Taye Diggs was stuck in a temporal loop in Day Break. He had the good fortune to start every episode with Moon Bloodgood in her underwear. That's a time travel bonus.
Is there some law against black people travelling through time?
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If a black man went back to the 1700s and tried to stop slavery, he'd likely end up in chains himself, or executed, so for his sake i'd hope he'd leave it alone, one man cannot stop the machine. Where would he go to stop it anyway...Africa, Middle East, American continent, it was a very wide spread practice, not confined to southern whites.
Yes, the whole Onslaught thing is what I referring to. He did technically save the X-Men but you could argue he caused something worse.
Hey, I never said he was a smart black guy who time traveled.
Oh, and John Stewart has time traveled at least a few times across various media.
In Eureka, Henry (Joe Morton) has time-travelled on a couple of different occasions, and Allison (Salli Richardson-Whitfield) has done so as well. There have also been time-travel storylines in the Stargate franchise that have involved characters like Teal'c and Sgt. Greer.
Really, I don't see any merit to the title question here. There are plenty of works of fiction that fit the bill. Like, what about that Denzel Washington movie, Deja Vu?
Really, I don't see any merit to the title question here. There are plenty of works of fiction that fit the bill. Like, what about that Denzel Washington movie, Deja Vu?
What if the black guy had superpowers?
We're talking about works of fiction for Robert Maxwell's sake!
Or maybe he brought back awesome future technology, like an iPod or a Cuisinart.
Where would he plug it in?
Humor, it is a difficult concept.
A wall socket obviously, wtf kinda question is that Christopher?!
I think the OP was just making a tongue-in-cheek point about Seven Days, but what trivia fan could resist coming up with counter-examples?
That was such a rudely phrased riposte that I can't tell whether you're playing along with the joke (and Robert seems to have missed that I was making a joke -- the Internet is frustrating for a deadpan comic like myself). We are talking about time travel to the 1700s, right?
Anyway, if a black man (or a woman) went back in time with a fantastic invention or scientific theory or whatnot, some white guy would probably just swipe credit for it. That's what happened to most of the women and minorities who really did make important scientific breakthroughs, like Lise Meitner and Henrietta Leavitt. Although we did get the rare exception like George Washington Carver.
I thought it was pretty obvious that I was just playing along with the joke. I'm not really ignorant enough to believe there were wall sockets in the 17th century.
Everybody knows electricity was wireless back then.
Speaking of Sisko and to, perhaps, prove Robert Maxwell correct, there was another time Sisko travelled through time...and screwed up things for the establishment.
Sisko is all the proof you need of why the black man can't be allowed to travel through time.
But, to be fair, he was only half black man. The other half was nonlinear space ghost (but not Space Ghost.)
Janeway fucks up that theory. Janeway who's a very white woman has zero regard for the continuity of the time line. Multiple times she's seen onscreen blatantly violating the 'temporal prime directive.'
Well, what if the black guy (or a white guy, or a black woman etc.) went further back - say to Ancient Rome or Ancient Egypt? He could set himself up as a god, ban slavery and maybe prolong the hegemony of Rome or Egypt, changing the political map profoundly and creating a slaveless social paradigm for the developed world millennia ahead of schedule.
Doctor Who almost had a black Doctor in Paterson Joseph. They probably would just have treated race as a non-issue, but certain stories would have been just begging to be told. Strangely, he might find seventeenth or eighteenth century Britain much more hospitable than the nineteenth or twentieth. Maybe it had to do with competition and the opening up of the "dark continent" to the West.
Part of the problem with Trek time travel episodes/scenarios is by the time we reach Voyager and with Enterprise they've established the fact that by the 31st century some SF entity monitors the past for continuity changes.
So presumably anything that might not fit with the 31st century view on what is appropriate history is stopped.
Daniels in ST Enterprise and Braxton in Voyager establishes the fact that time travel is closely monitored by the Federation.