Fluidic Space - wtf?

[F. King Daniel]

"This isn't space, it's matter" said B'Elanna in "Scorpion"

So there a whole dimension/reality/universe out there that's full of goo? How does that happen? Epic replicator malfunction?

Another episode ("Unimatrix Zero"?) mentions "The border of fluidic space" which implies it's actually a reigon of our galaxy, or perhaps it's Janeway's "Nothwest Passage" from "Scorpion" where a load of singularities which act as portals to fluidic space had been opened during the Species 8472/Borg war. But wouldn't that mean the fluid was leaking into our universe, eventually dooming us all?

 

[od0_ital]

... But wouldn't that mean the fluid was leaking into our universe, eventually dooming us all?

I don't think so.

As often as we saw Species 8472 pop out into normal space, there wasn't any fluid poppin' out with 'em. It probably evaporated in subspace or something...

 

[Lilyful]

I actually just figured that fluidic space was just like a nebula that had clumped together to make it dense, and that it is so closely formed together that it couldn't leak into space.

 

[Saquist]

One of the stupider aspect of Voyager series.

 

[Anwar]

It happens the same way giant space amoeba happen.

 

[SPCTRE]

So there a whole dimension/reality/universe out there that's full of goo? How does that happen? Epic replicator malfunction?

Q ejaculate matter.

 

[froot]

So there a whole dimension/reality/universe out there that's full of goo? How does that happen? Epic replicator malfunction?

Q ejaculate matter.

 

[exodus]

"This isn't space, it's matter" said B'Elanna in "Scorpion"

So there a whole dimension/reality/universe out there that's full of goo? How does that happen? Epic replicator malfunction?

Another episode ("Unimatrix Zero"?) mentions "The border of fluidic space" which implies it's actually a reigon of our galaxy, or perhaps it's Janeway's "Nothwest Passage" from "Scorpion" where a load of singularities which act as portals to fluidic space had been opened during the Species 8472/Borg war. But wouldn't that mean the fluid was leaking into our universe, eventually dooming us all?

Much like Storm controlling the weather, explosions of fire in space and space ships banking like there's air currents, I just accept it as one of the many fictional things in sci-fi and don't look for real world reason.

Keeps you from going prematurely grey.

 

[froot]

Sound in space.

Neelix using human forks.

Shape-shifting space jellyfish in love, Warp 10 lizards, skewed starship-to-planet size ratios, FTL travel, the Universal Translator's propensity for ignoring random Klingon words and phrases, sentient distortion rings, sentient space clouds, sentient goop, devolution...

Star Trek, man. Star Trek.

In all seriousness, though, I prefer to think of Fluidic Space as a place filled with boogers and snot. Maybe surface tension keeps it from leaking into the Milky Way when singularities are opened?

 

[DeepSpaceWine]

If it is regionally based and not some alternate dimension entirely, it could be the equivalent of Underspace ("Dragon's Teeth") which has tunnels underlying a large swath of the DQ.

Space is a vacuum, the quantum singularities act as the vacuum-sealed lid on the fluid.

 

[Destructor]

Well, for one thing, space has many, many regions that are filled with nothing but matter. There's a nebula where hydrogen and oxygen are being rammed together in such quantities that it produces all of the water on earth every second. So it's not like you can have a space filled with matter.

Secondly, it was held for a long time that space actually was filled with something, called aether among other things, as an explanation for how vacuums worked. So it's not like there isn't a massive amount of theory presupposing a matter-filled environment and how that would work. As sci-fi ideas go it's hardly preposterous.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I must admit, it was a big and wrong assumption on my part that 8472's whole continuum would be fluidic space, when that could just be what it's like where they're launching their attacks from.

Like humans opening portals from the Delphic Expanse or the compression ring in "Twisted" - our galaxy let alone universe isn't all like that at all, even though someone who followed us back from dimension n might assume so.

So there a whole dimension/reality/universe out there that's full of goo? How does that happen? Epic replicator malfunction?

Q ejaculate matter.

You know what that makes Species 8472, right?

That makes the Voyager/Borg nanoprobe weapons Q spermicide

 

[froot]

I must admit, it was a big and wrong assumption on my part that 8472's whole continuum would be fluidic space, when that could just be what it's like where they're launching their attacks from.

Like humans opening portals from the Delphic Expanse or the compression ring in "Twisted" - our galaxy let alone universe isn't all like that at all, even though someone who followed us back from dimension n might assume so.

Q ejaculate matter.

You know what that makes Species 8472, right?

That makes the Voyager/Borg nanoprobe weapons Q spermicide

How has Guy not commented on this thread yet?

 

[DeepSpaceWine]

Fluidic Space is the universe before the universe gives birth to itself.

 

[SPCTRE]

I must admit, it was a big and wrong assumption on my part that 8472's whole continuum would be fluidic space, when that could just be what it's like where they're launching their attacks from.

Like humans opening portals from the Delphic Expanse or the compression ring in "Twisted" - our galaxy let alone universe isn't all like that at all, even though someone who followed us back from dimension n might assume so.

You know what that makes Species 8472, right?

That makes the Voyager/Borg nanoprobe weapons Q spermicide

How has Guy not commented on this thread yet?

I was wondering the same thing. I would have bet a month's salary that my first post would be enough to summon him!

 

[exodus]

Sound in space.

Neelix using human forks.

Shape-shifting space jellyfish in love, Warp 10 lizards, skewed starship-to-planet size ratios, FTL travel, the Universal Translator's propensity for ignoring random Klingon words and phrases, sentient distortion rings, sentient space clouds, sentient goop, devolution...

Star Trek, man. Star Trek.

In all seriousness, though, I prefer to think of Fluidic Space as a place filled with boogers and snot. Maybe surface tension keeps it from leaking into the Milky Way when singularities are opened?

I got too boogers & snot and lost it!!!