- Nightmare Fuel:
- Picard (out of curiosity) reaches for the rotten fruit, and his hand gets time-warped. The pain and fingernail effects are horrifying to witness.
- Picard goes from deliriously giggling at the smiley face he drew in the warp core explosion, to screaming and pleading while banging on the glass as a result of "time narcosis" as his timeline starts to sync with that of the Enterprise. Patrick Stewart's performance in this (thankfully brief) scene is downright disturbing.
- Practically as bad is seeing Dr. Crusher, frozen in time, in the middle of being disintegrated by a Romulan disruptor blast to the midsection at point-blank range. Thankfully, it gets averted when time is "rewound" and Troi arms and interposes herself, but still.
- Special Effect Failure:
- Some of the background extras are clearly struggling to stand perfectly still, notably the Romulan near the engineering station on the bridge and the female engineer who appears in close-up. When the episode aired this wouldn't have been that noticeable, but on high-resolution screens it is painfully obvious.
- When Picard goes time-mad, he throws himself against the clear partition around the war core, but the way it bends at the slightest touch reveals that it's just a thin sheet of plastic rather than transparent aluminum or any protective barrier.
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