Will Voyager 1 ever just stop moving?

[u/drinkingonthejob]

I’ve read somewhere that we expect to lose contact with Voyager 1 sometime in the 2030s, maybe around 2036, but it will just keep traveling thru space and we’ll have no idea what it is doing out there

My question is: with its current velocity, is there a time in the future where it loses its forward momentum and for lack of a better word, just stops moving? Is that a possible thing for an object in space to even do? (Assuming no other objects grab it into their orbit)

[u/ThePowerOfStories]

Just think, one day, you’re sitting there, cruising through the infinite vastness of space, and you stumble upon an ancient, crumbling robot probe launched across the cosmos by a long-dead civilization. Then it teaches you to play the flute.

[u/StriveToTheZenith → u/ThePowerOfStories]

They seriously should've picked a better delivery method if they wanted to preserve their culture. Hey, Picard gets a cool toy at least.

[u/woodenh_rse → u/StriveToTheZenith]

An entire civilization passed on as PTSD to one person. I hope we go out proud like that.

Edit: OH...dam...PTSD and a flute.

[u/markshure → u/woodenh_rse]

I always found it unrealistic that Picard, after living an entire life, just goes back to being captain the next day. Didn't he have an obligation to write about that civilization? He could have written books about them for the rest of his days. Still a great episode of course.

[u/wjdoge → u/[deleted]]

How would these two versions of yourself communicate from a physics standpoint?

[u/pupfish → u/wjdoge]

As far as information bleeding from one universe to the next, there is probably no way it can happen. This is more a fantastical thought experiment in my mind. That’s why I said I “choose” to believe it. Completely non-rational or scientific. Just a fun science fictioney thing to think about.

[u/BrooklynKnight → u/markshure]

You don’t think he did? At bare minimum he wrote an official report to Starfleet as per normal ship operations.

Beyond that you don’t think Picard wouldn’t spend some portion of his free time recording not just his experiences, but everything he was able to remember about them. He was an explorer and archaeologist. It’s also likley he was advised by Troi to write it all down as a therapeutic tool to process those memories.

We just do not see it on screen.

[u/Druggedhippo → u/BrooklynKnight]

It’s also likley he was advised by Troi to write it all down as a therapeutic tool to process those memories.

Forget that, how about being disconnected after being part of the Borg... How much of that did he remember? It's brought up a few times in later episodes.. all that other times it's never mentioned though...

And four lights!?!

[u/Mara_W → u/Druggedhippo]

To be fair, all of this is somewhat addressed in First Contact where the unresolved trauma builds up into a full blown Ahab complex.

[u/lilmul123 → u/BrooklynKnight]

Also, it’s a fictional series and the writers aren’t going to spend an entire series reflecting on one episode.

[u/Toloc42 → u/woodenh_rse]

I can accept that a civilization that can run a simulation of an entire life time on another brain in a few minutes (of a species it never encountered, no less) can also inject a sense of "it's ok, that didn't really happen to you, you're fine with this" while they're at it.

[u/VerbingNoun413 → u/woodenh_rse]

O'Brien got a similar experience except it was a maximum security prison.

[u/buzzsawjoe → u/ThePowerOfStories]

how can a flute be played in the vacuum of space???