Star Trek shower thoughts...
If they can go back in time, why not go back 5 minutes so you can say "hey, security officer wilheim is gonna get fucked up if you go down there, try this instead"?
Maybe there's a temporal prime directive saying "don't fuck with the timeline", but.... They were fucking with the timeline in every series at least a few times a season...
So how many of those episodes where they tried desperately to figure out how to make sure they don't die in the main timeline end up being violations?
How many of those episodes should have been like "no, we need to accept our deaths because we might mess with the timeline if we don't"?
I know there's the episode with the enterprise c, but not only did that have a known consequence rather than a vague one, they fucked with the timeline anyway and ended up with a stupid sexy romulan (I think Sela, a half romulan whose mother was a Tasha yar who wasn't supposed to be on the enterprise C)....
That storyline feels like a different story, discussing sending another ship off to die. I'm interested more in the enterprise or Voyager itself. Like "the right thing to do here.... Is to let ourselves die, knowing we could change it" -- and leave it ambiguous as to whether there'd even be an effect. Do you die for a principle even though there may not even be a benefit?
Now that could be a cool episode of a trek. I don't recall anything quite like that.
It's interesting that the final storylines of both TNG and Voyager both involved time travel, though I think only the former had any consequences for it, but that leads to another problem: if you change the future such that you don't need to change the future, then you don't exist and don't do the thing so there isn't even anyone to punish. You can't very well punish the alternative history version who didn't do anything wrong... Or could you?
If they can go back in time, why not go back 5 minutes so you can say "hey, security officer wilheim is gonna get fucked up if you go down there, try this instead"?
Maybe there's a temporal prime directive saying "don't fuck with the timeline", but.... They were fucking with the timeline in every series at least a few times a season...
So how many of those episodes where they tried desperately to figure out how to make sure they don't die in the main timeline end up being violations?
How many of those episodes should have been like "no, we need to accept our deaths because we might mess with the timeline if we don't"?
I know there's the episode with the enterprise c, but not only did that have a known consequence rather than a vague one, they fucked with the timeline anyway and ended up with a stupid sexy romulan (I think Sela, a half romulan whose mother was a Tasha yar who wasn't supposed to be on the enterprise C)....
That storyline feels like a different story, discussing sending another ship off to die. I'm interested more in the enterprise or Voyager itself. Like "the right thing to do here.... Is to let ourselves die, knowing we could change it" -- and leave it ambiguous as to whether there'd even be an effect. Do you die for a principle even though there may not even be a benefit?
Now that could be a cool episode of a trek. I don't recall anything quite like that.
It's interesting that the final storylines of both TNG and Voyager both involved time travel, though I think only the former had any consequences for it, but that leads to another problem: if you change the future such that you don't need to change the future, then you don't exist and don't do the thing so there isn't even anyone to punish. You can't very well punish the alternative history version who didn't do anything wrong... Or could you?