diff --git a/packages/next/src/client/components/segment-cache/cache.ts b/packages/next/src/client/components/segment-cache/cache.ts
index e053fd7c09aec..bfee5ce19f756 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/client/components/segment-cache/cache.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/client/components/segment-cache/cache.ts
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ export type PendingSegmentCacheEntry = SegmentCacheEntryShared & {
   status: EntryStatus.Pending
   rsc: null
   loading: null
-  isPartial: true
+  isPartial: boolean
   promise: null | PromiseWithResolvers<FulfilledSegmentCacheEntry | null>
 }
 
@@ -847,6 +847,14 @@ export function upgradeToPendingSegment(
   const pendingEntry: PendingSegmentCacheEntry = emptyEntry as any
   pendingEntry.status = EntryStatus.Pending
   pendingEntry.fetchStrategy = fetchStrategy
+
+  if (fetchStrategy === FetchStrategy.Full) {
+    // We can assume the response will contain the full segment data. Set this
+    // to false so we know it's OK to omit this segment from any navigation
+    // requests that may happen while the data is still pending.
+    pendingEntry.isPartial = false
+  }
+
   // Set the version here, since this is right before the request is initiated.
   // The next time the global cache version is incremented, the entry will
   // effectively be evicted. This happens before initiating the request, rather
diff --git a/packages/next/src/client/components/segment-cache/navigation.ts b/packages/next/src/client/components/segment-cache/navigation.ts
index fd7c2d41245cc..c941d2badcf3f 100644
--- a/packages/next/src/client/components/segment-cache/navigation.ts
+++ b/packages/next/src/client/components/segment-cache/navigation.ts
@@ -444,10 +444,17 @@ function readRenderSnapshotFromCache(
         loading = promiseForFulfilledEntry.then((entry) =>
           entry !== null ? entry.loading : null
         )
-        // Since we don't know yet whether the segment is partial or fully
-        // static, we must assume it's partial; we can't skip the
-        // dynamic request.
-        isPartial = true
+        // Because the request is still pending, we typically don't know yet
+        // whether the response will be partial. We shouldn't skip this segment
+        // during the dynamic navigation request. Otherwise, we might need to
+        // do yet another request to fill in the remaining data, creating
+        // a waterfall.
+        //
+        // The one exception is if this segment is being fetched with via
+        // prefetch={true} (i.e. the "force stale" or "full" strategy). If so,
+        // we can assume the response will be full. This field is set to `false`
+        // for such segments.
+        isPartial = segmentEntry.isPartial
         break
       }
       case EntryStatus.Empty:
@@ -508,7 +515,7 @@ function readHeadSnapshotFromCache(
         rsc = promiseForFulfilledEntry.then((entry) =>
           entry !== null ? entry.rsc : null
         )
-        isPartial = true
+        isPartial = segmentEntry.isPartial
         break
       }
       case EntryStatus.Empty:
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/app/dynamic/page.tsx b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/app/dynamic/page.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..990c798b5213d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/app/dynamic/page.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+import { connection } from 'next/server'
+import { Suspense } from 'react'
+
+async function PageContent() {
+  await connection()
+  return <div id="dynamic-page-content">Dynamic page content</div>
+}
+
+export default async function Page() {
+  return (
+    <Suspense fallback={<div>Loading...</div>}>
+      <PageContent />
+    </Suspense>
+  )
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/app/layout.tsx b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/app/layout.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..dbce4ea8e3aeb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/app/layout.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+export default function RootLayout({
+  children,
+}: {
+  children: React.ReactNode
+}) {
+  return (
+    <html lang="en">
+      <body>{children}</body>
+    </html>
+  )
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/app/page.tsx b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/app/page.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..7fdcafe0eec2d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/app/page.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+import { LinkAccordion } from '../components/link-accordion'
+
+export default function Page() {
+  return (
+    <LinkAccordion href="/dynamic" prefetch={true}>
+      Dynamic page
+    </LinkAccordion>
+  )
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/components/link-accordion.tsx b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/components/link-accordion.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..c6848d479aef8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/components/link-accordion.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,33 @@
+'use client'
+
+import Link, { type LinkProps } from 'next/link'
+import { useState } from 'react'
+
+export function LinkAccordion({
+  href,
+  children,
+  prefetch,
+}: {
+  href: string
+  children: React.ReactNode
+  prefetch?: LinkProps['prefetch']
+}) {
+  const [isVisible, setIsVisible] = useState(false)
+  return (
+    <>
+      <input
+        type="checkbox"
+        checked={isVisible}
+        onChange={() => setIsVisible(!isVisible)}
+        data-link-accordion={href}
+      />
+      {isVisible ? (
+        <Link href={href} prefetch={prefetch}>
+          {children}
+        </Link>
+      ) : (
+        <>{children} (link is hidden)</>
+      )}
+    </>
+  )
+}
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/force-stale.test.ts b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/force-stale.test.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..447516b69f5fd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/force-stale.test.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+import { nextTestSetup } from 'e2e-utils'
+import type * as Playwright from 'playwright'
+import { createRouterAct } from 'router-act'
+
+describe('force stale', () => {
+  const { next, isNextDev } = nextTestSetup({
+    files: __dirname,
+  })
+  if (isNextDev) {
+    test('prefetching is disabled in dev', () => {})
+    return
+  }
+
+  it(
+    'during a navigation, don\'t request segments that have a pending "full" ' +
+      'prefetch already in progress',
+    async () => {
+      let act: ReturnType<typeof createRouterAct>
+      const browser = await next.browser('/', {
+        beforePageLoad(p: Playwright.Page) {
+          act = createRouterAct(p)
+        },
+      })
+
+      await act(
+        async () => {
+          // Reveal a link to a dynamic page. The Link has prefetch={true}, so the
+          // full page data is prefetched, including dynamic content.
+          const toggleLinkVisibility = await browser.elementByCss(
+            'input[data-link-accordion="/dynamic"]'
+          )
+          await act(async () => await toggleLinkVisibility.click(), {
+            includes: 'Dynamic page content',
+            // Block the data from loading into the client so we can test what
+            // happens if we request the same segment again during a navigation.
+            block: true,
+          })
+
+          // Initiate a navigation to the dynamic page. Even though the dynamic
+          // content from the prefetch hasn't loaded yet, the router should not
+          // request the same segment again, because it knows the data it
+          // receives from the prefetch will be complete. This assumption is
+          // _only_ correct for "full" prefetches, because we explicitly instruct
+          // the server not to omit any dynamic or runtime data.
+          const link = await browser.elementByCss('a[href="/dynamic"]')
+          await link.click()
+        },
+        // There should have been no additional requests upon navigation
+        'no-requests'
+      )
+
+      // The data succesfully streams in.
+      const content = await browser.elementById('dynamic-page-content')
+      expect(await content.text()).toBe('Dynamic page content')
+    }
+  )
+})
diff --git a/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/next.config.js b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/next.config.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..e64bae22d6580
--- /dev/null
+++ b/test/e2e/app-dir/segment-cache/force-stale/next.config.js
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+/**
+ * @type {import('next').NextConfig}
+ */
+const nextConfig = {
+  cacheComponents: true,
+}
+
+module.exports = nextConfig
diff --git a/test/lib/router-act.ts b/test/lib/router-act.ts
index cefe17bad31c7..204890c917c90 100644
--- a/test/lib/router-act.ts
+++ b/test/lib/router-act.ts
@@ -77,7 +77,29 @@ export function createRouterAct(
     for (let attempt = 0; attempt < maxRetries; attempt++) {
       try {
         await page.evaluate(
-          () => new Promise<void>((res) => requestIdleCallback(() => res()))
+          () =>
+            new Promise<void>((res) =>
+              requestIdleCallback(() => res(), {
+                // Add a timeout option to prevents the callback from being
+                // backgrounded indefinitely. Not sure why this happens but
+                // without it, the callback will never fire.
+                //
+                // Note that this does not delay the callback from firing.
+                // It should still fire pretty much "immediately". It's just a
+                // safeguard in case the idle callback queue is not fired within
+                // a reasonable amount of time. It really shouldn't
+                // be necessary.
+                //
+                // TODO: I'm getting increasingly frustrated by how flaky
+                // Playwright's APIs are. At this point I'm convinced we should
+                // rewrite the whole router-act module to an equivalent
+                // implementation that runs directly in the browser, by
+                // injecting a script into the page. Since we only use it for
+                // our own contrived e2e test apps, we can just import the
+                // script into each test app that needs it.
+                timeout: 100,
+              })
+            )
         )
         return
       } catch (err) {