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« Ostatnia wiadomość wysłana przez Q dnia Listopada 05, 2025, 03:40:50 pm »Tu się jakoś przypomina "Star Trek" przyszywany, "Babylon 5" zwany, a konkretniej jego odcinek "Mind War", czy raczej ostatnia scena tegoż:
Catherine Sakai: Ambassador. While I was out there, I saw something. What was it?
G'Kar: What is this?
Catherine Sakai: An ant.
G'Kar: Ant?
Catherine Sakai: So much gets shipped up from Earth on commercial transport, it's hard to keep them out.
G'Kar: Yeah. I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again and it asks another ant: "What was that?", how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than eighter of our races. They are vast, timeless, if they're aware of us at all it is as little more than ants. We have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried. And we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on.
Catherine Sakai: That's it? That's all you know?
G'Kar: Yes. They are a mystery, and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe – that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Ms. Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957. They must walk there... alone.
Catherine Sakai: Ambassador. While I was out there, I saw something. What was it?
G'Kar: What is this?
Catherine Sakai: An ant.
G'Kar: Ant?
Catherine Sakai: So much gets shipped up from Earth on commercial transport, it's hard to keep them out.
G'Kar: Yeah. I have just picked it up on the tip of my glove. If I put it down again and it asks another ant: "What was that?", how would it explain? There are things in the universe billions of years older than eighter of our races. They are vast, timeless, if they're aware of us at all it is as little more than ants. We have as much chance of communicating with them as an ant has with us. We know, we've tried. And we've learned that we can either stay out from underfoot or be stepped on.
Catherine Sakai: That's it? That's all you know?
G'Kar: Yes. They are a mystery, and I am both terrified and reassured to know that there are still wonders in the universe – that we have not yet explained everything. Whatever they are, Ms. Sakai, they walk near Sigma 957. They must walk there... alone.
dopiero rok później, "Ostatnie pytanie" w '74, lata po tym, jak zostało streszczone w "Fif-ie". Jedynym* naturalnym układem odniesienia i współzawodnikiem był zatem Wells, a raczej jego opowiadania (i może jeszcze "Moxon's Master" Bierce'a, acz nie wiem kiedy został przetłumaczony). I przyznać trzeba, że na tle "Kryształowego jajka", "Filmera" czy innej "The Plattner Story" (celowo zostaję przy oryginalnym tytule, polski gubi nazwisko bohatera) "Przyjaciel" nie wypada najgorzej.