Cause and Effect

Star Trek: The Next Generation episode creates a lot of cause and effect of one accident that happened again and again. At the end of the episode, we understand that the major explosion that has been happening again and again was caused by the time lapse that occurred from the collision. The Enterprise would repeatedly hit another space station in the same distortion and be thrown back in time to the previous day and do it all over and over again. Eventually, the people aboard the Enterprise began to recognize the same activities over and over again, and began to have déjà vu from the repetition. For example, the captain would read the same chapters again and again, then he would feel as if he already did go through that part. The doctor gave the same diagnosis again and again until she remembered what was wrong with him was not an ear infection. Along with that, there was also the poker game, the voices, and the breaking of the glass. Later, they discover what has been happening to them and they eventually fix the problem.
This piece is science fiction because it takes a usual thing and makes it unusual. Also, the story creates skepticism and follows the usual mystery in many science fiction stories involving time lapses and outer space. I did like watching the movie in class because it made me think and make up my own theories along the way.