Blink of an eye.

ST: Voyager isn't a bad show actually. It's just that it is not very good either. Lacking the charm of ToS or the elegance of the modernized TNG it plays second fiddle to these behemoth.

Still, I randomly watched a few episodes of this show and I must say a couple did catch my eye - Blink of the eye was definitely a favorite.

I wonder if it has relationship with the ToS Blink of an eye episode as well. Perhaps they're from the same planet but the prior evolution of their civilization and then fall and voyager triggers a second evolution on that planet.

Blink of an eye still has several issues still -

- timeline - they say they've been there about a 1000 years. Doing the calculation of 1s = 1 day, voyager's 5 days (5*86400s =~ 1183 years of about 365 days each... assuming they have ~365days/year). Given their language, history and tech progressed as ours did, this doesn't gel with what they showed - going from primitive prehistoric humanoids to advanced 22nd century earth equivalent or more tech at the end. That spans like 20,000 years of earth which would be 50 days they were stuck there.

- planet spinning at 60 revs/min. With this revolution rate, how is it that the planet has an atmosphere?

- how does the planet have a sun that is visible as a star? Or any star visible as a point? I can understand voyager is static because it is in geo sync orbit, but rest of their sky should like concentric circles of star light trails. Light a long light exposure photo

- interaction by space dock and breathing in voyager seems odd. Air would be stationary as well for the planet people.

- how could they dock and open the door with voyager?

- how did the astronauts penetrate their force fields but later weapons couldn't?


Still, this was probably the best episode of the show

Overall, I thought voyager was decent. A 7/10 from me.