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I've tried to find the trailer for this one, and can't find it ...
Anyone REALLY know what this one is about?? Continuum doesn't offer much of a discription these days ... and usually they offer the trailer.. but no joy this time 'round..
This is all I've found really: "1/19/2000 - Blink of an Eye While Voyager orbits a planet on which time passes so quickly that civilizations rise and fall in a matter of moments, generations of scientists try to figure out what the unusual object in the sky orbiting their world is and try to make contact with it."
Is anyone finding this concept a little beyond science?? Time is constant isn't it??
I mean the life span of a being can be really fast, and as such, their rate of development equally quick, causing fast civilization development, but isn't time a constant - Unless the planet is in some sort of natural warp bubble!!??
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Here, here!! Wait for the bloody thing to come out then I'll be right aboard in nitpicking the hell out of any continuity problems.
However, I also agree that in the Trek universe, as long as an explanation is offered, I don't mind if that explanation bends science a touch. As long as it's a good story and there's a reason for doing so. "Threashhold" does not fit into this catagory!!
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There was a race in TOS whose time ran at a different rate than everyone else's, wasn't there?
And, of course, if the trailer makes it look good, and we know that recent Voyager eps have nothing to do w/ their trailers, doesn't that mean the episode will probably be bad? ;-)
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In fact, "Wink" only featured people who had really fast metabolisms. They didn't live in a "time bubble" or anything - they just lived and moved very fast. Their planet rotated at a normal rate, their water flowed slowly enough...
"Wink" and "Blink" will probably be endlessy cross-compared, but it may turn out they have very little in common beyond the "Ink of an Eye" part.
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Just saw it...I think that this episode rivaled "Genesis" in terms of sheer disregard for science, but it wasn't bad, compared to last week's episode.
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Well, actually, time isn't constant. it all depends on your point of view. If someone was looking at the clock on my wall from the andromeda galaxy, they would see that my clock was running slower than theirs. Actually, i would also see their clock running slow compared to mine....There is a reason why, its just a little too complicated to say it here.
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It was entertaining.. a lot went on.. and they didn't leave you hanging..
For sheer entertainment value.. I thought it was great... And remembering that it is Science Fiction... I almost found the explaination about the planet believable..
Two thumbs up !!
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