Window of Opportunity

[Sayuri-Ryuu]

Yikes, yeah. You could kill yourself and then come back to life.....and finally settle the whole 'does god exist' question.  

[kittyfox_kumiko]

Not necessarily. You could just black out and then start it all over again with no memory of anything in between.  

[Sayuri-Ryuu]

Thats the other option, yeah. Happened in Star Trek, as far as I remember. Sort of, anyway.  

[kittyfox_kumiko]

When was this?

They had a scene in Farscape where Crichton (Ben Browder) and Aeryn (Claudia Black) were trapped in a ship and had to vent the air temporarily. Crichton had to take this injection that essentially killed him temporarily, and they got into a mini discussion about the afterlife. After he came to, Aeryn asked if he'd seen the "white light" he mentioned before. He said no, only blackness, and that maybe it was because he wasn't supposed to die then.  

[Sayuri-Ryuu]

In voyager, Neelix dies (yay!) and comes back to life (awww), and then has a moral crisis because he saw no afterlife.  

[kittyfox_kumiko]

Well that explains it. I never consistently watched that show.  

[Sayuri-Ryuu]

It got really, really, bad at the end.  

[kittyfox_kumiko]

I saw the last episode. It was bland.  

[Sayuri-Ryuu]

It was horrible. No Star Trek ever ended well.  

[kittyfox_kumiko]

TNG ended well, I thought. Nice three-parter.  

[Sayuri-Ryuu]

What, the hopping around three timelines thing? Nah, didn't like that.  

[kittyfox_kumiko]

What about the full-circle-ness? I love that!  

[Sayuri-Ryuu]

Yeah, I suppose, but it was awash in a sea of other bad things, so....  

[kittyfox_kumiko]

I liked the last scene, and apparently so did the actors in it.  

[Sayuri-Ryuu]

To be perfectly honest, I can't remember the very last one. I never watched it very often.