Voyager Reviewed! (by a pedant) S6E12: BLINK OF AN EYE

The last bit of the title seems a bit redundant. What else are you going to blink?

Character art by @anebulouspurpose on instagram.

[Unlimited_Lives]

Today's Thought Experiment: Janeway's decided to leave a sky message in lights before we depart, one that'll be seen by the inhabitants for the next 200 years. She can't be arsed to write it herself though and has delegated the task to you. We've only got enough spare probes to make 5 words so you need to be brief. What'll you write?

[mb]

Not sure why the Doctor makes out that him having a son was “a long story”. He obviously adopted him, which is a pretty short and easy story.

[nikolascagefreeeggs]

Wouldn't have the planet's inhabitants evolved into god-like beings if Voyager had just stuck around for several months? Could they not have whisked Voyager back to the alpha quadrant at that point? Wait, did we just witness the birth of the Q?

[jaymac]

I actually love Voyager its a real nostalgic Startrek for me. I used to watch it after work in the nineties/2000's . This is a great episode 😊
Edit. They really need to upgrade it to HD 😭 You've got it looking really good!

[ironphilly]

“Voyager’s going to space donut possibly to go with Janeway’s copious coffee.”

Sounds about right

[noahlogue]

So this is without a doubt one of the best episodes ever of this show.

[KingOfMadCows]

Voyager couldn't communicate with the planet electronically, but they could have done it physically. They could have sent a probe or beamed down a written message.

[giarc]

When you're done with the whole series, you need to do a supercut of all the spacedog bits. When you first started them, I thought they were annoying and skipped to the next episode. They've since grown on me and become one of my favorite parts of your channel. 😂😂😂😂

[jonyprepperisrael]

still in my top 10 Voyager's episode.
my favorite bit of the episode was when the Astronaut and the doctor were talking together on some random things like how Americans would talk about baseball.
another reason I loved it was because in a sense, its the story of earth minus earthquake.
we looked into the stars and moon until we finally reached it.

and about Jason, according to apocrypha, Jason is a stepchild of the doctor which he adopted, which makes sense

[BintyMcFrazzles]

I love this episode, easily in my top 5 of Voyager. It's a rollicking good sci-fi story, something Star Trek does very well.
One of the great things about this episode is the Dr and how he had a "life" down on the planet with friends and potentially lovers, and how he discusses sports games with the Astronaut. However, the grating is that he still doesn't get a name or quarters, or any further independence as a sentient being.
I love the moment at the end, when the astronaut comes back to say goodbye, and then is an old man and he looks to the sky to watch Voyager disappear.

"Forehead chuff" 🤣

[dm]

Re: the rocket capsule being able to dock with Voyager, i think its reasonable to assume they saw the ports on voyager's hull and built something that looked to be about the right size and shape for it, which voyager's docking port might have compensated for any mismatch (i can easily believe the federation include alot of backups and adaptions into their exploration vehicles incase some aliens we've never meet before needing to dock.

[hlaw]

Literally one of the best episodes of of anything startrek...hello from the U.S. from hours away

[ahwhite]

Never watched this series, stumbled across a clip from this episode, this was the best I could find to provide context. Well done, and now I have to learn more about this Tom Paris guy.

[therwfer]

I always liked this one, but also wonder what are the odds! The odds of Voyager arriving just at the time when The Weird Planet Where Time Moved Very Fast (And So did The People Who Lived There) goes from hunter gatherers to a kinda almost warp capable society. But then again, I guess on a cosmic scale this could be said about every civilisation. I also for some reason really liked details like the bars for people to latch on to during one of the earthquakes. Just thought It's neat the writers would think of something like that.

[Rorikon]

My only really complaint is they raised that whole issue of the Doctor having a family and even a child and then completely dropped it. Would a line or two from the astronaut at the end about Jason really have been too much to ask for? Weird choice. Otherwise a great episode.

[DUCKDUDE]

Really solid voyager episode, and a great breakdown of what made it so appealing and enjoyable for so many.

[sethmaki]

2:05: Anthropology and archaeology go hand-in-hand in Star Trek, in fact, Lt Carolyn Palamas was Kirk's A&A officer on the 1701 with no bloody A, B, C, OR D.

[ptonpc]

Nuke the site from orbit Space Dog, it's the only way to be sure. I just have to say how much I appreciate the effort and attention to detail you put into these videos. The selection of frames to tell the story are *chef's kiss* This is one of my favourite episodes, there is no 'OMG the ship / universe / MacGuffin is XYZ'
The inhabitants of planet speedy are, for the most part, pretty rational people who are making decisions based on the information they have.
A detail I did like is the changes to the building to the left on the planet scenes. It starts off as a wooden watchtower, becomes a telescope and changes through the ages. It's as if the site has never really given up it's primary function through the centuries, that of being a watch tower, even if the thing it is watching is different.

[MadScientist]

Love this episode, but if you think about it the people on the planet would probably only see gamma ray emissions at best due to the extreme redshift, so the sky would look a lot different to them; conversely Voyager's lucky they didn't shoot it with lasers, as a few days of laser emissions compressed into one second and blue-shifted into gamma radiation would've been rather inconvenient. :)

[batgurrl]

Excellent analysis of an interesting episode