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Airways, August 1999 "Movies for a Snowy Afternoon: When a vicious snowstorm the Midwest last New Year's weekend, it left 50 fully loaded Northwest airplanes stranded for hours, with increasingly frantic passengers and overflowing lavs on the taxiways of Detroit Metropolitan. As might be expected, the fiasco has prompted lawsuits, a congressional investigation, and a wave of finger-pointing. Northwest has conceded it made some serious errors, but the Wall Street Journal's analysis of the plight of one flight, NW1829, reveals another, little noticed boo-boo. To save money, the airline had ceased offering in-flight feature films on most North American flights. Realizing that they were in for an extended delay, a resourceful flight attendant inquired if anyone had videotaped films in their carry-ons. Passengers produced three: a Star Trek television episode, the classic Citizen Kane, and The Princess Bride. Obviously there were not many film buffs aboard, for the black-and-white Thirties-era Kane lasted ten minutes before being hooted off the screens. Princess Bride fared better. The worst choice? The Star Trek episode-its story line hit too close to home, for it involved people being imprisoned, frozen in time by an alien device."
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Yes, but the clown was in their heads. They were connected to a device that kept them frozen in time so they could survive their civilisations' destruction. Eventually, they couldn't leave for the clown had imprisoned them.
In "Timescape" (my original thought when I heard what was said), there was no imprisonment...
------------------ Doctor: "Run along. I'll reattach any severed limbs. Just don't misplace them." (Voyager: "The Killing Game")
[This message has been edited by Elim Garak (edited July 01, 1999).]
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