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

[May 20]

PARIS: To hell with the Prime Directive. That man deserves an answer.

 

[sekundant]

TORRES: Don't forget the temporal differential. That man has been dead for a long time.

 

[May 20]

EMH: Nearly a century by now.

 

[retroenzo]

PARIS: Okay, so we send a message to his great grandchildren. I'll gladly do the honours.

 

[sekundant]

CHAKOTAY: Ancient mythology. That means we've already insinuated ourselves into their culture. Why not take the next step?

 

[mattman8907]

JANEWAY: First contact with a pre-warp society.

 

[Athena28]

PARIS: We've already made first contact. They know we're up here.

 

[May 20]

JANEWAY: They've known for hundreds of years, which means our presence has been tempered by time. We've gradually become part of their mythos. Meeting us could throw that belief system into chaos.

 

[sekundant]

PARIS: But we're destroying their planet. You heard him.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

CHAKOTAY: A first contact, face to face, might give us information we could use to leave orbit. That would stop the damage. It's worth the risk.

 

[Athena28]

JANEWAY: We don't even know if an away team could survive the transition to their time frame. Doctor, correct me if I'm wrong, but the physiological stress could be fatal.

 

[May 20]

EMH: For one of you, perhaps, but not for me. My holomatrix would be unaffected.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

JANEWAY: You'd be going only as an observer. You're not to make contact.

 

[May 20]

[Bridge]

KIM: I localised the source of the transmission to a subcontinent in the southern hemisphere.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

CHAKOTAY: The Central Protectorate?

 

[Kertrats47]

KIM: How do you know that?

 

[May 20]

CHAKOTAY: I've been looking at the data from Astrometrics. Seven's picked up a few of their local transmissions. I can tell you the names of all twenty six states on the planet.

 

[Kertrats47]

KIM: And all the best places to eat?

 

[May 20]

CHAKOTAY: Just about.

 

[Kertrats47]

KIM: So is this Central Protectorate a good place to send the Doctor?