Summary[]
Tom, Paris B'Elanna Torres and Harry Kim are working on equipping a shuttle to reach Warp 10 - infinite speed! Although there is a slight chance that Tom could suffer brain damage, he pilots the shuttle. The experiment succeeds. Tom achieves Warp 10 and crosses the whole universe back and forth in just an instant. Some time after his safe return he doesn't feel well. He is taken to sickbay where the Doctor diagnoses a strange metamorphosis of his body. It appears that the Warp 10 flight accelerated Tom's natural evolution to a new, "more evolved" lifeform. During an unsuccessful attempt to restore Tom's original body using antiprotons, Tom breaks free. He kidnaps Janeway, takes the shuttle and goes to Warp 10 again. Voyager finds the two in a jungle on a nearby planet. They have "evolved" to amphibious creatures resembling newts and have children! The Doctor manages to restore their human nature, while their kids are left behind.
Errors and Explanations[]
Nit Central[]
- Sharon Jordan on Friday, February 26, 1999 - 9:25 am: I'm just wondering if Tuvok and Chakotay, could capture the mutated versions of Janeway and Paris, and cure them, but not their offspring? I mean, if Janeway and Paris could be reversed back, couldn't they turn these children into humans, and see how they turned out. I would think at least Janeway and Paris would be curious, and concerned, of these offspring and wonder how they would be as humans. Am I mad to think about this? Seniram 11:43, January 2, 2018 (UTC) YES! The offspring were very unlikely to have enough fully humans DNA, if any.
- BrianB on Friday, July 09, 1999 - 7:43 am: The warp-10 barrier was broken in TOS'sThe Changeling & By Any Other Name and TNG's Where No One Has Gone Before & The Nth Degree and perhaps more. Having listed those examples, why does Paris evolve when the others haven't? Seniram 11:43, January 2, 2018 (UTC) In the time of TOS, there was a different warp scale, where the Warp 10 Barrier didn’t, as such, even exist!. In Where No One Has Gone Before, the crew could have been protected by the Traveller, and the trip in The Nth Degree was carried out using a different method of Faster Than Light travel.
Ex Astris Scientia[]
- Millions of engineers in the Federation have been working in vain on the development of transwarp technology for at least a century. Yet, a small team of three, on a starship with limited resources that has gone astray in the Delta Quadrant and is frequently being attacked, succeeds in doing exactly this in their spare time. They work out a theory, design and build a prototype in a matter of one month. The engineers in the Federation didn't have access to the new form of dilithium used here.
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