Talk:The Visitor (episode)

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Contents 1 Episode talk page 1.1 Maintenance links 2 Lightship blueprint appearance? 3 Stardate 4 Removed text

[edit] Lightship blueprint appearance?

The script called for the blueprint of a Bajoran lightship to be seen at the beginning of the episode. Could someone who has the episode on DVD (and possibly good eyesight) check to see if it is in the episode? -- Tough Little Ship 13:42, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

The script specifies that a number of items should be seen on the mantle in Old Jake's home. Specifically:

"We recognize some of them as Benjamin Sisko's personal effects: the clock from his office, a YORUBA mask; a scuffed BASEBALL on a pedestal; a BLUEPRINT of an ancient Bajoran spacecraft with solar sails and, next to it, a framed PHOTO showing a seventeen-year-old Jake and his father".

I've examined all of the scenes in Old Jake's house. The baseball and photo are seen on Jake's writing desk rather than on the mantle, while the Yoruba mask is on the wall above. The clock is nearby on a pedestal, but I can't see the lightship blueprint anywhere. If it was included somewhere on the set I don't think it was caught on camera. Hope that helps! Taduolus 21:54, 4 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Stardate

I have carefully checked, and there is not any stardate in this episode! Therefore, the stardate is unknown.

Furthermore I put sometime after Stardate 49011.4 in place of sometime between Stardate 49011.4 and 49066.5. It’s obvious that the story takes place after 49011.4 (Klingons vs. Federation, Worf…), but nothing establishes it begins before 49066.5. The “original airdate order” of episodes isn’t necessarily the chronological order of stories. -- Yrad 06:00, 2 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Removed text

Removed the following:

• Continuity error: The Bajoran wormhole is supposed to undergo an inversion every fifty years, but because the wormhole itself was only recently "discovered" by Benjamin Sisko, there should be no record of previous inversions (unless this series of future inversions can somehow be predicted based upon available data from the wormhole).

as the writer reasonably explained their own observation, and this is not a nitpicking site.--31dot 00:08, 9 January 2008 (UTC)

it is very possible to view a limited sample of something and project its rate of change over time. actuaries do that for a living. i'm sure mathematics and science in the future can do the same for a wormhole by scanning or some crap.--anonymous 19:32, 15 June 2008 (CST)

I didn't say it wasn't possible. I said that this is not the appropriate place for nitpicks, especially ones which explain themselves away, which the comment was.--31dot 00:42, 16 June 2008 (UTC)