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Old 04-24-2020, 10:22 PM
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Re: SF Debris review of "Timescape"...


PNQ: In universe, why did Troi collapse a bit when the subspace forcefield was turned on?


I figured it out years ago: Troi is used to having the emotions of the people around her as a sort of white noise, a backdrop that always there. The subspace force field cut her off from all those emotions and it caught her by surprise.


(I know, I know, in "Night Terrors" they said blocking telepathy is impossible. But in that episode they were talking traditional blocking, not using a time differential as in here. These armbands aren't putting a shield over the target, they're pulling the target out of the arrow's line of sight altogether)



Without that explanation Troi just looks weak. Furthermore it looks like a Chekhov's gun that is never fired later.
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