Neelix added some Leola roots and made a stew.
They served as crewmen aboard Voyager. Janeway said so herself at the end of the episode.
I wouldn't have minded seeing them again, though.
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They served as crewmen aboard Voyager. Janeway said so herself at the end of the episode.
I wouldn't have minded seeing them again, though.
STV is one of the more extreme examples, but as the chart on this page shows, the TOS Enterprise could have made Voyager's journey in four weeks at warp 8.7 ("That Which Survives"). Yet at Voyager's warp 9.975, it's a 70 year trip....
How DID the Shatnovels explain it?
Me, I'm going with what our own Nerys Ghemor propounded in her most excellent fanfic.
She suggests that those planets weren't *duplicates* of Earth - they actually WERE Earth. Meaning: They were all parallel universe versions of Earth itself. The Enterprise encountered them because it had temporarily slipped into the universes where they existed, because the fabric of space was not too stable.
Every single time? That seems to be something of a stretch.
Well it only happened, what, three times? And judging how often we saw onscreen examples of space just going wonky like that (i.e. the Defiant), it's not unprecendented.
And in the end, it's much MORE of a stretch to have completely unrelated planets in the same universe be EXACT DUPLICATES of the Earth. That's so much of a coincidence as to be mathematically impossible. I find NG's explanation to be much more realistic.
Yeah.
How DID the Shatnovels explain it?
Me, I'm going with what our own Nerys Ghemor propounded in her most excellent fanfic.
She suggests that those planets weren't *duplicates* of Earth - they actually WERE Earth. Meaning: They were all parallel universe versions of Earth itself. The Enterprise encountered them because it had temporarily slipped into the universes where they existed, because the fabric of space was not too stable.
Every single time? That seems to be something of a stretch.
Shatner's version was: The Preservers did it. All the duplicate Earths (including ours) were built as some sort of galactic-scale experiment.
There are also duplicates of Vulcan and Kronos mentioned, as yet undiscovered by the Federation.
Yeah.How DID the Shatnovels explain it?
Me, I'm going with what our own Nerys Ghemor propounded in her most excellent fanfic.
She suggests that those planets weren't *duplicates* of Earth - they actually WERE Earth. Meaning: They were all parallel universe versions of Earth itself. The Enterprise encountered them because it had temporarily slipped into the universes where they existed, because the fabric of space was not too stable.
Every single time? That seems to be something of a stretch.
Shatner's version was: The Preservers did it. All the duplicate Earths (including ours) were built as some sort of galactic-scale experiment.
There are also duplicates of Vulcan and Kronos mentioned, as yet undiscovered by the Federation.
I'm much more fond of this explanation.
They could also have made the assult on the settlement a lot easy by setting ship's Phaser's to stun.
How was it an "important thing"? The Borg kids had featured in numerous episodes:
but, to casual viewers - or even many regular viewers - of those last four, suddenly showing a Borg baby accompanying them to the planet brings a whole new tangent. The Borg baby was a plot thread the writers planted and never got a chance to go back to. And baby actors are very expensive, especially those requiring prosthetic makeups.
I got that, but it was a great way to introduce some tension among the crew that they could have had with the Maquis from the beginning, but never really utilized to full extent.
What exactly happened to the Caretaker's array? Where did the tractor beam, shown in The Voyager Conspiracy, come from and what did it do?
Not really the Preservers MO.Yeah.How DID the Shatnovels explain it?
Me, I'm going with what our own Nerys Ghemor propounded in her most excellent fanfic.
She suggests that those planets weren't *duplicates* of Earth - they actually WERE Earth. Meaning: They were all parallel universe versions of Earth itself. The Enterprise encountered them because it had temporarily slipped into the universes where they existed, because the fabric of space was not too stable.
Every single time? That seems to be something of a stretch.
Shatner's version was: The Preservers did it. All the duplicate Earths (including ours) were built as some sort of galactic-scale experiment.
There are also duplicates of Vulcan and Kronos mentioned, as yet undiscovered by the Federation.
Well, the funny thing about that episode (which I just watched yesterday) is that Seven never actually proved that it was a tractor beam at all. The sensor data wasn't clear enough to tell what it was. Just because it looks like a tractor beam doesn't mean it is a tractor beam.
IIRC, the Borg Baby was a puppet, so no actor required. And it was already a mistake of them to not even mention the baby in the prior episodes.
And those in charge should have been well aware that their fanbase is the most anal in the galaxy. A child is a big deal! This isn't an inconsistant registry number or a contradictory flashback scene.
Agreed, but what was it? - that is still left unexplained.
Kind of like Chakotay, then.
Too true.
Those tribbles on DS9
The old chestnut: What about the Conspiracy aliens? Could've been a good storyline, or at least a follow up episode.
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Did anyone ever pick up Bailey, or is he still stuck with Balok?
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They ate him.
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They should have noticed the book lying on Balok's coffee table titled "To Serve Man" was, in fact, a cook book.
