The anomaly is created because "Picard" is looking for it and it does not exist when he is looking for it. He creates the anomaly because he is looking very hard for it and it does not exist until after he makes a search for it.
That is the typical justification for any serial killer. The sociopath Microsoft's Bill Gates always blames the victim for making her murder them all.
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All Good Things... (1994)
Q: The trial never ended, Captain. We never reached a verdict. But now we have. You're guilty.
Capt. Picard: Guilty of what?
Q: Of being inferior. Seven years ago, I said we'd be watching you, and we have been - hoping that your ape-like race would demonstrate *some* growth, give *some* indication that your minds had room for expansion. But what have we seen instead? You, worrying about Commander Riker's career. Listening to Counselor Troi's pedantic psychobabble. Indulging Data in his witless exploration of humanity.
Capt. Picard: We've journeyed to countless new worlds. We've contacted new species. We have expanded our understanding of the universe.
Q: In your own paltry, limited way. You have no *idea* how far you still have to go. But instead of using the last seven years to change and to grow, you have squandered them.
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Picard: Now tell me one thing: this anomaly we're looking for - will that destroy humanity?
Q: You're forgetting, Jean-Luc - *you* destroy humanity.
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Capt. Picard: I sincerely hope that this is the last time that I find myself here.
Q: You just don't get it, do you, Jean-Luc? The trial never ends. We wanted to see if you had the ability to expand your mind and your horizons. And for one brief moment, you did.
Capt. Picard: When I realized the paradox.
Q: Exactly. For that one fraction of a second, you were open to options you had never considered. *That* is the exploration that awaits you. Not mapping stars and studying nebulae, but charting the unknown possibilities of existence.
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USA 23 May 1994
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Star Trek: The Next Generation (TV series 1987–1994)
All Good Things... (#7.25)
Patrick Stewart ... Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Past, present and future collide for Captain Picard as he finds himself bouncing around through three different time periods -- the Farpoint mission, the present, and the future in which many changes have affected the Enterprise-D crew. Meanwhile, the mischievous Q is back for his last time trying to help Picard figure out the meaning of a spatial anomaly... or is he only making things worse? You be the judge on this two-hour TV movie which concludes Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Release Date: 23 May 1994 (USA)
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So far, 88 new solar systems, i.e. planetary systems orbiting 'main sequence' stars like our own, have been identified within a distance of 390 light-years from the Sun. These stars are highlighted and named in this animation.
The first definitive extrasolar planet around a main sequence star was announced on 6 October 1995 by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz; the star was 51 Pegasi.
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51 Pegasi is a Sun-like star located 15.6 parsecs (50.9 light-years) from Earth in the constellation Pegasus. It was the first Sun-like star, other than the Sun, found to have a planet orbiting it, a discovery that was announced in 1995.
The exoplanet's discovery was announced on October 6, 1995, by Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz.
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6 June 27, 1994 Pegasus XL STEP-1 Failure
1994 film "Star Trek Generations" DVD video:
Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Kirk. James T. Kirk.
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Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Captain, I'm wondering, do you realize -
Starfleet Captain James T. Kirk: Hold on a minute. Do you smell something burning? Looks like somebody was trying to cook some eggs. Come on in. It's all right. It's my house. At least it used to be. I sold it years ago.
Starfleet Captain Jean-Luc Picard: I'm Captain Jean-Luc Picard of the Starship ...
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"Stargazer" is an L-1011 commercial transport aircraft modified to serve as the launch platform for Orbital’s air-launched Pegasus rocket as well as a platform for airborne research projects.
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All Good Things...
"All Good Things..." is the 177th and 178th episodes, comprising the series finale, of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Overview
Picard finds himself shifting through time: decades in the future and years earlier when he first assumed command of the Enterprise. This is the work of "Q" who is carrying out a judgment from the Continuum upon humanity.
Plot
Q once again appears to Picard and takes him to billions of years in the past on Earth, where the anomaly, growing larger as it moves backwards in time, has taken over the whole of the Alpha Quadrant and has prevented the formation of life on Earth. When Picard returns to the future, he discovers the anomaly has appeared, created as a result of his orders
