I just saw this mentioned earlier on a Star Trek website, and I was reading about Voyager in Futures End and how it was a missed opportunity to get home, just by using the slingshot effect. I remember them doing this in TNG back when I was a kid. I have recently seen the whole series, but do not remember at all seeing this episode. Can anyone tell me which one it was? Maybe I fell asleep during this one.
2007-09-09 13:17:11 · 5 answers · asked by Adam P 2 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Television ➔ Drama
i don't remember this being done on the next generation.....you might be thinking of star trek movie IV the voyage home....they did a sling shot around the sun to bring back a humpback whale to answer a probe. There were a few instances where there they did do some time traveling....one where they were investigated data's "death" and ended up on the Mississippi river with mark twain...and there were a few episodes where Q messed up time most notably the last one.
2007-09-09 13:26:44 · answer #1 · answered by t 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A side effect of Warp travel which has been shown throughout Star Trek is the "Slingshot effect." First discovered by accident in "Tomorrow Is Yesterday" (1967), one of the earlier episodes of the original Star Trek series, it is a method of using a warp drive to travel through time. Whereas the actual procedure is intentionally obscure, it involved travelling at high warp speed toward a star (established in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) to be somewhere over Warp 9.8), on a precisely calculated "slingshot" path, and if successful it can allow for travel to the future or past. The same technique was used later in the episode "Assignment: Earth" (1968) intentionally for historic research (where it is given the technical name "light speed breakaway factor"), and again in Star Trek IV (where it was called "time warp"). The technique was mentioned as a viable method of time travel in the Next Generation episode "Time Squared" (1989).
2007-09-09 13:28:41 · answer #2 · answered by Robert S 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
alright the "slingshot effect" is a type of manouever used to warp through time...hoping for backwards. this happens in the star trek movie with the whales...the voyage home.
now here's the confusion:
the "slingshot" thing that happens in next gen isnt that time warp manouver. its just an actual slinghsot where data & picard have very little power left on enterprise when she's stuck in an ancient battle field. they "swing the ship" around a large asteriod using its gravatational force to throw enterprise back into space & out of the battle field.
this is "booby trap"...here's a link to it:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0708682/
the confusion here is, love the guy but sorry to say, brent spiner's fault with this line:
"you have used the asteroid belts gravatational pull """as a slingshot""". Excellent!" marvels Data as Picard takes the helm to steer the ship free of the trap.
in this case, the "slingshot" is just that. enterprise is the trapped stone so to speak & is set free. but it isnt the "warp manouver" used in time warping that is reffered to as "the slingshot effect"
you can find all star trek episodes on IMDb in a list. here's the one for the entire next gen.:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0092455/episodes
2007-09-09 20:16:18 · answer #3 · answered by Candystar 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
by way of long-term of the practice, i come across it difficult to go with a pair of favourites for the sequence as an entire. although, I do have my alternatives for specific seasons, so pay attention is going: Season a million: "The Arsenal of Freedom" (maximum suitable ensemble episode of the season) Season 2: "Contagion" (between the better secret episodes of the sequence) Season 3: "Tin guy" (suitable archives piece as he meets his Betazoid counterpart) Season 4: "The Nth factor" (impressive use of hyperintellegence) Season 5: "reason and result" (basically what proportion cases can the organization blow up?) Season 6: (tie) "Relics" and "Tapestry" (the Dyson sphere would have been an episode of its own, and Picard gets to verify how he would have come out) Season 7: "The Pegasus" (maximum suitable plot of the season) those are my own favourites. there are in all risk better episodes artisticly and technically, yet there's a private resonance that I even have with maximum of those that types my record.
2016-10-19 23:34:44 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I use to watch that with my highschool heart. I will ask him he may know he was a star stek freak.
2007-09-09 13:22:37 · answer #5 · answered by Bettina C 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋