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

[Athena28]

TORRES: The probe's impulse thrusters are starting to fail. At its present altitude, it's been operating for over two hundred years. Its orbit is becoming decayed.

 

[May 20]

CHAKOTAY: Initiate self-destruct.

 

[sekundant]

TORRES: It disintegrated in the upper thermosphere. If they saw anything, it just looked like a shooting star.

 

[May 20]

[Planet surface - observatory]

(Voyager is just about visible through the reflective telescope. Basic electronics and radio technology now.)
ASTRONOMER: Any response to our transmission?

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

TECHNICIAN: Nothing.

 

[May 20]

ASTRONOMER: No visual change either.

 

[Athena28]

TECHNICIAN: Surprised?

 

[May 20]

ASTRONOMER: Send it again.

 

[sekundant]

TECHNICIAN: The entire sequence? How about just the prime numbers?

 

[Orac]

Astronomer: You're tired.

 

[mattman8907]

TECHNICIAN: So are you.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

ASTRONOMER: The prime numbers and the elemental constants, then we'll stop.

 

[May 20]

TECHNICIAN: An acceptable compromise. It's not as if they're going anywhere, if they even exist in the first place.

 

[sekundant]

ASTRONOMER: Do you doubt that?

 

[May 20]

TECHNICIAN: I doubt everything.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

ASTRONOMER: So you weren't one of those children who had the entire series of Sky Ship friends?

 

[May 20]

TECHNICIAN: Actually, I had them all, even the duplicates. You couldn't walk into my home without tripping over a Friend or two.

 

[mattman8907]

ASTRONOMER: Not in our home. My grandfather wouldn't allow it. He told us that the Sky Ship was a palace where an Evil Protector lived. He said that bad children were sent there to be punished. At this point, I'd be happy to see anything, evil or not. Can you boost the signal?

 

[May 20]

TECHNICIAN: We're already at maximum. Maybe if we switched to a different carrier wave to
(Rumble.)
TECHNICIAN: If there is somebody up there, they don't like us very much.

 

[sekundant]

ASTRONOMER: Any beings capable of building that Sky Ship could have destroyed our world long ago. They're not causing the tremors on purpose.