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From: kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu
In answer to the question of the subject line, Ubiquitous offered:
> The one where they couldn't escape a black hole, so they torpedoed a
> hole in its event horizon and flew through it.
"Mac Breck " replied:
> What? Somebody actually wrote that? Never saw the ep.
It was awful. Curiously, some of the Maquis-Starfleet tension was okay;
they hadn't yet forgotten about trying to integrate two separate crews
with differing loyalties. (They did forget it a few weeks later.)
ANYWAY, and I've Googled this up to ensure I got it right, they get
stuck inside the event horizon of a black hole and they shoot an opening
in it and the opening isn't very big and Janeway actually says:
"In command school, they taught us to always remember that
maneuvering a starship is a very delicate process, but over the
years I've learned that sometimes you just have to punch your way
through. Mr. Paris, full impulse power."
and after it works (of course), Paris actually says:
"'Sometimes you just have to punch your way through' - I'll have to
remember that one."
Per the credits, this was written by Brannon Braga, but I suspect it was
actually written by a computer running an "Action/Sci-Fi Plot and Cliche
Generator". It reminded me of the bit at the beginning of "Last Action
Hero", where the kid is in the cinema watching the trailer for "Jack
Slater IV", and he's saying all the trailer narration ("This time, it's
personal!") as if he's got it memorized -- because he does, since it
never changes.
Darren Provine ! kilroy@elvis.rowan.edu ! http://www.rowan.edu/~kilroy
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