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Ghetto Tuvok.
Blink Of An Eye
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Ghetto Tuvok.
Indeed - I presume there wasn't any further references to his son?
Blink of an Eye is one of my top 5 favorite episodes of the series beautifully written and Exodus, you're analogy to this episode and Star Trek makes a whole lot of sense. Didn't even consider it until now.
for the same reason we can't feel the Earth moving I'd imagine... frame of reference.
It is wicked fast, but so is a high speed train (which doesn't feel as though it's moving unless you look outside).
Blink of an Eye is one of my favorite episodes. One of my favorite things about it is the musical score.
Damn. Now I have to go learn how to read so I can read that novel and find comparisons.
"Blink" is a fantastic episode, top 2 VOY episodes with ease. It takes some cool ideas postulated in "Wink of an Eye" from TOS and makes it into heavier sci-fi all while fixing the gaffes "Wink" had, chiefly the temporal discontinuity that's genuinely easy to forget about. "Tron Legacy" made the same gaffe but is still a fun movie (yet the original didn't have the problem, but all these movies and shows, regardless of gaffes, have ideas or scenes of much interest regardless. Oops, forgot to tell everyone to get the no-doz beforehand...)
Anyhoo, "Blink" deserved a Hugo and Saturn and a galaxy worth of other awards for a rock solid, engaging, well-acted, and well-written presentation. No, that's not sarcasm. The story is underrated on its own. Being part of a series that is constantly deemed sub-par only hurts it more. Which isn't to say VOY was created during BermanTrek's downward curve and that they didn't explore every idea as fully as they could have but the era is loaded with great episodes. It helps that, as I recall, "Blink" didn't go into overdrive with "Borgobabble" (since "Borg Technobabble" comes across even more tedious than most of these droning paragraphs do...
)Oh, and Olaf Pooley (from the 1970 Doctor Who story "Inferno") is also in it.
Okay, I'll say it, "Living Witness" is the other top-2. There may be others. Is there a timeshare for top-2 lists, swapping them after every re-experience of an episode?
Time for a rewatch. When VOY had good scores instead of the bog-standard TNG frog fart symphony that seasons 5-7 are infamous for, it had really good scores.
It helps that, as I recall, "Blink" didn't go into overdrive with "Borgobabble" (since "Borg Technobabble" comes across even more tedious than most of these droning paragraphs do...
Hmm... now I'm starting to wonder... suppose that a Borg ship crashlanded there and started to assimilate the local population.... would the Borg be able to handle the huge disparity in speed between the global and local collective ?
I would think they'd handle it without any serious issue. They've assimilated so many different species with so many variations in physiology, etc that they've probably adapted something over the centuries that would have helped them acclimate to another peculiarity in the cosmos.
If it was me just out of curiousity I would have tried to stay near the planet for a little longer just to see how far they would advance. What happens to a species as they continue to evolve? Do they develop better and better technology, and to what end, do they destroy themselves?
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