Bud Brewster Galactic Fleet Admiral (site admin)
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2024 6:48 pm Post subject: Star Trek Voyager ~ S4 E8 - E9 Year of Hell 1 & 2 |
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This remarkable episode of a great series presents a story involving changes in the time line which will twist your brain into knots . . . and then tickle it until it pees in its pants!
(Metaphorically speaking, of course.)
The story involves a huge alien vessel that is equipped with a device capable of making selective changes in the time line. It's using this mechanism to eliminate the existence one specific alien species who brought about the decline of their own civilization.
Nice trick, eh?
(Well . . . not completely.)
The commander and crew of the ship has spent the last two-hundred years attempting to eliminate an enemy species who brought about the downfall of their own people.
Unfortunately, every time they make a change in the timeline, they cause unwanted changes which either wipe out or benefit other civilizations!
And so, for two hundred years the commanders and his alien crew have rewritten galactic history over and over again — repeatedly attempting to fine-tune the complex calculations required to achieve their desired results!
But their efforts have repeatedly destroyed entire interstellar empires . . . and then deliberately brought them back . . . and then altered other aspects of the timeline with similar cataclysmic results!
As for the starship Voyager and it's crew, they have been repeatedly attacked (and suffered heavy damage from) various alien civilization in this sector — so often in fact that their ship has been reduced to a ragged ruin!
Eventually, Captain Janeway is forced to send most of the crew off in escape pods so they can settle on any inhabitable planets they can find.
Meanwhile, Janeway and a loyal handful of loyal crewmen valiantly struggle to keep the ragged remnants of the poor, heavily damaged Voyager alive so they might someday be able to return and reassemble the ship's crew!
Gentlemen, could any science fiction story possibly present a more intelligent, complex, and heart-rending story?
Dammit, I don't think I could! And I'm pretty good at this kind of stuff. _________________ ____________
Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958) |
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