Star Trek: The Next Generation - Time Squared

[mammon]

i just saw the episode "Time Squared" from The Next Generations season 2..
for those who don't remember in the episode Picard encounters his double from six hours in the future whose Enterprise had been destroyed..
now i was wondering what the hell was that energy vortex (and will it be seen again?)?
i mean like how come it can send something in the past and shoot and pull objects (the Enterprise were been pulled in) and still be just hallusination or something? (spoilers for those who haven't seen: when the enterprise just went through it the energy vortex disappeared.. by the way how do i put the white thing over that spoiler text so it couldn't be seen?)

[Vapor]

It was a spacial anomaly. There was never any intention of explaining it any further really.

I hate this episode. The main reason being that, when Picard finally realizes that he has to stop the little cycle that is going on, he basically just decides to shoot himself. And he doesn't just stun the other Picard. He MURDERS him.

Now, I know the other Picard eventually disappeared, so therefore, was never really dead, but the fact is that, if Picard had been wrong about the whole thing, he would have just killed someone. He didn't even think about it. And the writers didn't either, I guess. It would have been so easy to just stun him.

Uh... yeah.

[X-Man]

If you follow the logic of Doc Brown, you could argue that reality was destroyed by Picard meeting his future twin anyway, so that episode is better best forgotten.

[yaaayoubetcha]

yet another ep where the ST crew butchers simple time travel....even if it was a small time repeating loop like that....

ugh!