by me, Kerry Burgess, 02/02/2025 01:23 AM
Want to sleep. Looking around on the internet for a video to watch
Settled on an episode of "Star Trek: Voyager" that had just started streaming on Pluto
People out there that might think they are in the same boat as I, as the expression goes, might be the only people to find this interesting
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0795288/
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Star Trek: Voyager
S5.E17
Course: Oblivion
Episode aired Mar 3, 1999
A slight respite seems to be in order but some mysterious force is affecting the very fabric of Voyager itself. To solve the mystery this crew must retrace their steps to see what went wrong.
From 3/15/1944 ( ) To 3/3/1999 ( ) is 20076 days
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/20/2020 ( by me, Kerry Burgess, referenced here, below ) is 20076 days
From 3/3/1999 ( ) To 10/20/2020 ( ) is 7902 days
7902 = 3951 + 3951
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 8/27/1976 ( ) is 3951 days
From 5/6/1903 ( Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of USA: Remarks at Grand Canyon, Arizona ) To 4/10/2013 ( premiere USA film "Oblivion" ) is 40152 days
40152 = 20076 + 20076
From 11/2/1965 ( my known birth date in Antlers, Oklahoma, USA, as Kerry Wayne Burgess ) To 10/20/2020 ( ) is 20076 days
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Star Trek: Voyager
"Course: Oblivion"
TV-series season 5 episode 17, 03/03/1999
(from internet transcript)
[Doctor's office]
JANEWAY: Acute cellular degradation?
EMH: Their chromosomes are breaking down at the molecular level.
JANEWAY: Proximity to the warp field?
EMH: I believe so. B'Elanna and my other three patients all work in Engineering. They've been subjected to the heaviest exposure. But preliminary scans suggest the rest of the crew has been affected as well, including the Captain. It's only a matter of time before you begin showing the same symptoms.
JANEWAY: We've shut down the warp drive. The ship is still deteriorating and so are we. Why?
[Mess hall]
TUVOK: Every bulkhead and conduit from deck one to fifteen show signs of molecular de-cohesion.
NEELIX: Even food from the replicator shows signs of decay.
CHAKOTAY: As soon as anything comes into contact with Voyager's atmosphere, it's affected.
NEELIX: That's what we thought at first but take a look at this. These vegetables are completely free of decay.
CHAKOTAY: I thought you said the replicators
NEELIX: They weren't replicated. I harvested them on an away mission last week. The same goes for these particle accelerators, the trilithium ore samples, the keg of Hazari ale. All of them were brought aboard over the last few months, and none of them is disintegrating.
TUVOK: We haven't been able to narrow the time frame precisely, but it appears that anything brought on board over the past thirty to forty weeks is immune.
CHAKOTAY: Something happened to the ship months ago that's causing this decay.
TUVOK: A logical conclusion.
Star Trek: Voyager
"Course: Oblivion"
TV-series season 5 episode 17, 03/03/1999
(from internet transcript)
[Astrometrics lab]
TUVOK: Nine months, twenty eight days. We collected silicate from a comet in the Podaris sector.
CHAKOTAY: According to Neelix's manifest, those samples are stored in the geology lab. They're showing no signs of molecular degradation. Take us further back.
TUVOK: Ten months, eleven days ago. Voyager was forced to land on a class Y planetoid in the Vaskan sector.
CHAKOTAY: The Demon class planet. One of our more interesting missions. We set down looking for deuterium and ended up helping a new form of life to be born.
TUVOK: The planet possessed a biomimetic compound.
CHAKOTAY: The silver blood. It sampled our DNA and created duplicates of the entire crew.
TUVOK: I've often wondered what happened to them. Are they flourishing? Have they continued to evolve?
CHAKOTAY: Do they still resemble us?
[Sickbay]
CHAKOTAY: Is she?
EMH: I'm afraid so.
CHAKOTAY: Scan for traces of deuterium, hydrogen sulphate and dichromates.
EMH: Dichromates?
CHAKOTAY: Just do it.
EMH: What's this about?
TUVOK: We have a disturbing theory.
EMH: I'm detecting all of those compounds.
CHAKOTAY: I want you to inject her with a dichromate catalyst.
EMH: Commander?
CHAKOTAY: We've got to be sure.
(The EMH does so, and Torres dissolves into a silver liquid.)
EMH: I don't understand.
CHAKOTAY: That wasn't B'Elanna. It was a duplicate. A biomimetic copy.
EMH: Copy?
TUVOK: We are all duplicates. None of us are real.
(Later, Janeway is looking at a flask of silver liquid.)
EMH: Behold the primordial soup.
JANEWAY: That's what created us?
CHAKOTAY: Not just us. The entire ship is composed of the same material.
EMH: It's a biomimetic compound that duplicated the crew's molecular structure so precisely that I would never have detected it, if I hadn't known what to look for.
JANEWAY: I was born on Earth in Indiana. I remember growing up there. I remember graduating from the Academy. I have no memory of being a copy.
EMH: Apparently, the original Kathryn Janeway's memories were duplicated as well. Somehow, after the real Voyager left, we began to forget we were duplicates.
CHAKOTAY: Eventually, we assumed their lives and set a course for Earth.
JANEWAY: And now the warp core is breaking down our cellular structure. We didn't think the radiation would hurt us because it isn't harmful to humanoids.
EMH: Each and every one of you will disintegrate just as B'Elanna did. I'm not immune, either. The holo-emitters, like everything else, are copies. It's only a matter of time before my programme begins to degrade.
JANEWAY: What can we do to stop the process?
CHAKOTAY: There is one option. Go back.
JANEWAY: To the Demon class planet?
CHAKOTAY: We were created to survive there.
TUVOK: He's correct. It's reasonable to assume that if we return to our native environment, the degradation will cease.
JANEWAY: Even if we survived the trip, we'd be travelling thousands of light years in the wrong direction.
CHAKOTAY: It may be the only way.
JANEWAY: Duplicate or not, I'm still the same person I was yesterday and so are all of you, and that means we're going to do everything possible to complete our mission, which is to reach Earth. Is that clear?
CHAKOTAY: Yes, ma'am.
JANEWAY: I want you to adjust the environmental controls to simulate a class Y planet. That should slow the rate of degradation.
TUVOK: It's only a matter of time before the environmental controls themselves are affected.
JANEWAY: I realise that. That's why we're going to try and find a safe harbour till we can figure out a way to stop the degradation. Scan for the nearest class Y planet and set a course. In the meantime, I'll explain our situation to the crew.
[Mess hall]
(The mess hall is an emergency ward.
JANEWAY: There's still a great deal we don't know about this phenomenon, and I have every confidence we'll find a way to reverse it.
KIM: So you're saying all our experiences before we were duplicated, none of it's real?
JANEWAY: I don't pretend to understand it myself, Harry, but the way I choose to look at it is this. If everything about us was duplicated, that includes our memory engrams, the emotional centres of our brain. So if you feel something, remember something, believe something, I'm not about to tell you it's not real.
NEELIX: But there is another crew out there, right? The real Voyager.
JANEWAY: I suppose there is, but I don't want that thought to distract any of you from our mission.
PARIS: What mission is that?
JANEWAY: The same as it's always been, Tom. To reach the Alpha Quadrant safe and sound. But to do that we're going to have to beat this problem, and for now that means conserving energy, running the ship in grey mode, cutting crew shifts in half. The less you exert yourselves, the slower the cellular decay. Duplicates or not, you're still my crew. Dismissed.
(Janeway and some crew leave.)
KIM: Tom.
PARIS: There's no one here by that name.
KIM: I just wanted to say, I'm sorry about B'Elanna.
PARIS: Sorry? What for?
KIM: She was your wife.
PARIS: She was a duplicate, just like you are, Harry.
KIM: You heard the Captain. If we're going to survive this, we've got to believe in ourselves.
PARIS: You can drop the good soldier routine. You don't have to do everything the Captain says anymore. Hell, she's not even the Captain.
KIM: She is to me.
PARIS: Okay. Well, let's suppose she does get us back to Earth. What then? You really think your family is going to welcome you with open arms?
KIM: I don't know.
PARIS: For all you know the real Harry Kim is having Sunday dinner with them right now. And you come strolling through the door, they're going to see you for exactly what you are. An impostor.
KIM: So what are we going to do, huh? Wait around till we all disintegrate?
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: October 20, 2020 8:59 PM Astro_Spook @Kerry_W_Burgess
Over the past many years, I've described certain theories of mine.
I dump out these half-baked theories because I'm trying to understand.
Today a new notion forms in my conscious mind.
Thomas Reagan abandoned us.
He abandoned us, her and I, *because* we are replicants.
I've theorized he knew I would become a replicant - am a replicant now - but not about her.
We are not the original people.
He never knew me
The original Kerry Burgess - *me* - was never a personal acquaintance to Thomas Reagan
That version, the original, the human-being cloned from a natural human-being, ceased to exist.
The first replicant emerged and that the first version of Kerry Burgess - *me* - acquainted
The original Kerry Burgess was 100% human, the cloning process was highly-advanced *human* technology
He's gone now.
As one of the replicants who followed, many of whom were biologically studied, living and dead,
As one of the replicants who followed, many of whom were biologically studied, living and dead, and were completely indistinguishable from real humans to the best science.
No amount of study can prove we are not real humans.
But Thomas Reagan knew the truth about us.
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: October 20, 2020 9:05 PM Astro_Spook @Kerry_W_Burgess
What I started off here to impart is a new notion that explains the reason for information I published extensively on these past many years.
All that effort I made in trying to prove that Thomas Reagan is married to a particular famous actress.
THERE IS ABSOLUTELY POSITIVELY COMPLETELY ABSOLUTELY no reason that information should exist in my conscious mind.
Absolutely no reason.
There is absolutely no experience in my past that would serve to explain *how* that information is in my conscious mind.
There's only one reason: because I'm a replicant.
I have capabilities
by me, Kerry Burgess, posted by me: October 20, 2020 9:06 PM Astro_Spook @Kerry_W_Burgess
WHY would anyone - *especially* an Abnormal Psych. Professor - want a family of mimics?
Star Trek: Voyager
"Course: Oblivion"
TV-series season 5 episode 17, 03/03/1999
(from internet transcript)
JANEWAY: We're Starfleet officers, we can't forget that. Break orbit.
PARIS: That planet may be our last chance for survival.
JANEWAY: We'll have to find another option.
PARIS: I'm not sure why we're still taking orders from you.
CHAKOTAY: Lieutenant, follow orders or leave the bridge.
TUVOK: The alien vessel's not pursuing.
JANEWAY: Begin scanning for other class Y planets. Harry, transmit a distress call on all subspace bands. If the real Voyager is out there, I want to find them.
PARIS: In the meantime, which direction do you want me to go?
JANEWAY: Resume course for the Alpha Quadrant, Mister Paris.
[Ready room]
JANEWAY: I know what you're going to say and I don't want to hear it.
CHAKOTAY: Too bad.
JANEWAY: I'm willing to take a little insolence from Tom, but I shouldn't have to remind you that I'm still the Captain.
CHAKOTAY: You're not. You're a biomimetic lifeform created in her image.
JANEWAY: Are you saying you're not taking orders from me anymore?
CHAKOTAY: I'm saying you need to step back and look at our situation objectively.
JANEWAY: You think I should have given the order to fire on that vessel.
CHAKOTAY: No, I agreed with your decision to stand down. But how long can we adhere to Starfleet principles before we start making compromises?
JANEWAY: As long as it takes. Our ship may be deteriorating, but our humanity is intact.
CHAKOTAY: Belief alone won't hold this ship together.
JANEWAY: It's gotten us this far.
CHAKOTAY: Not far enough. Tom and I aren't the only ones who question your decisions. Now that the truth is known, a lot of people think we should turn around and head for the class Y planet. They're starting to remember their existence before Voyager.
JANEWAY: What, what existence? Pools of biomimetic fluid? We didn't even experience sentience until Voyager came along.
CHAKOTAY: What good is sentience if we're not alive to experience it? Kathryn, we've got to go back.
JANEWAY: I promised the crew I'd get them home.
CHAKOTAY: Home isn't Earth.
JANEWAY: Now, there is another matter. I want to download the ship's database and our personal logs into a signal beacon. In the event we don't survive, there should be some record of our accomplishments.
KIM: A time capsule.
JANEWAY: This crew's existence may have been brief, but it's been distinguished. None of you deserves to be forgotten.
SEVEN: I will use unaffected components to construct a beacon.
KIM: Acting Captain's log, stardate 52597.4. Our situation's getting worse every day. More than eighty percent of the ship is uninhabitable. Most of the crew are gone. It seems less and less likely that the few of us left will reach our destination.
KIM: What about the time capsule?
SEVEN: It's ready for launch.
KIM: Do it.
[Engineering]
SEVEN: The launch sequencer has misfired.
KIM: Reset the
[Bridge]
KIM: Initiator. Try it again.
[Engineering]
SEVEN: It won't work. The launch mechanism is demolecularised.
[Bridge]
KIM: Salvage the probe.
[Engineering]
SEVEN: It's too late. It's been destroyed.
[Bridge]
KIM: Personal logs, mission logs, all our history, gone. Now what?
[Engineering]
SEVEN: I'm detecting a vessel twenty two light years away.
[Bridge]
KIM: I see it. I'm trying to hail them. The subspace transceiver's malfunctioning. If they move out of range, they won't see us. We still have one active comm. circuit but we'll have to go to impulse to use it. Seven, drop out of warp.
[Engineering]
SEVEN: The engine controls are fused.
[Bridge]
KIM: Then unfuse them.
SEVEN: Without an isolitic
[Engineering]
SEVEN: Converter, I cannot comply.
[Bridge]
KIM: Dump the core.
[Engineering]
SEVEN: Ensign, dropping out of warp at this velocity could
[Bridge]
SEVEN: Tear the ship apart.
KIM: We're already falling apart. We're not going to make it
[Engineering]
KIM: To the class Y planet in one piece
[Bridge]
KIM: Which means that ship is our only hope. Think about it. What would Captain Janeway have done?
[Engineering]
SEVEN: Computer, prepare to eject the warp core. Authorisation Seven of Nine, omega phi nine three.
COMPUTER: Warp ejection systems enabled.
SEVEN: Eject the core.
(There is a bang, and everyone is thrown around.)
SEVEN: We've lost attitude control and shields. Hull integrity at nineteen percent.
[Bridge]
KIM: Reroute life support! Hell, reroute everything we've got left to the containment fields.
[Engineering]
SEVEN: Hull breaches on
[Bridge]
SEVEN: Decks nine, ten and eleven.
KIM: Seven. Seven! Computer, how long until we're within hailing range of that ship?
COMPUTER: Five minutes and thirty four seconds.
[The real Voyager Bridge]
JANEWAY: Range?
PARIS: Five million kilometres.
JANEWAY: Try hailing again.
TUVOK: No response.
KIM: Captain, I've found the source of the distress call. It's coming from a vessel.
CHAKOTAY: Can you identify it?
KIM: No, the readings are erratic. Looks like they've taken heavy damage.
PARIS: Four hundred thousand kilometres.
JANEWAY: Drop to impulse. Are the rescue teams ready? Bridge to Sickbay, stand by for casualties.
TUVOK: In visual range.
JANEWAY: On screen.
(The viewscreen is filled with a cloud of silver globules.)
JANEWAY: Where's the ship?
KIM: No sign of it.
CHAKOTAY: That debris, that couldn't be all that's left.
TUVOK: I'm detecting residual deuterium, anti-neutrons, traces of dichromates. If it was a vessel, it isn't any more.
JANEWAY: Scan for lifesigns, escape pods.
TUVOK: None.
JANEWAY: Make a note in the ship's record. We received a distress call at oh nine hundred hours. Arrived at the vessel's last known coordinates at twenty one twenty. The ship was destroyed. Cause unknown. No survivors. Mister Paris, resume course.
PARIS: Aye, sir.
(tv-series episode ends)
- by me, Kerry Wayne Burgess, posted by me: 02:44 AM Pacific-timezone USA Sunday 02/02/2025
