Threshold
- Episode aired Jan 29, 1996
- TV-PG
- 46m
IMDb RATING
5.2/10
2.4K
YOUR RATING
Tom's attempt to cross the time warp threshold and make a name for himself results in rapid physical mutation.Tom's attempt to cross the time warp threshold and make a name for himself results in rapid physical mutation.Tom's attempt to cross the time warp threshold and make a name for himself results in rapid physical mutation.
Roxann Dawson
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
Tarik Ergin
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
Louis Ortiz
- Ensign Culhane
- (uncredited)
Susan Rossitto
- Hyper-evolved Reptile
- (uncredited)
Richard Sarstedt
- William McKenzie
- (uncredited)
Cindy Sorenson
- Hyper-evolved Reptile
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaRobert Duncan McNeill helped refine the episode's conclusion. "I helped them rewrite the episode's final scene. I did not feel the original story ended very well. I was pleased because I got to have some input into how to resolve the story."
- GoofsTom and Harry try to break the Warp 10 barrier. In the process they say it's a theoretical impossibility and that no one has gone that fast. In That Which Survives (1969)(#3.17) and Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) the warp 10 barrier is apparently broken.
- Quotes
The Doctor: [examining the unconscious Paris] From what I can tell, he's just... asleep.
The Doctor: Can you wake him?
The Doctor: I don't see why not.
[bends down to Paris]
The Doctor: WAKE UP, LIEUTENANT!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The Toys That Made Us: Star Trek (2018)
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Did they steal the idea for this episode from a 5 year old?
This episode is really bad. Let me try to explain so without giving too much away. First of all, there is not so much suspense and it feels quite boring, but okay; that can happen, and suspense has never been the primary focus of star trek. However, no interesting moral questions are raised, nor are any interesting scientific/futuristic concepts presented. In fact, the concepts presented sound like those of a 5 year old. Let me summarize these concepts (I hope this doesn't count as a spoiler): if you travel past warp 10 (a threshold this episode suddenly came up with; and is not adhered to in some other star trek canon) you are everywhere, but apparently also at different points in time. Slowing down will make you miraculously pop up very close to where you left when you went to warp 10. Rather than traditional evolution which happens over many generations, if you are everywhere and at ever moment in time, your DNA suddenly changes to whatever a human ancestors or successors DNA looked/will look like at some specific time in the past/future. Even my dreams are more logically consistent than this episode. Everything that happened in this episode feels completely random.
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- laurensjean
- Aug 28, 2018
Details
- Runtime46 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3
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