"Parallels" Star Trek: TNG episode
Episode no.	163
Prod. code	263
Airdate	November 29, 1993
Writer(s)	Brannon Braga
Director	Robert Weimer
Guest star(s)	Wil Wheaton Patti Yasutake

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Synopsis

Worf returns to the Enterprise in a shuttlecraft from a bat'leth tournament, in which he won the first place title of Champion Standing. When he arrives on the Enterprise, he cautiously enters his quarters, apprehensive that his crewmates are probably going to throw him a surprise birthday party, which he hates. Sure enough, when he arrives at his quarters, the crew jumps out in surprise, with much rejoicing and celebration. Then odd things begin to occur that only Worf notices. The cake, which was chocolate, is suddenly yellow. Captain Picard is attending when Riker said he couldn't make it. Worf (worIv in the Klingon language) is a Klingon in the Star Trek fictional universe. ... Klingons (tlhIngan in the Klingon language), are a race of humanoids in the fictional Star Trek universe. ... In the Star Trek fictional universe, the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) is the Galaxy class starship that is the principal setting of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG). ... Jean-Luc Picard is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, the captain of the USS Enterprise-D and the USS Enterprise-E. He was played by British actor Patrick Stewart in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) and resulting films. ... William Thomas Riker is a fictitious character in the Star Trek universe played by Jonathan Frakes, who appears in the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG) and all the movies focusing on the TNG characters. ...

Data's painting that ship's counsellor Deanna Troi had hung on the wall has now changed, and has even moved across the room in an instant. Worf continues to experience all these changes throughout the episode, which escalate in severity, such as instances in which he suddenly finds himself at his Tactical station on the bridge in the middle of a crisis situation when he was originally in his quarters or some other part of the ship. Data, played by Brent Spiner, is a character in the Star Trek fictional universe. ... Commander Deanna Troi is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe, played by the actress Marina Sirtis in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (TNG), Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise (the latter two only in guest appearances), and in several Star Trek films. ...

It turns out that Worf's RNA has a different quantum signature than that of the universe, meaning that he is in the wrong universe. Data explains that when Worf was returning from the bat'leth tournament, he accidentally entered a time-space fissure. The warp engines on his shuttle caused a reaction in the fissure, sending Worf into quantum flux, through the endlessly branching universes that occur when events in one universe follow a different path from those in others. It is discovered, based on the fact that Worf's quantum jumps during the episode always occurred when he was in proximity to Chief Engineer Geordi, that La Forge's VISOR interacted with the quantum flux in Worf's RNA to cause Worf's jumps from quantum universe to quantum universe. Ribonucleic acid (RNA) is a nucleic acid polymer consisting of covalently bound nucleotides. ... Geordi La Forge, a character in the Star Trek fictional universe, holds the rank of Lieutenant Commander, and is the Chief Engineer of the USS Enterprise-D and later the USS Enterprise-E, both under Captain Jean-Luc Picard. ... In the Star Trek fictional universe, a VISOR is a device used to scan the electromagnetic spectrum, create visual input, and transmit it into the brain of the wearer via the optic nerves. ...

Hoping to find where Worf belongs, the crew returns to the fissure, and scans it with a subspace differential pulse. While they search, the Enterprise is attacked by a Bajoran ship, and the fissure begins to destabilize. Realities begin to merge into one another, and hundreds of Enterprises appear. Data realizes the only way to stop this phenomenon is to find Worf's Enterprise and send him back through the fissure to seal it. Worf's true Enterprise is located, and he boards his shuttlecraft, re-modulated to seal the fissure. Worf soon arrives in his own universe, the fissure sealed, with no one other than Worf left with any memory of the events that just transpired.

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External link

• Parallels article at Memory Alpha, a Star Trek wiki