Murder!! In Time

[RobertScorpio]

Quasi-review of TOMORROW IS YESTERDAY

Was watching Tomorrow is Yesterday (via XBOX360/Netflix streaming and in HIDEF!) and at the end, the Enterprise ends up beaming Captain Christopher and the guard back down, but before the events happened....my son, only five years old, had some interesting questions.

When the pilot is beamed back down, he is beamed back into the jet, and his body 'beams' into his other body. And the way the scene plays out, it is clear this is a new time line because the events of the episode no longer happened because he isn't beamed up, and thus, has no memories. Same thing with the guard I suppose...

So just what happened to the pilots other 'body' when the other one beamed in? And exactly how did they do that??? Was it just wiped from existence? Or was the pilot we saw in the episode wiped from existence and "rebooted" the moment he went into his earlier body?

Well...anyway, I did like the new effects for this episode. I liked the 'atmosphere' shots of the Enterprise, especially when Capt Christopher is coming up from under the Enterprise...really cool stuff there.....

And since the episode caused my son to ask me questions about time-lines, I rate the episode a qualified success!!! It inspired timeline talk from a five-year old. (He is already versed in DC comics muliverse so is already ahead of the curve)...

New effects I rate A+
Print of the episode was awesome! Movie quality!
And, of course, the Shatner grade? A+. He was on target in this episode.


Rob
Scorpio

 

[Shatinator]

Ahh, the age old question what happened to Captain Christopher? Y'know DC Fontana has been asked this question herself along with the pesky question on how is the enterprise going mult warp speed directly to the sun in a solor system no less, she finally admitted it circled the sun, I think a Best of... handled that question too. But to Capt. Christopher, oh how can one say...their can only be one.
: )

 

[Kelso]

When you go back in time, you replace your former self.

 

[RobertScorpio]

When you go back in time, you replace your former self.

I tried to explain it using DC COMIC's mantra that two people can not exist at the sametime...there was a DC COMIC'S PRESENTS episode where Flash and Superman are racing, through time. When Superman reaches the 30th Century he cant go on.

The reason is because Superboy was there, part of the Legion of Superheroes. And now both were stuck. Superman and Superboy had to collide at super-speeds to knock each other out of the same point in time...

So I guess, in Star Trek's time, as you said Kelso, young Christopher can not exist with Christopher from the episode.

Strangely enough, I think the best part of Back to The Future is when Mcfly is watching his younger self being shot at by the terrorist at the end of the movie, and his trying to stop it...

Oh...the mind!!!

Rob

 

[Maurice]

Such an idiotic ending. Let's beam the guy back into himself. Huh? And what did they do about the Enterprise in the past Christopher was tracking? Did it magically disappear because there was another Enterprise now racing forward in time? Stupid stupid stupid. They shouldn't have made a time travel episode until The City on the Edge of Forever.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Love the episode. Knew from the topic title on the BBS front page, though, whose it was - it doesn't say anything sensibly, but it says it with peculiar emphasis.

 

[Too Much Fun]

This is one of those episodes where it's best not to think about it too much and just enjoy the ride. I really enjoy it, but it's undoubtedly full of faulty logic and plot holes. The text commentary on the "Time Travel" DVD set that's it's on even hilariously points that out by asking "how is it possible that...?" questions. Not the most intelligently written or most well-thought out episode, but still a delightful romp. One of my favourite more comedic episodes of "Star Trek".

 

[Timo]

What happened to Christopher and the guard sergeant is easy enough to justify: Kirk needed them both dead, but he would have wanted to make it easy and painless for them. And convincing them that this future technology applied in this exotic manner would preserve their lives was a very humane way to set up their execution.

Copies of the two men would go on living, so Kirk would have few qualms about murdering the originals/other copies. Indeed, he and McCoy had come to a rare agreement that the shipboard version of Capt. Christopher would have no future in the future, not even after amnesia treatments or other courses of action speculated upon.

However, Christopher would certainly have had qualms about dying. So arranging for the silly lightshow of the transporter use was a quick and easy way to alleviate his concerns. It would also dazzle the other version of him in the cockpit enough to make him lose sight of the Enterprise - and all other record of the ship would have been purged by Kirk and Sulu already, leaving the pilot's testimony basically worthless.

It's not that bad in the end, then - even though it's obvious the writers never gave it much thought, leaving us fans to do all the hard thinking.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Trevacious]

And since the episode caused my son to ask me questions about time-lines, I rate the episode a qualified success!!! It inspired timeline talk from a five-year old. (He is already versed in DC comics muliverse so is already ahead of the curve)...

Hah, that's awesome.

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

That "painless execution" explanation is easily the least satisfying excuse for a Star Trek lapse of logic that I've seen in decades.

Dudes, a wizard did it - that's way preferable to "cold-blooded Kirk" and at least has some support based on what we actually saw.