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Dragons’s Egg [1] is a great sci-fi novel that explores this concept in the other direction.

Humans are the slow ones and the Aliens are creatures living on the surface of a neutron star. Humanity makes contact and generations of the aliens live, die, and develop technology over the course of several subjective days for the humans.

Highly recommend giving it a read~

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/263466



Time Trap is a campy sci-fi movie that explores a similar concept, teenagers get trapped in a cave where time elapses differently. Not highly recommended, but it’s good fun.


There's a ST:TNG episode in a similar vein, Blink of an Eye, although this involves different techobabble (tachyon field).


Minor nitpick, that episode is Voyager, not Next Generation. And it was directly inspired by Dragon's Egg.


Oops. You're right. I remembered it as TNG and didn't notice when I looked up the episode name. Wikipedia says "believed to be inspired by" but it would surprise me quite a bit if it weren't.

I didn't love Voyager overall but it had some pretty good episodes scattered throughout.


I'm watching this episode now and it's great! Thank god for Netflix and all the Star Treks on it. :) ;p xx


Thanks, I'll check it out! :) ;p xx




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