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I can't help but think of how the various Star Trek series handled rogue planets... and then later on how IRL science delved into rogue planets as more of a rea

I can't help but think of how the various Star Trek series handled rogue planets... and then later on how IRL science delved into rogue planets as more of a reality than previously realized.

beamatronic 8y ago
Could you provide an example? I don’t recall such an episode.
- hermitdev 8y ago
  I dont recall the season or episode name, but there was an episode in Voyager that involved a rogue planet that was involved in some sort of ancestral hunting ritual.
  - pmontra 8y ago
    I think it's this one from Enterprise https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0572231/plotsummary?ref_=m_tt_ov_pl https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0572231/plotsummary?ref_=m_tt_ov_...
- clouddrover 8y ago
  Memory Alpha has a page on Star Trek episodes which feature rogue planets: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rogue_planet http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rogue_planet
- baxtr 8y ago
  “It is unclear how plant life could survive on Dakala. One scene, however, shows the surface covered in the dim light of a nearby star, perhaps supplying enough energy for some form of photosynthesis. Another theory, from the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 177), is that the plant and animal life was supported by the surface heat from volcanic vents.“ From http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dakala http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dakala
  - flomo 8y ago
    FYI, you're just quoting some technobabble. Back in reality there were popular magazines like Discover that would have flashy covers about things like ROUGE PLANETS! Mostly just sensationalism. Some semi-unemployed Hollywood writer would be paging through these while smoking out and get inspiration for a script. That is Star Trek's scientific insight. And I'm a trek fan. OP probably just doesn't know a lot of this stuff was "ripped from the headlines" (of popular science magazines).
    - baxtr 8y ago
      Yes, you’re right. I think it’s fun though :-) sci-fi is by its nature just technobabble, see the annoying protomolecule stuff in “The Expanse”
  - restalis 8y ago
    I thought that the volcanic activity is a phenomenon happening only in orbiting planets, due to a number of forces that include star's gravitational one.

I can't help but think of how the various Star Trek series handled rogue planets... and then later on how IRL science delved into rogue planets as more of a reality than previously realized.

beamatronic 8y ago

Could you provide an example? I don’t recall such an episode.

hermitdev 8y ago
I dont recall the season or episode name, but there was an episode in Voyager that involved a rogue planet that was involved in some sort of ancestral hunting ritual.
- pmontra 8y ago
  I think it's this one from Enterprise https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0572231/plotsummary?ref_=m_tt_ov_pl https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0572231/plotsummary?ref_=m_tt_ov_...
clouddrover 8y ago
Memory Alpha has a page on Star Trek episodes which feature rogue planets: http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rogue_planet http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Rogue_planet
baxtr 8y ago
“It is unclear how plant life could survive on Dakala. One scene, however, shows the surface covered in the dim light of a nearby star, perhaps supplying enough energy for some form of photosynthesis. Another theory, from the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 177), is that the plant and animal life was supported by the surface heat from volcanic vents.“ From http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dakala http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Dakala
- flomo 8y ago
  FYI, you're just quoting some technobabble. Back in reality there were popular magazines like Discover that would have flashy covers about things like ROUGE PLANETS! Mostly just sensationalism. Some semi-unemployed Hollywood writer would be paging through these while smoking out and get inspiration for a script. That is Star Trek's scientific insight. And I'm a trek fan. OP probably just doesn't know a lot of this stuff was "ripped from the headlines" (of popular science magazines).
  - baxtr 8y ago
    Yes, you’re right. I think it’s fun though :-) sci-fi is by its nature just technobabble, see the annoying protomolecule stuff in “The Expanse”
- restalis 8y ago
  I thought that the volcanic activity is a phenomenon happening only in orbiting planets, due to a number of forces that include star's gravitational one.