"Blink of an Eye" VOY Line-by-line

[sekundant]

CLERIC: A great mystery to which there is no answer

 

[May 20]

KELEMENE: I believe the sky is full of people just like ourselves.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

CLERIC: What? Oh, nonsense.

 

[Athena28]

KELEMENE: Prove me wrong. I say each star encompasses a city and the Ground Shaker rules one of these cities. A fellow Protector. If I'm correct, then he'll listen to me, one Protector to another. Your pen.
I, Kelemane.

 

[May 20]

CLERIC: Kelemane.

 

[sekundant]

KELEMENE: Son of Kelemane, ruler of the good people of the land below you, demand that you stop what you're

 

[May 20]

CLERIC: Demand?

 

[mattman8907]

KELEMENE: Would hope?

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

CLERIC: Ah, better. Much better.

 

[May 20]

KELEMENE: Would hope that you might consider putting an end to whatever it is you're doing that shakes our ground. If this causes you inconvenience I'm willing to offer a recompense.

 

[Athena28]

CLERIC: A recompense.

 

[May 20]

KELEMENE: I await your reply.
(The cleric hands the letter to Kelemene, who then goes down steps and puts it in a container attached to the small hot air balloon. The balloon is released, and flies gently upwards.)

 

[sekundant]

[Engineering]

(The probe is in orbit.)
TORRES: The next series of scans is coming through. I'm downloading them into the display buffer.

 

[Orac]

Chakotay: No doubt about it. There's a city down there.

 

[May 20]

TORRES: Elevated levels of carbon monoxide, ammonium. That's progress, all right.

 

[sekundant]

CHAKOTAY: They've developed internal combustion technology since the last few scans. Look at those radial lines. It looks like a system of roads.

 

[May 20]

TORRES: Well, one thing hasn't changed. The geological disturbances that Voyager seems to be causing. The probe recorded half a dozen each month. Still no way to tell how severe they are.

 

[mattman8907]

CHAKOTAY: Look at the amount of iron being used in that city. That's ten times what you'd expect to see in a culture at this stage of development.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

TORRES: Do you think they're using it to support their buildings?

 

[May 20]

CHAKOTAY: If you lived on a planet that wouldn't stop shaking, you might be doing the same thing. If they've reached this stage of industrial development, they must be observing us.