Over the weekend, Mr. and I...well, I (he fell asleep, he's not a trekky like me
) had a Star Trek marathon saturday night and these are just some of the episodes I really enjoyed. I just like putting together the pieces that make up each episode. I also eventually fell asleep, so I just finished watching the episode I dozed off on. I think I've seen this one a million times. One of my favorites. "Eye of the Needle".
This was the episode where the Voyager crew discovered a small wormhole leading back to their own alpha quadrant of the galaxy. After communicating through it, they were surprised to see that it led not to the alpha quadrant they knew and loved but to the alpha quadrant of a generation earlier. The two ends of the wormhole connected space at two different times. I really like this episode, because I can honestly say that this is another one of those instances in which the Voyager writers got it right. It's just that if wormholes exist, they would be kind of like time machines. Oh, and this reminds me of the wormhole in The Next Generation where a Ferengi ship was lost. I just think that there are so many possibilities when it comes to the universe. Wormholes are like curved space, and curved space itself opens up a lot of possibilities. Oh, and what I really found interesting about our Star Trek marathon
was that I noticed that almost all the episodes involving time travel or temporal distortions also involve some catostrophic form of energy release. I don't know if anyone remembers "The Naked Time". I just love that one, because that's the episode where the Enterprise was thrown back three days following a warp core implosion. I once watched an interview on Stephen Hawking and he was just saying that he's convinced that time travel is impossible, and apparently he's got the math to back it up. I dunno, I guess I would kind of have to agree with him in a sense, it's just that I think that until we have a theory of quantum gravity, we'll never be able to figure out if wormholes really exist, or even if time travel is really possible.