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So, the "Xindi" attack Earth because they found out about Earth attacking their planet in 400 years time, presumably because of the Temporal Cold War thing.
Does this mean that: a) this has always been meant to happen, and they just never mentioned it before, or b) this changes the timeline?
In other episodes, present people altering past events has always resulted in changes to the timeline, and we have never (to my knowledge) had the "me going back in time and doing something actually caused what I remember happening all along" thing.
This could be the beginning of the Big Star Trek Reset Button...
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quote:Originally posted by Phoenix: In other episodes, present people altering past events has always resulted in changes to the timeline, and we have never (to my knowledge) had the "me going back in time and doing something actually caused what I remember happening all along" thing.
This could be the beginning of the Big Star Trek Reset Button...
We had something like that in "Parallex" and, er, that other VOY episode that was right next to it, where it turned out that responding to a distress call actually caused something to happen that resulted in time travel that resulted in Voyager going there. Or something. Both episodes made little sense, because neither of them had a way for a loop to get started. AND THEY WERE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER! Silly writers.
Actually, thinking about it, didn't "Return To Tomorrow" (or whatever that episode with Gary Seven was called) have this situation? The Enterprise went back in time, and it's events actually turned out to have been what happened all along, due to some very ropey checking by Spock.
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quote:Originally posted by Phoenix: In other episodes, present people altering past events has always resulted in changes to the timeline, and we have never (to my knowledge) had the "me going back in time and doing something actually caused what I remember happening all along" thing.
This could be the beginning of the Big Star Trek Reset Button...
We had something like that in "Parallex" and, er, that other VOY episode that was right next to it, where it turned out that responding to a distress call actually caused something to happen that resulted in time travel that resulted in Voyager going there. Or something. Both episodes made little sense, because neither of them had a way for a loop to get started. AND THEY WERE RIGHT NEXT TO EACH OTHER! Silly writers.
Actually, thinking about it, didn't "Return To Tomorrow" (or whatever that episode with Gary Seven was called) have this situation? The Enterprise went back in time, and it's events actually turned out to have been what happened all along, due to some very ropey checking by Spock.
I tend to avoid icky time travel episodes (especially Voyager ones), but it seems in this case that it could go either way...
I certainly think that a large chunk of America being obliterated is something that someone would have mentioned at some point.
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quote:Originally posted by Phoenix: I certainly think that a large chunk of America being obliterated is something that someone would have mentioned at some point.
Oh, not this again. How often do you mention specific natural disasters in your every day conversation? In all of Trek, they've mentioned the date of the fonding of the Federation barely once.
Or, if you don't agree, watch every episode of Cheers, and see how many times the Battle of Midway is mentioned. Or Hiroshima.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: [QUOTE]Originally posted by Phoenix: Or, if you don't agree, watch every episode of Cheers, and see how many times the Battle of Midway is mentioned. Or Hiroshima.
That'd be twice and four times respectively.
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quote:Originally posted by PsyLiam: Or, if you don't agree, watch every episode of Cheers, and see how many times the Battle of Midway is mentioned. Or Hiroshima.
That'd be twice and four times respectively. [/QB]
Cliff doesn't count.
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