joking rebuttal to people complaining about the Voyager episode where people turned into lizards after going Warp 10
26 years ago, the Voyager episode "Threshold" aired, in which it was revealed that humans who break the Warp barrier turn into lizards. This episode has been wildly reviled, but those protesting it are missing an important truth.
Every single time a human breaks a speed barrier, they turn into a lizard. It's a biological fact - in attempting to break the sound barrier, we went through sixteen test pilots before Chuck Yeager mysteriously didn't turn into a lizard. There is ample pictographic evidence to show that the first humans who attempted to ride horses turned into lizards. Our simulations show that we can expect the first team of astronauts attempting FTL travel will turn into lizards.
When faced with a velocity that the human brain is unprepared for, a complex psychosomatic process is initiated and the human turns into a lizard in response. After the new "maximum" velocity is normalized and no longer seen to be excessive, humans stop being startled by the travel velocity and cease turning into lizards. It's just basic biology.
joking rebuttal to people complaining about the Voyager episode where people turned into lizards after going Warp 10
@Soreth okay that's scalies, but what about furries
joking rebuttal to people complaining about the Voyager episode where people turned into lizards after going Warp 10
@Soreth oh christ I just read the plot and it's uh
It does seem like the outline for something I'd find online that presumably has very different intentions than star trek
re: joking rebuttal to people complaining about the Voyager episode where people turned into lizards after going Warp 10
@heatherhorns It certainly is A Thing, isn't it? It definitely has a certain vibe going on to it that wouldn't be out of place on pretty much any TF story site.
re: joking rebuttal to people complaining about the Voyager episode where people turned into lizards after going Warp 10
@Soreth you can see how staff can make this stuff, it's like "wow what an incredibly vivid and unusual concept, you're onto something wholly new"
I imagine it's not till the episode airs that it's like "...hm, why did that feel strange"
re: joking rebuttal to people complaining about the Voyager episode where people turned into lizards after going Warp 10
@heatherhorns "Ohhhhhh this better not awaken anything in me"
re: joking rebuttal to people complaining about the Voyager episode where people turned into lizards after going Warp 10
@Soreth i kinda love that vibe where it really feels like someone was venting something they didn't fully understand. Like, I've seen it referred to like someone sneaking in their fetish but the way stuff goes whole hog sometimes carries this sense of "this has been bubbling in my head for years and I'm writing the whole episode/book to get to this exact second"