Clues (TNG episode)

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Star Trek: TNG episode
"Clues"
"Picard tries to figure out Data's secret in "Clues".
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Year	2367
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Previous	"Devil's Due"
Next	"First Contact"

Clues is an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The crew awake from unconsciousness after passing through a wormhole. As the only one unaffected, Data states they have been unconscious for approximately 30 seconds. However, several things do not match up to Data's claim. As the crew investigate, it appears that Data has lied to them.

There is a major plot hole in this episode. At the end of the episode, the crew's memory of the last couple days is erased, Data is told not to tell them anything about the incident, the computers are adjusted to remove any information about the time lost and the ship's chronometers are reset to reflect only 30 minutes of lost time. However, when the ship eventually syncs with a federation time beacon they would find that they were off by a couple days and thus the investigation would start all over again.

Preceded by: "Devil's Due"

Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes

Followed by: "First Contact"