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That's very true. If I had to choose between the timeline risk of removing a woman who would be dead in hours, or removing one who might last a few decades... well, there's no question who to choose.
The manner of time travel prevents this. The Guardian sends them back to "Put time back the way it was", meaning that they're stuck there until Edith dies that night being hit by a truck. They can't whisk her away because they can't go home until she's dead. There is no choice in the matter.
 
The manner of time travel prevents this. The Guardian sends them back to "Put time back the way it was", meaning that they're stuck there until Edith dies that night being hit by a truck. They can't whisk her away because they can't go home until she's dead. There is no choice in the matter.

Remember, Trek timelines are durable. If one person could disappear without gunking up the timeline (the hobo who found the phaser), it seems reasonable that two could.
 
Edith has to stay put and take one for the team. :(

Gillian, on the other hand, lives in a time when whales aren't properly valued. People were interested in avoiding war back in the 1930s, but no one* cared about saving the whales in the 1980s. Dr. Taylor won't be missed; she was as valued as Rodent in his time.** ;)

* - Figuratively speaking, of course.

** - Obviously somewhat in jest, but there is this subtext there, if you look for it.

McCoy's jab, "It's a miracle these people ever got out of the twentieth century," can be taken as a biting criticism of more than just their medicine. Besides being environmentally foolhardy (whales, pollution,...), there are swipes at money (obviously*** the use of it at all, not just the use of physical currency), nuclear power, nuclear warheads also, the medicine, smoking, antisocial behavior on public transportation ;).

*** - "We've got to find some" in the context of "They're still using money" seals that deal. Otherwise, it would just be, "We need money in the currency of the day."

I mean, it wouldn't have hurt to patch up the transparent aluminum scene with something more solid, like say Scott remembering the actual name of the person who invented it, and it being the name of the man they gave the formula to. That's fair.

They need Dr. Taylor though to save those whales once they get to the future. So that would have been a calculated risk, anyway.
 
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Even the Son'a weren't completely, 100% in the wrong. The Ba'ku even admit they banished them from their society to punish them for pursuing different ideas that the Ba'ku found improper.

And the attempt may have been unsuccessful and just ruined things for everyone. Better for it to be a spa world. Sadly for Keeler, there are no happy endings.

The worst deaths are those devoured by the Dravidians.
 
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Did you read a book where she went bonkers?

No. Haven't read any Trek novels except for Q-Squared. and The Devil's Heart.

I thought I had read some summary of a story with Gillian in it and it mentioned her having some kind of breakdown living in the future or something.
 
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