All Good Things
	"Jean-Luc, what's going on ?". The captain believes he has been moving back and forth in time, but Dr Crusher cannot find any evidence of temporal displacement, nor any signs that he has been off the Enterprise.
When Starfleet detects Romulans grouping together in the neutral zone to observe some sort of anomaly, the Enterprise is directed there to investigate. Suddenly in the courtroom from Encounter at Farpoint, the captain is told by Q that it was the Enterprise which caused the anomaly, and the anamoly will annihilate mankind.
In the past, with increasing awareness of his activities in the other time zones, the captain diverts the Enterprise from its mission at Farpoint. To the bewilderment of Tasha and the rest of the crew, he takes them into the dangerous neutral zone.
With Geordi and Data, the future ambassador Picard also becomes convinced of the need to go to the neutral zone. He pleads unsuccessfully with admiral Riker to borrow a starship.
	Jean-Luc is forced to call in a favour from the USS Pasteur: an uncloaked medical ship captained by his divorced wife, Dr Beverly Picard. "But then I never could say no to you".
	Jean-Luc tells the doctor and first officer that he's been in the past and future again. Beverly rescans and finds that Jean-Luc has accumulated over two days of memories within the last few minutes.
As the past Enterprise approaches the anomaly, the captain sees how much larger it appears then. Taking advantage of future technical know-how, they initiate an inverse tachyon probe.
In the future, they arrive at the right place but cannot find the anomaly.
	After a blazing row between Jean-Luc and Beverly because he tries to boss her about on her ship, they agree to stay and search for just a few hours, using an inverse tachyon search beam.
	Just before the Pasteur is destroyed by Klingons, the crew are beamed to safety by Riker & co who turn up unexpectedly in their cloaked Enterprise D.
When Data finds that the anomaly is an eruption of anti-time, Jean-Luc understands Q's paradox. The anti-time anomaly created by the future Enterprise gets bigger in the past to the time when it influenced everything in the Alpha quadrant, even the possibility of creation of life on Earth.
		Beverly follows Jean-Luc into his ready room. "Milk, warm, a dash of nutmeg."
	Beverly orders Jean-Luc to take the prescription and sleep. She is concerned that an illness he has seen in his future is inevitable.
		Jean-Luc: "A lot of things can happen in twenty five years." They kiss, then Beverly leaves the ready room.
Asking for a leap of faith from his crews, the freely time-shifting captain takes all three Enterprises right into the heart of the anomaly to try and collapse it with a static warp shield. The future Enterprise is the last one to survive, but it too becomes history after its success in destroying what its predescessors had been amplifying back in time.
Q congratulates Jean-Luc on his fleeting expanse of thought to dispense with the restrictions of unidirectional time, but warns him that likewise the judgement of the human race is never finished.
		After another busy day saving humanity, Jean-Luc joins the delighted senior officers at last in their regular poker game. "The sky's the limit."
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