Re: Ferochromon: the Ebisedian conworld

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.

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