Friday May 25 |
Title: Blink of an Eye
Season: 6
Episode: 12
[Astrometrics lab]
SEVEN: The planet has a tachyon core. It's produced a subspace particle field, which runs between the poles. Voyager's arrival disrupted that field.
CHAKOTAY: It looks like the ship's been caught in an eddy of some kind.
JANEWAY: It's worse than that. Voyager seems to have become the planet's third pole.
SEVEN: The imbalance is affecting the outer crust. I've picked up indications of high-frequency seismic activity.
CHAKOTAY: Caused by our presence?
SEVEN: Possibly.
JANEWAY: Does anybody live down there?
SEVEN: The atmosphere is having a scattering effect on our sensors.
CHAKOTAY: Is that vegetation?
SEVEN: According to sensors, yes.
JANEWAY: The tachyon core has created a space-time differential between the planet and the surrounding space. We're watching the seasons change in a matter of seconds.
SEVEN: For each second that passes on Voyager, nearly a day goes by on the planet.
JANEWAY: Scan for inhabitants.
SEVEN: I can't isolate individual lifeforms. It'll take time to correct for the space-time differential
CHAKOTAY: A couple of hundred years, maybe? If our orbit starts to decay, Voyager will begin to feel the effects of the differential and we'll begin aging hundreds of times faster than we would in normal space.
JANEWAY: Unless we want to live our lives in the blink of an eye, I suggest we find a way out of here”
This was definitely the perfect first Voyager episode to watch for Friducation.
While the starship advances towards an unfamiliar, strange planet, the starship suddenly gets trapped while they are in orbit into a mysterious magnetic field. Seven of Nine investigates the situation, and soon discovers that while the starship remains stationary in the magnetic field, at the same time their ship is causing ongoing tremors to the planet below. And more importantly, time is passing very rapidly for the inhabitants on that planet, almost a thousand times faster. The episode beings in an ancient time period, where the inhabitants on the planet are cave men, and as minutes pass on the starship, centuries pass down on the planet below. Therefore down below, technology and societies quickly change and advance at rapid rates. The voyager crew decides that in order to break free of the strange orbit and find out more about the unique planet, they decide to send The Doctor down.
When time moves so fast that it reaches the point where technology is so advanced, the inhabitants on the planet find a way to reach voyager. When the two species do come in contact with the ship, one of them does not survive due to being unable to handle the time transition. When Voyager meets the only survivor, Gotana Retz, they request for his help to get them out of the orbit. Torpedo's repeatedly begin shooting directly from his planet to the ship as they start becoming even more advanced below. However, they must take into account that for the amount of time that Gotana Retz spends on the ship. Years will pass in his time space so he must help Voyager fast before his world becomes so advanced that his own planet becomes too unfamiliar. They demand for Gotana to head back down to his people and tell them who the starship is so that they will stop attacking, but every second counts. Suddenly, the ship breaks free of the orbit. Their plan worked and they escape the magnetic field.