The 37's
- Episode aired Aug 28, 1995
- TV-PG
- 46m
The Voyager crew discovers several people who were abducted during 1937, including Amelia Earhart, cryogenically frozen on a distant planet.The Voyager crew discovers several people who were abducted during 1937, including Amelia Earhart, cryogenically frozen on a distant planet.The Voyager crew discovers several people who were abducted during 1937, including Amelia Earhart, cryogenically frozen on a distant planet.
- Lt. B'Elanna Torres
- (as Roxann Biggs-Dawson)
- Lt. Ayala
- (uncredited)
- Operations Division Officer
- (uncredited)
- Crewman Fitzpatrick
- (uncredited)
Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaThis is the first time in Star Trek that a starship is shown landing (without crashing) on a planet's surface. The reason this was never shown on the original Star Trek (1966) was due to budget restrictions, which necessitated creating the transporter beam as a plot device.
- GoofsParis reports that benzene, acetylene and ethylene would have been present in gasoline. There could be small amounts of benzene in gasoline, but acetylene and ethylene have too high a vapor pressure to be in gasoline.
- Quotes
Fred Noonan: [Noonan has been wounded, and the alcohol in his bloodstream is inhibiting the Doctor's attempts to heal him] There's just one thing I want to say to you first, even though it's four hundred years late. Amelia, I love you.
Amelia Earhart: Fred, you never said anything...
Fred Noonan: You're married, or you were. I guess he's dead now. I just wanted you to know before... before I met my maker.
The Doctor: There! That should do it.
Fred Noonan: Do what?
The Doctor: You're healed.
Fred Noonan: [Noonan looks, and his wound is gone] You mean I'm not gonna die?
The Doctor: Aside from a hangover, you're going to be fine.
Fred Noonan: [panicked] Oh, Amelia... you, uh, you gotta forget what I just told you! Promise me!
Amelia Earhart: [grinning] Fred, I already have.
- ConnectionsReferenced in Star Trek: Enterprise: Terra Nova (2001)
If we forget the more than questionable portrayal of a star ship without wings first gliding through the atmosphere and then landing on a planet, or that they find Amelia Earthart in one of the cryo chambers - I find it doubtful that a civilization will evolve into an advanced society after only 400 years. While the USA thrived in a similar time span, one has to consider that it was a British colony and all sorts of goods were transported over there. Unless this civilization were not able to steal technology from their abductors, they would have basically started from scratch. How to process ore for example if you lack even the simplest tools made out if iron or steel in the first place? How to cut trees to build the first shelters? They also did not bring farm animals or seeds with them (unlike the first settlers in the USA).
And then we never see those three cities they built. First rule of film making: Show, don't tell. The low budget of Star Trek series often destroys the illusion and imagination, the immersion into the story.
Also, how comes not a single crew member wants to stay on this planet and start a new life? There are always people with a different opinion or a different life situation. Just imagine someone that has nothing and no one on earth to return back to. Or an older person that most likely will never return alive if Voyager even manages to travel 70,000 light years (if they stop at every planet or space anomaly this seems rather impossible anyway). Or a young couple that wants to start a family. At least 20-30 people should have shown up in the cargo bay with the wish to stay. But no one showed up. Not even a single Maquis crew member of which many are not comfortable on the Voyager anyhow. And the explorer Amelia Earhart, that was frozen for 400 years, missed all the technological innovations, has always been bold and wanted to embark into the unknown, stays on the planet??? Ridiculous.
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- Runtime46 minutes
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- 1.33 : 1
- 4:3