Thursday, May 3, 2018

Heathen Trek

The other day I was thinking about Star Trek, which is not out of the ordinary for me, and my mind went to the Galactic Barrier. This is the energy field seen in the episodes "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "By Any Other Name", and "Is There in Truth No Beauty?" from The Original Series. It surrounds the Milky Way Galaxy and, while it doesn't prevent intergalactic travel, it certainly makes it extremely dangerous.

So we have this huge, dangerous thing that surround where humans are. Of course I then went to Jörmungandr, the Midgard Serpent, and then my entire world view had a seismic shift. As an abstract, I have always considered our "reality" or "dimension" to be Midgard. What if it's simpler than that, though, and Midgard is actually our galaxy? That would make Jörmungandr the Galactic Barrier and, while not as huge as if he was encircling our dimension, he would be of an epic scale. You can see why Hymir was a little nervous when Thor hooked the serpent during a fishing trip.


This makes the Nine Worlds a little smaller. I would still consider Hel/Niflheim and Muspelheim to be different dimensions, but the remainder would be other galaxies. That means that getting to and from them would be difficult, but not like getting back from Hel. It also makes the Marvel version a bit closer to being acceptable to me. I don't buy the one planet idea for places like Jotenheim, but I can accept a galaxy.

I don't know about you, but I love it when my varied interests can cross over like this.

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