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[VaBeachGuy 12]

Voyager is trapped in high orbit of a strange planet. Appearing as a bright new star in the sky Voyager is unabel to break orbit without ripping the planet apart. The planets population is able to see this strange new star in the sky and names it "Ground Shaker".

 

Time on this strange planet goes by very quickly, minutes on Voyager is decades on the surface, as time goes by Voyager quickly becomes part of the planets mythos.

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Voyager encounters a strange new world that's here today, but tomorrow...?

 

As the U.S.S. Voyager approaches a planet with extremely high revolutions, the ship enters a gravometric gradient, pulling it into orbit. A tachyon core has created a space-time differential, meaning that a second on Voyager is a day on the planet. On the planet, much time has already passed since the initial sighting of the "star" which was believed to be a deity.

 

When Seven of Nine receives a transmission from the planet, the message, now centuries old, tells the crew they have insinuated themselves into the planet's mythology. For centuries, this pre-warp society has endured ground shaking brought about by this "sky ship." Unwilling to throw their civilization's belief system into chaos by making first contact, Captain Janeway sends the Doctor on an undercover mission to gather clues that may help Voyager break orbit. His holomatrix will be unaffected by the differential. As Janeway prepares to beam him back, she loses his signal.

 

Once they recover the Doctor, three years have passed on the planet. He alerts Janeway that Voyager has encouraged much invention through the centuries. The inhabitants are in a space race to make contact. Using the Doctor's data to realign thrusters, the crew attempts to break orbit, but stops when it increases seismic activity. A shuttle from the planet docks on Voyager, and the visitors find the crew in what appears to be a metabolic stasis. Because of the time differential, they are seeing less than a second on board the ship, causing them to think the crew is not moving. When Janeway resumes motion, the visitors have collapsed on the bridge.

 

The surviving pilot explains that he has grown up in awe of the "sky ship," even praying to it as a child. Although any time he spends on Voyager means losing years of his life at home, he agrees to help them interpret the Doctor's data and find a way to break out of orbit. As Seven scans the planet's surface, she detects that they are now experimenting with warp technology. Soon, Voyager is under attack from antimatter torpedoes.

 

Janeway sends the pilot back to his planet with Voyager's specifications, hoping that he can convince his people to find a way to help them break orbit. After several more attacks, but more than a year since the pilot returned to his planet, two ships materialize next to Voyager and use a tractor beam to pull it out of orbit. Using a temporal compensator his planet has devised, the pilot returns to Voyager one more time to say goodbye before the "sky ship" is gone forever.

[~Crims~ 0]

That was a great episode. Very inventive and fast-paced. One of their best.

[Klingonmike 0]

This is one of my favorite episodes from Voyager.It is a great story and I loved watching the people of the planet grow into intelligent beings.

[deagletime 1]

if u think about it... the doctor has had the most outrageous away missions.... being transported twice accross the galaxy..once to fight the romulans, once to meet his dad....then spending few months on the desert planet with tuvok, tom , and some tuvok-groupie..then there was the years he spent on this planet where he raised a son?? lest we mention when his backup file was run 500 years into the future... i mean geez talk about non conventional missions...

[Sarah 0]

I thought that that episode was one of the best on voyager because it showed the growth of a race of people and how fear doesnt always help in making good choices :wub:

[savien 0]

I wish i had seen more Voyager episodes. I have seen all of TNG, most all of DS9... but not a lot of Voyager. Simply put there first 2 seasons sucked IMO. then i picked it up again to see it had gotten good :wub: Cant wait till i can download the episodes heh or buy the seaon DVD's. Sounds like a great episode.

[poguemahone 0]

I've really enjoyed the last two seasons, that one was really good, now if only all seven seasons were that great.

[prometheus 0]

I liked the episode but, always the fussy little bunny, i had a few problems with it in terms of reality. I mean, withinin a few days outside thousands of years passed on the planet. Well how many years old would the planet itself :wub: actually have been? Had Voyager arrived there a week earlier would they have seen dinosaurs on the planet? And isnt it funny that Voyager arrived in the few days that humanoids went through their most significant evolution? Do you know what I mean? K

[VaBeachGuy 12]

I had thought the same things, but who's to say that this was the first humanoid life to evolve there? It could aslo be argued that their culture would have stayed in the "dark age" had it not been for Voyagers arrival. Remember, it was said that Voyager itself was the cause for much of this planets evolution. Almost everything after Voyager's arrival was done in response to or in reactin to Voyager. How many thousands of years might that culture have gone with the advancements they made were it not for the "Sky Friends"?

[vcoolio 0]

I liked the episode but, always the fussy little bunny, i had a few problems with it in terms of reality.  I mean, withinin a few days outside thousands of years passed on the planet. Well how many years old would the planet itself  :wub: actually have been? Had Voyager arrived there a week earlier would they have seen dinosaurs on the planet? And isnt it funny that Voyager arrived in the few days that humanoids went through their most significant evolution? Do you know what I mean? K

The episode had to start somewhere! Loved it.

[~Crims~ 0]

I wish i had seen more Voyager episodes.  I have seen all of TNG, most all of DS9... but not a lot of Voyager.  Simply put there first 2 seasons sucked IMO.  then i picked it up again to see it had gotten good :wub:  Cant wait till i can download the episodes heh or buy the seaon DVD's.  Sounds like a great episode.

I thought the same thing about the first two seasons, but after re-watching some first season episodes they were a lot better than I remember them being.

[Gotabite 0]

Yes, I remember tis episode....Thought it was great!!! :wub:

[VaBeachGuy 12]

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