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Star Trek: The Next Generation · Season 1, Episode 15

William Riker, Jean-Luc Picard and others in “Unfinished Business”

Your shields were failing, sir.

Mm-hmm. I... improvised. With the enemy vessel coming in for the kill, I ordered a sensor bearing, and when it came into the return arc...

You performed what Starfleet textbooks now refer to as the "Picard Maneuver."

Well, I did what any good helmsman would have done. I dropped into high warp, stopped right off the enemy vessel's bow fired everything I had.

And blowing into maximum warp speed, you appeared for an instant to be in two places at once.

And our attacker fired on the wrong one.

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