Non Sequitur in title and phrase

[Kaziarl]

I've been watching Voyager again (currently in season 3). The current episode is Future's End. One of my favorites actually, but that's besides the point.

Tuvok makes a comment in response to Rain Robinson, saying that what she said was a non sequitur. I was curious what it meant, so I looked it up and found it was a logical fallacy.

My question, however, is about a previous Voyager episode that was titled Non Sequitur.

Now, in my own writing I try to come up with titles that fit the story. And in many cases, Star Trek does this fairly well with episodes like the one I'm watching now. All good things... (must come to and end). The Defector, etc. So... how does Non Sequitur fit that episode?

 

[Guy Gardener]

The only way for Harry to get everyone home was to get lost.

 

[Shatnertage]

It's not exactly a logical fallacy--it comes from the Latin for "does not follow."

For example:

"It's pretty windy today. Penguins live in Antarctica" is an example of a non-sequitur.

As far as the episode goes, Guy might have the right idea. Or it's just saying how one change would lead to lots of other changes, like Mean Drunk Tom.

 

[DonIago]

I thought it was a reference to how Harry suddenly finds himself in a world that makes no sense to him at first.

 

[Shatnertage]

That makes sense, too. Waking up 70,000 light years from where you're supposed to be would be a non sequitur.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Especially when everyone says you're crazy to disagree with the entire universes vision.

 

[Kaziarl]

The description I had found was describing something like:

Penguins live on the Ice.
Polar Bears live on the Ice.
So Penguins and Polar Bears live together.

Logically, it does make sense, but it's a fallacy because it doesn't take into account the fact that they live on ice fields at opposite poles.

At least thats how I understood what it was saying. My apologies if that was incorrect.

 

[RyuRoots]

I wouldn't look too much into the episode name. Remember the VOY ep Ex Post Facto? What Ex Post Facto actually is has nothing to do with the episode.

 

[Guy Gardener]

Ex post facto = From after the action.

Legally to do with retroactive law.

The episode was so shitty I don't think that I've seen it twice.

Wasn't it to do with fiddling with the memories of the participants in a crime to alter the verdict after the fact?

 

[Kaziarl]

Ex post facto = From after the action.

Legally to do with retroactive law.

The episode was so shitty I don't think that I've seen it twice.

Wasn't it to do with fiddling with the memories of the participants in a crime to alter the verdict after the fact?

Basically.

The murder victim was killed by a member of his own species. The killer altered the victims memories to implicate Paris so that he could also pass sensitive information hidden within the memory itself to another race.

Personally I liked it. It was kind of like a who-done-it story with an espionage twist. Although granted, it wasn't one of the better episodes.