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Re: Ferochromon: the Ebisedian conworld

From:Thomas R. Wier <trwier@...>
Date:Wednesday, July 24, 2002, 13:51
Quoting Barry Garcia <barry_garcia@...>:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes: > >I recall a SF novel (and a ST(NG? episode) that dealt with a planet > >orbiting > >its primary so quickly that in earth/ship time of one hour or so, life on > >the planet went from stone to bronze age; after another hour they were > >developing rockets. > > Well, that was a ST Voyager episode as I remember it. It was something > like every minute was a couple of days or maybe years (i forget the > specifics) there. By the end of the episode (a few days) the planet had > reached a level of tech equal to Voyager. Voyager also appeared as a star > in their sky.
Having watched almost no episodes of ST-Voyager, I know there was a a ST-NG episode along the lines that Roger mentioned. IIRC, Picard and the crew bump into a satellite around a dead planet, it does something to Picard to make him go into a coma, and in this coma he experiences a whole life-span in this dying civilization. It ended up being the civilization's attempt for someone to remember them. ===================================================================== Thomas Wier "...koruphàs hetéras hetére:isi prosápto:n / Dept. of Linguistics mú:tho:n mè: teléein atrapòn mían..." University of Chicago "To join together diverse peaks of thought / 1010 E. 59th Street and not complete one road that has no turn" Chicago, IL 60637 Empedocles, _On Nature_, on speculative thinkers