- This episode has odvisous messages about pollution, and feelings about it today. The whole thing with warp drive damging space is a paralle to how cars damage the atmostphere. If warp drive is used to much it will adventarly cause destructive rifts in space the effect the near by planets, being very hazardous to life. However without warp drive star systems would be completed cut off from the rest of the galaxy, just like how fossil fuels damage the atmosphere, and if we keep using them could make Earth uninhabitable. However without the use of gasoline driven vehicles citys would be cut off from the rest of the world.
- This episode shows all side of the pollution debate. LaForge, the warp engine expect of course is very defensive about the whole idea that warp drive could be harmfl represent the people who don't care the gasoline is serouisly damaging our planet, however since LaForge is one of the good guys, in the end he accepts the fact the warp drive is harmful. Serova reprents those who are willing to go to extreme measures to get people to listen to them and to stop polluting.
- I like the messages about pollution, but having warp drive be harmful to space is a big mistake. It's conterproductive to the whole Star Trek saga.
- And the warp drive speed limit that the Federation decides to put up, is also ridiculous. In several seventh season episode, they mention the warp drive speed limit, but after that it is tottally forgotten. The TNG movies, DS9, and VOY act like this episode never happend.
