Was it the end of the universe?

[Butters]

This has proabably been discussed to the far side of hell and back, but, in the episode Where No One Has Gone Before The ship gets flung across the universe and ends up somewhere very odd looking, and the crew has odd visions.

I also know the ep is based on The Wounded Sky, which I would like to read at some point.

What I'd like to discuss is what others take from the episode. Do we know what the writer had in mind with the Time/Space/Thought relationship. Was the edge of the universe to be taken literally?

I'm not sure it was literally, as most theories have the universe as some kind of 4D sphere as it were, but I've never seen any talk of this episode.

Whats the story?

 

[Nerys Ghemor]

Well...I'll be honest, that episode PALES in comparison to The Wounded Sky. You need to read the book to really do the concept justice.

 

[Red Ranger]

Butters,

You have to put The Wounded Sky on your must-read list. Diane Duane is a terrific writer. The concepts she describes in that novel gave me a bit of a headache, but they're incredibly fascinating.

As to whether the region of the universe in Where No One Has Gone Before was the end, as I recall, Picard's vision of his mother poses the question to him: Is it the end or the beginning of the universe? Maybe, paradoxically, it's both.

Red Ranger

 

[Jadzia]

in the episode Where No One Has Gone Before The ship gets flung across the universe and ends up somewhere very odd looking, and the crew has odd visions.

Do we know what the writer had in mind with the Time/Space/Thought relationship. Was the edge of the universe to be taken literally?

I don't think it was meant to be a literal place. I interpreted it simply as surrealism. Showing something obscure suggests that we're a long way from home. And a long way from normality.