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Children of Time....
Mar. 11th, 2013 12:41 am
The whole denoument makes no sense, of course, except in that they had to get the crew back to the station or else end the show right there. And that "mirror the ship" idea was both a cop-out and not at all the perfect solution it sounds like, because half of the two crews would still be stranded.
But seriously, they had already agreed to leave equipment that didn't survive the crash, not worrying that the lack of this wreckage would impact the future. Couldn't Kira have gone home, perhaps with some of the settlers, on a shuttlecraft? Or stayed there and waited to be rescued when Starfleet heard the probe's message? That option is a little risky, but it's far from certain death. Hell, the crew could even have still put the grave down, why not?
And everybody harping on "8000" people has forgotten about their ancestors. It's got to be far more than that wiped from existence! Speaking of which, if they started with under 50 people, and have been around 200 years, shouldn't they be starting to suffer from a severe bottleneck effect? Maybe that probe, back when they thought they'd make it through, should've asked for some new settlers.
But it all raises an interesting question. We know that in the Star Trek universe changing the timeline results in things changing automatically - people get wiped from existence, cities appear and disappear, photos in historical records are automatically corrected and nobody notices except the people who caused this.
We also know that in the Star Trek universe it is possible to go to parallel universes where history went differently. Sometimes you can even go back and forth between the same two timelines consistently, although the mirror universe never has made sense to me, not even in the original episode, one of the few TOS episodes I've seen.
If you were about to be wiped from existence using those rules, and fled to a parallel universe using one of the many many so called "explanations" for this option, would you survive the historical changes that happened back in your "home" universe? And if you did, could you immigrate back?
Not that hopping back and forth between parallel universes makes much sense either. Shouldn't the act of moving split your universe into "the one where you made the trip" and "the one where you didn't"? And since history continues while you're gone, how would you know which of many worlds is the most correct one, flip a coin? Better move fast before somebody crucial gets assassinated or starts a war! And if you're doing it randomly, what is to prevent you from ending up in a parallel universe where the only difference is that your middle name is Ann instead of Anna, or some planet three galaxies away that you never heard of was blown up? Bad for them, but you don't exactly care, right? But fiction never explores this possibility, have you noticed? We could all be constantly traveling through to parallel universes all the time and never notice because the changes just aren't visible to us!
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I should go to bed.
But seriously, they had already agreed to leave equipment that didn't survive the crash, not worrying that the lack of this wreckage would impact the future. Couldn't Kira have gone home, perhaps with some of the settlers, on a shuttlecraft? Or stayed there and waited to be rescued when Starfleet heard the probe's message? That option is a little risky, but it's far from certain death. Hell, the crew could even have still put the grave down, why not?
And everybody harping on "8000" people has forgotten about their ancestors. It's got to be far more than that wiped from existence! Speaking of which, if they started with under 50 people, and have been around 200 years, shouldn't they be starting to suffer from a severe bottleneck effect? Maybe that probe, back when they thought they'd make it through, should've asked for some new settlers.
But it all raises an interesting question. We know that in the Star Trek universe changing the timeline results in things changing automatically - people get wiped from existence, cities appear and disappear, photos in historical records are automatically corrected and nobody notices except the people who caused this.
We also know that in the Star Trek universe it is possible to go to parallel universes where history went differently. Sometimes you can even go back and forth between the same two timelines consistently, although the mirror universe never has made sense to me, not even in the original episode, one of the few TOS episodes I've seen.
If you were about to be wiped from existence using those rules, and fled to a parallel universe using one of the many many so called "explanations" for this option, would you survive the historical changes that happened back in your "home" universe? And if you did, could you immigrate back?
Not that hopping back and forth between parallel universes makes much sense either. Shouldn't the act of moving split your universe into "the one where you made the trip" and "the one where you didn't"? And since history continues while you're gone, how would you know which of many worlds is the most correct one, flip a coin? Better move fast before somebody crucial gets assassinated or starts a war! And if you're doing it randomly, what is to prevent you from ending up in a parallel universe where the only difference is that your middle name is Ann instead of Anna, or some planet three galaxies away that you never heard of was blown up? Bad for them, but you don't exactly care, right? But fiction never explores this possibility, have you noticed? We could all be constantly traveling through to parallel universes all the time and never notice because the changes just aren't visible to us!
...
I should go to bed.
