"flipper" wrote in message
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Seeing as how Spock is supposedly in the 'future' you must be
proposing another of those Star Trek 'temporal mechanics' dilemmas.

Speaking of which, is why I hate the new Star Trek Movie. They changed
the time line.

I've got a friend with whom it's virtually impossible to even discuss
it because as soon as you try mentioning anything about the movie they
scream: "THEY CHANGED THE TIME LINE !"

It's too bad they seem to confuse "temporal mechanics" every other
episode...

Sometimes, they'll do an episode where some story happens, which changes
itself, so only you, the viewer, know anything happened. The universe is
still the same as last week. They did that a few times on TNG.

More often, they do a Back To The Future type story, where the characters
are somehow aware of temporal changes, which is just silly.

Maybe about halfway through the serieses (DS9/Voyager?), the writers
seemed to make some effort to try to explain the perception of changes,
like the ship being masked by chronitons or something. One of the more
interesting episodes does both reasonably well.
http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Year_of_Hell_(episode)

But then, they mess things up in other ways, like how some episodes use a
multiverse, so time travel is apparently going between universes; changing
the past simply moves you to the universe where that change happened. But
then they go do an episode where it's all the same timeline.

Sigh... Oh well, maybe I've been watching too much Trek lately.

Tim

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