the Persian Gulf killed 238 people on board. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MV_Dara

2013:

Two Sunni Muslim Islamic extremist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Al-Nusra Front, merged to become the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, also known as ISIS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant

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head-scratching: (idiomatic) Confusing, perplexing, puzzling. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/head-scratching

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If we only have love We can reach those in pain We can heal all our wounds We can use our own names.   --Jacques Brel https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Jacques_Brel