tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540484915710987134.post8287498790048945501..comments2023-06-05T02:58:09.181-07:00Comments on T = Time: Hello again, and Picard is stupid.Matsbyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14075673733386181090noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540484915710987134.post-33106378143277628122009-10-19T15:55:59.201-07:002009-10-19T15:55:59.201-07:00If we traveled back in time, would we go to our ow...If we traveled back in time, would we go to our own timeline (with all its paradoxes), or create a divergent timeline? <br /><br />Maybe Spock has the answer. It depends HOW we travel in time. Because he has done both!<br /><br />Maybe both forms of time travel are possible, and it all comes down to how you do it. If you slingshot around a sun, or use weird artifacts left behind on alien planets or libraries, then its your own timeline. But if you do it with that weird substance from Abrams' movie, then you go to a divergent one instead.<br /><br />In the Abrams' universe, is there any way for (old) Spock to get back to his own timeline? A slingshot won't do it, nor weird alien artifacts, because those just move you about in the timeline you're already in.Robert Vollmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08275044623767553681noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540484915710987134.post-20924942592937035652009-10-19T09:02:54.312-07:002009-10-19T09:02:54.312-07:00Precisely right Matsby - there are no stakes at pl...Precisely right Matsby - there are no stakes at play if there are no consequences on the time traveler's own timeline.Steve Evansnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540484915710987134.post-35489726722476908062009-10-18T16:22:18.130-07:002009-10-18T16:22:18.130-07:00It's an interesting suggestion. Does it take m...It's an interesting suggestion. Does it take more guts as a time travel fiction writer to maintain one changeable (or unchangeable) timeline than it does to just make all changes take place in diverging and parallel timelines? <br /><br />Although both are possible theories I think I would agree that diverging timelines can sometimes feel like a cop-out to the reader/viewer. <br /><br />Maybe it's because I want the person's actions to mean something - to have changed something. I want consequences to their actions. And when it's done as an alternate timeline, they just can do whatever they want with no consequences - and little explanation other than "oh don't worry no paradoxes because the timelines diverged".Matsbyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14075673733386181090noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8540484915710987134.post-17182935128061945262009-10-16T09:49:28.231-07:002009-10-16T09:49:28.231-07:00Fun Fact 1:
The guy who starred in Voyagers! accid...Fun Fact 1:<br />The guy who starred in Voyagers! accidentally shot himself in the head with a prop gun.<br /><br />Fun Fact 2: <br />Since he was hooked up to life support, his mother apparently gave permission for all of his organs to be given for transplants.<br /><br />Fun Fact 3:<br />An escort service owner got his heart.Scott B.http://www.bycommonconsent.com/scottnoreply@blogger.com