"Yesterday's Enterprise"
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"Yesterday's Enterprise" is a critically acclaimed episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which a time rift brings a past Enterprise into a darker alternate timeline, forcing the crew to make a profound sacrifice to restore history.
All labels observed (3)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| "Yesterday's Enterprise" canonical | 2 |
| Yesterday's Enterprise | 2 |
| Yesterday’s Enterprise | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T2834847 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: "Yesterday's Enterprise" Context triple: [Guinan, appearsInEpisode, "Yesterday's Enterprise"]
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Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe that serves as a prequel, following the early adventures of humanity’s first warp 5 starship and its crew.
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B.
Tin Star
Tin Star is a British-Canadian crime drama television series that follows a former London detective who becomes a small-town police chief in the Canadian Rockies, where his dark past and the town’s corruption collide.
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C.
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise that follows the starship Voyager and its crew as they struggle to return home after being stranded in the distant Delta Quadrant.
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D.
The Starlost
The Starlost is a 1973 Canadian science fiction television series set aboard a vast, drifting generational spaceship whose isolated biosphere communities are unaware they are on a ship.
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E.
"The Changeling" (TOS)
"The Changeling" (TOS) is a first-season Star Trek: The Original Series episode in which the Enterprise encounters Nomad, a damaged Earth probe that has merged with an alien device and now threatens to destroy all imperfect life.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: "Yesterday's Enterprise" Target entity description: "Yesterday's Enterprise" is a critically acclaimed episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which a time rift brings a past Enterprise into a darker alternate timeline, forcing the crew to make a profound sacrifice to restore history.
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A.
Star Trek: Enterprise
Star Trek: Enterprise is a science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe that serves as a prequel, following the early adventures of humanity’s first warp 5 starship and its crew.
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B.
Tin Star
Tin Star is a British-Canadian crime drama television series that follows a former London detective who becomes a small-town police chief in the Canadian Rockies, where his dark past and the town’s corruption collide.
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C.
Star Trek: Voyager
Star Trek: Voyager is a science fiction television series in the Star Trek franchise that follows the starship Voyager and its crew as they struggle to return home after being stranded in the distant Delta Quadrant.
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D.
The Starlost
The Starlost is a 1973 Canadian science fiction television series set aboard a vast, drifting generational spaceship whose isolated biosphere communities are unaware they are on a ship.
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E.
"The Changeling" (TOS)
"The Changeling" (TOS) is a first-season Star Trek: The Original Series episode in which the Enterprise encounters Nomad, a damaged Earth probe that has merged with an alien device and now threatens to destroy all imperfect life.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (45)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Star Trek: The Next Generation episode
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television episode ⓘ |
| conflict | Federation–Klingon war in alternate timeline ⓘ |
| continuityImpact |
introduces alternate timeline in which Tasha Yar survives
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leads to later storyline involving Sela ⓘ |
| countryOfOrigin |
United States
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linked to:
United States of America
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| criticalReception | critically acclaimed ⓘ |
| episodeNumberInSeason | 15 ⓘ |
| featuresCharacter |
Beverly Crusher
ⓘ
Data ⓘ Guinan ⓘ Jean-Luc Picard ⓘ Richard Castillo ⓘ Tasha Yar ⓘ William T. Riker ⓘ
linked to:
Will Riker
Worf ⓘ |
| featuresOrganization |
Klingon Empire
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Romulan Star Empire ⓘ Starfleet ⓘ United Federation of Planets ⓘ |
| featuresSpecies |
Klingon
ⓘ
linked to:
Klingons
Romulan ⓘ |
| featuresStarship |
USS Enterprise-C
ⓘ
linked to:
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C)
USS Enterprise-D ⓘ |
| franchisePlacement | Prime Timeline is restored by the end of the episode ⓘ |
| genre |
science fiction
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space opera ⓘ time travel fiction ⓘ |
| narrativeDevice | time travel via temporal rift ⓘ |
| notableFor |
darker alternate-timeline depiction of the Enterprise-D
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return of Tasha Yar after her death in an earlier episode ⓘ |
| originalLanguage | English ⓘ |
| originalNetwork | Syndication ⓘ |
| partOfFranchise | Star Trek ⓘ |
| plotElement |
alternate timeline
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sacrifice to restore original history ⓘ temporal rift ⓘ |
| season | 3 ⓘ |
| series | Star Trek: The Next Generation ⓘ |
| setting |
24th century
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alternate-timeline USS Enterprise-D ⓘ
linked to:
USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)
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| theme |
duty and sacrifice
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restoration of the timeline ⓘ the cost of war ⓘ |
| title |
Yesterday's Enterprise
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linked to:
"Yesterday's Enterprise"
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How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
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Input
Subject: "Yesterday's Enterprise" Description of subject: "Yesterday's Enterprise" is a critically acclaimed episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation in which a time rift brings a past Enterprise into a darker alternate timeline, forcing the crew to make a profound sacrifice to restore history.
Referenced by (5)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
"Yesterday's Enterprise"
linked to: "Yesterday's Enterprise"
linked to: "Yesterday's Enterprise"
subject linked to:
Enterprise
linked to: "Yesterday's Enterprise"