Star Trek: The Experience--causality loop?

[borg3060]

The original Klingon Encounter has been running for almost eleven years, and the Borg Encounter for the past four. Since the same things happen exactly the same way each time on the viewscreens and over the PA system, does this mean that the Doctor and Admiral Janeway have been fighting the Borg in a temporal causality loop for the past four years? And to think that the Enterprise-D crew thought that continually colliding with the USS Bozeman for a few weeks was bad-- poor Riker, LaForge and Picard have been fighting Korath multiple times a day for over a decade!

If the rides in The Experience are canon, does that mean with the closing of the Time Station in Las Vegas, Our Heroes will be able to close both the causality loops and get on with their missions?

 

[JNG]

If the rides in The Experience are canon

Who says they are?

 

[WendellM]

Makes sense. Maybe they should have the guy who wrote (or maybe Kelsey Grammer ) as a special guest to throw the switch which shuts it down and saves the crew(s).

 

[Biggshow]

When I worked there as a Klingon, we explained that Korath was the one stuck in the loop. Of course, we also treated each person that asked us about the situation as part of the "only" group that got stuck in the story. Our cover story was that the "real" Experience (the one that nobody gets to go on because they get abducted by Korath) starts with a shuttle simulator that takes the guests on a tour of the Federation and is escorted out of Vegas by the Klingons (we tried to make sense of what people may have seen in commercials, etc.). This shuttle tour (other details unknown) ends up at DS9 where guests are allowed to tour the bridge of the Enterprise-D which is currently docked there. Again, for those who have been, you know that in the current Klingon Encounter, guests are set down a level below the "actual" simulators in an unauthorized area, much to the chagrin of a startled janitor. Lately I noticed they cut the janitor role.

So far as the Borg dealio, I haven't really tried to figure out an explanation for why that keeps repeating. It was put in after I left so I never had to give it any thought.

I'm sure when the Time Station (AKA, The Experience) returns to the 24th Century under cover of a Vegas attraction being closed down, it will somehow close this loop, returning Korath to the regular space-time continuum so that future Janeway can obtain his time travel device.

 

[Keith1701]

Makes sense. Maybe they should have the guy who wrote (or maybe Kelsey Grammer ) as a special guest to throw the switch which shuts it down and saves the crew(s).

I'm still hoping to attend Star Trek: The Experience before September 2008.

 

[Jackson_Roykirk]

I don't know about "Star Trek: The Experience", but I do know of a big causality loop in TOS and TNG and our real world...

The original Space shuttle test vehicle (only flew from a 747, never into space) was named "Enterprise", specifically and directly because of the Star Trek (TOS) TV show. However, on TNG in the captain's ready room was the wall with an image of all of the ships named "Enterprise", and sure enough there was the space shuttle.

Therefore, if it wasn't for the TOS TV show, there would be no Space Shuttle named Enterprise, but if TNG acknowledges the fact that a space shuttle exists that was called "Enterprise", then Picard and the others are acknowledging that Kirk, Spock and the others were just a 1960s TV show.

Thinking about this logical paradox is enough to make an android or computer blow up.

 

[Dale]

I don't know about "Star Trek: The Experience", but I do know of a big causality loop in TOS and TNG and our real world...

The original Space shuttle test vehicle (only flew from a 747, never into space) was named "Enterprise", specifically and directly because of the Star Trek (TOS) TV show. However, on TNG in the captain's ready room was the wall with an image of all of the ships named "Enterprise", and sure enough there was the space shuttle.

Therefore, if it wasn't for the TOS TV show, there would be no Space Shuttle named Enterprise, but if TNG acknowledges the fact that a space shuttle exists that was called "Enterprise", then Picard and the others are acknowledging that Kirk, Spock and the others were just a 1960s TV show.

Thinking about this logical paradox is enough to make an android or computer blow up.

So what you're saying is... reality is canonical?

 

[Biggshow]

Therefore, if it wasn't for the TOS TV show, there would be no Space Shuttle named Enterprise, but if TNG acknowledges the fact that a space shuttle exists that was called "Enterprise", then Picard and the others are acknowledging that Kirk, Spock and the others were just a 1960s TV show.

Thinking about this logical paradox is enough to make an android or computer blow up.

Or it could be that the reason TOS (and by extension TNG, DS9, VOY and ENT) exist is that someone was smuggling Starfleet log entries back in time. This is, again, the explanantion we gave for the reason there was a time station in the first place; to discover the cause of the paradox.