History Recap / StarTrekVoyagerS6E12BlinkOfAnEye

The crew comes in contact with a planet rotating 58 times a minute, and where time flows correspondingly faster. The spaceship, in orbit, act as a third pole and any attempts to leave cause massive quakes below, so the inhabitants think they are a deity causing it.

* ArtisticLicensePhysics: For the Weird Planet to be getting enough light and heat to have M-class conditions, it would have to be extremely close to an extremely hot star and/or have very high levels of greenhouse gas in its atmosphere. It would also be very hot for anyone outside the time dilation, since heat radiation would be happening thousands of times faster. None of this is ever portrayed or mentioned.

As time goes on, the civilization that develops on the planet is greatly influenced by the presence of the "Sky Ship". The inhabitants advance to the point they can travel at sublight speed to the ''Voyager'', where the two astronauts -- Gotana-Retz and Terrina -- both try adjust to the new time frame, but only the former survives. He finds out that time moves much more slowly on the ship, and when the ship comes under attack by the suddenly-more-advanced civilization, he acts as an ambassador until he is returned to the planet, where 50 or more of his years have passed.

** {{Lampshaded}} later, after the aliens invent radio. When a scientist (half-jokingly) suggest sending a voice greeting to the Ship in the Sky, another objects that they don't even know if they speak the same language, but goes along with it anyway. As we see the Voyager receives it, the massage is in fact in perfect English.

* SaveYourDeity: Eventually the inhabitants use their technology (now more advanced than ''Voyager'''s) to help them escape.

The crew comes in contact with a planet rotating 58 times a minute, in which they act as a third pole. Any attempts to leave cause massive quakes below, and the inhabitants think they are a deity causing it.

As time goes on, the inhabitants advance to the point they can travel at sublight speed to ''Voyager'', where the two astronauts both try adjust to the new time frame, only one survives. He finds out that time moves much more slowly on the ship, and when the ship comes under attack by the suddenly-more-advanced civilization, he acts as an ambassador until he is returned to the civilization, albeit 50 or more of his years have passed.

* GoingNative: The Doctor expresses patriotic outrage that a neighbouring state attacked his own, the Central Protectorate. He later reveals he has a son down on the planet and talks sports with Gotana-Retz.

* InscrutableAliens: In this episode, they played this role to a species living on a planet with a YearInsideHourOutside effect. From their point of view, ''Voyager'' had been in their sky for centuries, and was a complete mystery to them.

* CallBack: In "Message in a Bottle", the Doctor brags to the new EMH that he added an additional subroutine to his program, allowing him to have sex. Guess it wasn't a brag at all given this episode's events.

* OutgrownSuchSillySuperstitions: Played straight where ''Voyager'' is trapped in orbit over a planet where time moves rapidly, becoming worshiped as a deity by the inhabitants called "the Ground Shaker" after their attempt to leave causes violent earthquakes. As we see time on the planet progress, the people invent telescopes and come to dub ''Voyager'' as "The Sky Ship", which by the time they've entered the Space Age, is no longer believed to be the home of their Gods, but merely an advanced spacecraft that houses alien beings.

* TimeStandsStill: Because of the time differential between ''Voyager'' and the planet's residents, the two astronauts who visit the ship see everyone on ''Voyager'' moving so slow that they are virtually standing still. That is, until the astronauts suddenly find themselves moving at the same speed of time as the ship.