Time Squared

This week the crew of the Enterprise find a shuttlecraft drifting through space, the only problem is this particular shuttle is sitting in the Enterprise's own shuttle bay. Upon bring the drifting shuttle aboard the mystery deepens when Captain Picard is discovered inside, but is it the real Picard, a double or a creature pretending to be the Captain? As the crew tries to sort it all out they find themselves in danger as a whirlpool in space opens up threatening to pull the ship in. Can crew figure out where and when the shuttlecraft and Picard double came from? Will they be able to prevent the Enterprise from being pulled in to the Whirlpool? Will Picard not only have a lengthy conversation with, but also kill himself? Can Riker cook? Do the writers continue in vain to make us like Pulaski? All these questions and more will be answered in this week's episode of Hailing Frequencies Open.