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[QUOTE]Originally posted by David Templar: [QB] Well, I guess I'd be one of those few who utterly despised the premise of this episode (the acting was fine, tech was as lame as usual). Maybe I'm too used to how quickly people become aware of the potential for temporal paradoxes in TOS through VOY, but that doesn't excuse this episode for the way it justifies itself. You got everyone's running around making decisions that they would find utterly stupid had they the least bit of inkling of what a paradox could do. How could anyone open fire on their ancestors and not expect any consequences? Doesn't preventing yourself from being born ever occur to you when you're stopping your parents from getting together? I mean, it's the writers' job to tell us a story that would suspend our disbelief. Simply telling us that we shouldn't bother thinking about the paradox doesn't do that. The old "the anomoly shielded us from the change in the timeline" excuse would have worked just fine here, even if it's very banal. The NX-present is full of the "brightest" of Earth, the NX-past had 150 years to think about this, you'd think someone, somewhere on screen, would have said SOMETHING about the two NXs applying kinetic energy to the rear access manifold of the timeline in a manner that is beyond the timeline's design specifications and safety limits. Finally, coupled with a convinent temporal-copying machine plot device, this episode seem like something VOY would do. The progression of the episode is predictable, relies completely on unfathomable ignorance to produce one poor decision after another, blah blah blah, blah blah blah, blah, etc etc. *realizes what he's complaining about, suddenly very very tired* [/QB][/QUOTE]
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