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star trek - What does the passage of time "feel like" on Kelemane's planet?


Star Trek: Voyager's "Blink of an Eye" introduces us to Kelemane's planet, a planet where time is greatly accelerated compared to the rest of the galaxy.


Do the inhabitants of this planet "feel" the difference? For example, when pilot Gotana-Retz stepped on Voyager, could he tell, apart from the frozen Voyager personnel, that time there was different?


On Kelemane's planet, individuals live much "faster" than others, but from their perspective, their lives are of normal speed and length, correct? I guess I'm somewhat confused, since there's a part in the episode where Janeway states that if they go down to the planet, their lives will be over in the blink of an eye. This seems similar to the experience of Captain Picard in "The Inner Light." Though he felt like years had passed, he had only been "gone" for a few minutes.



Answer



The very short answer is that time doesn't seem to pass any differently within the temporal field that Voyager inadvertently created. People live normal length lives, get married, have kids and do all the things you'd expect people in a pre-warp civilisation to be doing. Occasionally their planet experiences massive seismic upheavals, but those don't appear to have any discernible effect on the passage of time.



It's only from outside of the temporal field (where time moves at the normally agreed rate) that their world appears to be moving faster, a time-differential of around 1:60000-80000



SEVEN: For each second that passes on Voyager, nearly a day goes by on the planet.



and



JANEWAY: Then you'll be the best looking blob on the planet. I'm keeping you down there for three seconds, Doctor. That will be almost two days in their time frame. Gather whatever data you can. Seismic charts, meteorological records, anything that might give us a clue about how to break orbit.



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