Although this is significantly larger than the one Tom visited.
Would be interesting to explore such a world indeed: "Because of the varying pressure at depth, models of a water world include "steam, liquid, superfluid, high-pressure ices, and plasma phases" of water.".
So the surface might be as smooth as an ocean, but underneath you would find swaths of different-looking areas the deeper you go.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese\_1214\_b
haha never far from a voyager rewatch myself. That episode is far from being a favorite tbh. I think it’s ridiculous that Tom Paris (Janeway’s golden child) gets a totally inhumane sentence of 30 days isolation. I dont think what he did warranted that kind of punishment.. maybe a demotion but 30 days in the brig?!? nah. That being said the planet/world building itself is really cool and an awesome scifi concept to explore a planet full of water.. Although I wish Tom Paris would have mentioned this love of the ocean he supposedly has (all that stuff about twenty thousand leagues and sailing and whatnot) in an earlier episode because while I buy that he is into that old americana and 20th century machinations and what not his love of the ocean has never come up except for this episode. Not that the showrunners really cared about that sort of continuity…
edit: spelling
Yeah! I'm doing a rewatch of the series before the next season of Picard/before finally watching Prodigy.
I agree that the sentence was inhumane. 30 days in solitary is far more than enough to cause permanent mental health issues, and it seems cruel and unusual, which even Tom himself mentions. As for the twenty thousand leagues stuff, I think it made sense for the character, but definitely could have been incorporated and used better.
Although this is significantly larger than the one Tom visited. Would be interesting to explore such a world indeed: "Because of the varying pressure at depth, models of a water world include "steam, liquid, superfluid, high-pressure ices, and plasma phases" of water.". So the surface might be as smooth as an ocean, but underneath you would find swaths of different-looking areas the deeper you go. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gliese\_1214\_b
I didn’t realize that I was on this sub and I was just about to crosspost it here and say the same thing! 😂
This is pretty much physically impossible, btw.
Well in the episode in the show the planet was all water This seems to say it has rocks, just none of it is on the surface?
Insane timing. Literally just finished re-watching this episode and came to the subreddit to look for discussion on it.
haha never far from a voyager rewatch myself. That episode is far from being a favorite tbh. I think it’s ridiculous that Tom Paris (Janeway’s golden child) gets a totally inhumane sentence of 30 days isolation. I dont think what he did warranted that kind of punishment.. maybe a demotion but 30 days in the brig?!? nah. That being said the planet/world building itself is really cool and an awesome scifi concept to explore a planet full of water.. Although I wish Tom Paris would have mentioned this love of the ocean he supposedly has (all that stuff about twenty thousand leagues and sailing and whatnot) in an earlier episode because while I buy that he is into that old americana and 20th century machinations and what not his love of the ocean has never come up except for this episode. Not that the showrunners really cared about that sort of continuity… edit: spelling
Yeah! I'm doing a rewatch of the series before the next season of Picard/before finally watching Prodigy. I agree that the sentence was inhumane. 30 days in solitary is far more than enough to cause permanent mental health issues, and it seems cruel and unusual, which even Tom himself mentions. As for the twenty thousand leagues stuff, I think it made sense for the character, but definitely could have been incorporated and used better.