Impossibly Delicious!

[c9]

Timescape, the sixth-season episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation, is so insanely impossible on like 100 different levels, but it's just so fun to watch. It's maddening.

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[sassy-red-head.livejournal.com]

What happens in it? Or do I get stoned for not knowing?

[lifein2x3.livejournal.com]

http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/library/episodes/TNG/detail/68608.html

[c9.livejournal.com]

Time is frozen. Oh, but not everywhere, just on a couple ships. Oh, but not if you're wearing the magic armbands. Oh, but yes if an alien touches you. Oh, but not if you want to move a console, use a computer, or force open a door. And you can control it like a PVR using a simple tricorder. And you can draw smiley faces in the slowly-expanding cloud of lethal radiation and who knows what of a warp core breach. Also, Troi knows all about Romulan engine rooms, Picard thinks smiley faces are funny, Data gets startled by a kettle, and LaForge -- who can see someone's heartbeat -- can't tell that someone has moved.

All explainable within canon and Star Trek physics, actually. That's what makes it fun too.

[lifein2x3.livejournal.com]

I was reading this going, "But, but but..." and then I saw your postscript. All is forgiven.

I thought you were the anti-Trekkie?

[c9.livejournal.com]

Not at all! Though my entertainment allotment is something like 7% TOS, 40% movies, 40% TNG, 6% DS9, 3% VOY, and 4% ENT.

[lifein2x3.livejournal.com]

Ah. Maybe I'm thinking of leapfish, then. I've been going back through TOS and the movies, I dig Kirk and Co.

Although TNG is a close runner up, and DS9 rocks my socks. Haven't seen Voyager or Enterprise yet.

[bartok.livejournal.com]

I'd give a 13% to DS9, as I'd give 0% and 0% to both VOY and ENT. As in I'd be very happy never to watch either ever again....

[sassy-red-head.livejournal.com]

Sounds incredibly confusing...

[nihilicious.livejournal.com]

I don't recommend watching this one stoned.