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n. A message written on a scrap of paper, rolled-up and put in an empty bottle and set adrift on the ocean; traditionally, a method used by castaways to advertise their distress to the outside world
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"Message in a Bottle" is the 14th episode of the fourth season of the American science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the 82nd episode overall. It aired on January 21, 1998 on the UPN network.
Set in the 24th century, the series follows the adventures of the Starfleet and Maquis crew of the starship USS Voyager after they were stranded in the Delta Quadrant far from the rest of the Federation. Using an ancient alien relay network, the ship's holographic Doctor is transmitted to the Alpha Quadrant to make contact with Starfleet Command.
Message in a Bottle is a 1999 American romantic drama film directed by Luis Mandoki and based on Nicholas Sparks' 1998 novel of the same name. It stars Kevin Costner, Robin Wright and Paul Newman, and was filmed in Maine, Chicago and Wilmington, North Carolina. The film was released on February 12, 1999 by Warner Bros.
A message in a bottle is a form of communication whereby a message is sealed in a container (archetypically a bottle) and released into a medium (archetypically a large body of water).
Messages in bottles have been used in crowdsourced scientific studies of ocean currents, as well as to send distress messages, memorial tributes, final reports and letters from those believing themselves to be doomed, and communications to actual or imagined love interests. Message-in-a-bottle lore has often been of a romantic or poetic nature.
Drift bottles have traveled great distances, including: from the Beaufort Sea above northern Alaska and northwestern Canada to northern Europe; from Antarctica to Tasmania; from Mexico to the Philippines; from Canada's Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay to Irish, French, Scottish, and Norwegian beaches; and from the Galapagos Islands to Queensland, Australia. Some drift bottles were not found for more than a century after being launched.
A message in a bottle is a form of communication whereby a message is sealed in a container and released into the sea or ocean.
Message in a bottle may also refer to:
- Message in a Bottle (film), 1999 film based on the 1998 Nicholas Sparks novel
- Message in a Bottle (novel), a 1998 novel by Nicholas Sparks
- Message in a Bottle (song), a 1979 song by The Police from their second album, Reggatta de Blanc
- "Message in a Bottle" (Stargate SG-1), a 1998 episode of Stargate SG-1
- Message in a Bottle (Star Trek: Voyager), a 1998 episode of Star Trek: Voyager
- The Message in the Bottle, collection of essays by novelist Walker Percy published in the 1970s
Message in a Bottle is the second romance novel written by American author Nicholas Sparks. The story, which explores the romance theme of love after grief, is set in the mid-late 1990s, then-contemporary Wilmington, North Carolina. The 1999 film Message in a Bottle produced by and starring Kevin Costner, is based on this novel.
"Message in a Bottle" is a song by English rock band the Police. It was released as the lead single from their second studio album, Reggatta de Blanc (1979). Written by the band's lead singer and bassist Sting, the song is ostensibly about a story of a castaway on an island, who sends out a message in a bottle to seek love. A year later, he has not received any sort of response, and despairs, thinking he is destined to be alone. The next day, he sees "a hundred billion bottles" on the shore, finding out that there are more people like him out there.
Rolling Stone ranked it number 65 on its list of the "100 Greatest Guitar Songs of All Time".