hey that actually makes sense. Transporter + time warp = temporal reintegration. Still doesn't explain the timeline reset but at least nobody gets killed.
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hey that actually makes sense. Transporter + time warp = temporal reintegration. Still doesn't explain the timeline reset but at least nobody gets killed.
That's always been my understanding of it as well, even before 'rentegration' was a thing in Voyager, I just assumed that they merged the two Christophers into one.
Actually, they beam back the pilot first. They appear to go maximally far back to the past, change temporal direction ("Chronometers moving forward again, Captain"), do the first "drop", then fly further toward the future and do the second "drop".
Time paradoxes don't appear to be an issue for our heroes here. Only practical things like getting caught or having to accommodate a man from the past are. I guess the Temporal Prime Directive was invented much later. Although with "Temporal" things, you can never really tell for sure...
Timo Saloniemi
I find it a totally pointless, boring 1st season episode -- just an excuse to have them interact with someone from the 20th century (which is also just a money saver.) Also a little fan service in that a lot of folks wished they could see the future like the Christopher did.
Both Naked Time (which was supposed to lead into this episode) and "Tomorrow.." have virtually nothing to offer by using a potentially awesome event like time travel. "Assignment:.." also makes it seem so routine as to be yawn worthy. Send an entire ship and crew back just to observe the past? LOL.
Thank god "City.." was so well done.
Imagine 3 other alternate universes that are boring and much weaker than "Mirror.." to dilute the awesomeness of that classic.
Both Naked Time (which was supposed to lead into this episode) and "Tomorrow.." have virtually nothing to offer by using a potentially awesome event like time travel. "Assignment:.." also makes it seem so routine as to be yawn worthy. Send an entire ship and crew back just to observe the past? LOL.
Thank god "City.." was so well done.
Imagine 3 other alternate universes that are boring and much weaker than "Mirror.." to dilute the awesomeness of that classic.
I always thought that they were "beamed back into themselves" before the events of the future actually happened, meaning the time line of Christopher being on the ship was erased and to them it never happened. But that doesn't make sense because to the crew it did happen...So when they were beamed back into themselves (which doesn't make sense) their memories were simply erased.
For a show who's flagship technology (transporters) revolve around murder and cloning, I'm not sure why either they or the audience would expect some other explanation. Not that any explanation for it explains anything else that happened in the episode, too. The pilot should never have even been sent up since the Enterprise was "never" there in the first place, causing the base to send someone up to check it out.
The Enterprise disappears from the prior timeline (to which we return to ditch the two guys), because that earlier version of the Enterprise is the one that left to fly around the sun, and is thus one and the same as the returning Enterprise.
Put another way, the ship was not duplicated the way Christopher was, because it did not exist here prior to its arrival at the beginning of the episode.
The science is settled on this. The time for debate is over.
Put another way, the ship was not duplicated the way Christopher was, because it did not exist here prior to its arrival at the beginning of the episode.
The science is settled on this. The time for debate is over.
I must...
Spockboy
OK that was awesome......
Spock's scanner with the confederate flag on it. haha
By going back in time, and passing through those events again, and doing them differently. The Ent was still in the sky, because that's why the planes were sent looking for a UFO. I guess they just cleared out before a positive ID of a UFO could be made, the second time around. It was a redo.
The ending of this episode is preposterous. It's a testament to how great this episode is that people don't think that this is worse than Spock's Brain (or Alternative Factor - the actual worst episode) just because of this non-resolution.
But the rest of the episode is top notch, so we ignore the terrible (TERRIBLE) ending.
But the rest of the episode is top notch, so we ignore the terrible (TERRIBLE) ending.
Actually Plato's Stepchildren was a lot worse than The Alternative Factor in my opinion!
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