 The two are brought aboard and while Dr. Crusher ( Gates McFadden ) tends to Dr. Manheim , who is having <unk> , Picard discovers his wife is Jenice , Picard 's former love from before he decided to join Starfleet . Jenice warns that her husband was working privately in his laboratory , but that she didn 't know what he was working on . She also alerts the crew to numerous security protocols that he has installed at the facilities . As the crew prepares to send an away @-@ team to investigate the laboratory , they experience more time distortions , described by Data ( Brent <unk> ) as " Manheim effects " . In one instance Picard , Riker and Data enter a <unk> only to see their past <unk> conversing outside of the lift . The crew find that they cannot complete a transporter beam to the facility due to the <unk> . 
