Time Travel and its consequences

[Silvercrest]

No, but they've determined it's unfair.

 

[Unimatrix Q]

It is still my favorite explanation for some of the mistakes and retcons that happen from time to time.

I guess there are always some time travelers contaminating the timeline and the DTI can't fix it all

 

[Thanos007]

It is still my favorite explanation for some of the mistakes and retcons that happen from time to time.

I guess there are always some time travelers contaminating the timeline and the DTI can't fix it all

His would the DTI even know anything has been effected? I just hate that Time Travel has become so common that there's a bureau for it.

 

[Delta Vega]

Have they perchance determined that time travel is impossible?

They asked me, and I told them

 

[STEPhon IT]

it's the complete absence of negative results that gets me. imagine the tng enterprise returning to the 24th century, and data was suddenly gone. errased from existance. there's another character sitting at ops, and everyone treats this guy like he's always been there.

It's what frustrated me about the movie First Contact, the crew can blend in with Cochrane's people and spill the beans on everything about the future and also join in on the so called historical moments. LOL! It's unbelievable. There should be negative ramifications by violating the timeline; something the crew must avoid to keep the story interesting.

 

[CommanderRaytas]

Can't you just handwave it by saying it was always a closed loop? Probably only works if you don't think about it too hard, though.

 

[Crazyewok]

Picard: Mr Data set course back to the 24th century.
Data: Yes sir
Riker: i hope that bug i stepped on washes of my shoes.
ENTEPRISE RETURNS TO FUTURE data turns into gold robotic tellarite android.
Picard: Mr information any changes to the time line.
Information: No sir.
Picard: Good
Picard turns to romulan wolf.
Picard: Hail Starfleet and inform them of our condition.

 

[F. King Daniel]

His would the DTI even know anything has been effected? I just hate that Time Travel has become so common that there's a bureau for it.

One of Shatner's novels had Kirk attend a symposium for time-displaced persons. Hundreds of people showed up

 

[1001001]

It's what frustrated me about the movie First Contact, the crew can blend in with Cochrane's people and spill the beans on everything about the future and also join in on the so called historical moments. LOL! It's unbelievable. There should be negative ramifications by violating the timeline; something the crew must avoid to keep the story interesting.

I guess you could say there were negative consequences in Enterprise.

But then those events should have changed the timeline, as humanity should have been fully prepared for the Borg when they came many years later.





My take on it: time travel to the past is impossible, so any story written about it is going to have a fatal flaw somewhere. It's best to go the Austin Powers route: Don't think about it too much, and just enjoy yourself.

 

[KimMH]

Picard: Mr Data set course back to the 24th century.
Data: Yes sir
Riker: i hope that bug i stepped on washes of my shoes.
ENTEPRISE RETURNS TO FUTURE data turns into gold robotic tellarite android.
Picard: Mr information any changes to the time line.
Information: No sir.
Picard: Good
Picard turns to romulan wolf.
Picard: Hail Starfleet and inform them of our condition.

 

[USS Firefly]

Maybe a little sidestep, but what is a good time travel novel?

 

[Kilana2]

And travelling into the future is also dangerous: what happens if Doc Brown travels into the year 2285 and runs into Commander Kruge....... What does it mean for our timeline?

 

[Unimatrix Q]

His would the DTI even know anything has been effected? I just hate that Time Travel has become so common that there's a bureau for it.

I guess they have scanners to detect temporal ananomalies and incursions like it was seen in Christopher Bennett's DTI Novels.

 

[Kilana2]

Is there a vaccination against Temporal Psychosis?

 

[KimMH]

And travelling into the future is also dangerous: what happens if Doc Brown travels into the year 2285 and runs into Commander Kruge....... What does it mean for our timeline?

If it has already happened and the temporal kerblooey has resulted in a fractured timeline that is all cattywompus - oh wait. Maybe that Musk guy is right and we’re all stuck in a crazy computer simulation.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

I think time travel involves going to a parallel universe. Perhaps extremely difficult to distinguish as different, but different nonetheless.

You, as a time traveler, can affect the history of a timeline in any universe except the one that you originated from.

From your perspective, you may be able to achieve your desired results, for all practical purposes, but not in your original universe.

This approach was used by the webcomic Faans. It was a story about a future warlord after all war ended and she was decommissioned, started going back in time to try to create universes with destroyed futures so she could then conquer them and create a base of power for conquering her prime universe.

It worked really well in that story, but in most sci-fi situations, that would make the jeopardy seem more trivial because it can’t have any main universe consequences.

I like the Lost approach of “You can go back in time but will just end up causing what originally happened”.

 

[JirinPanthosa]

His would the DTI even know anything has been effected? I just hate that Time Travel has become so common that there's a bureau for it.

Because of temporal shielding.

Being temporally shielded basically removes you from from the space time continuum so any changes to it don’t affect you.

 

[TrickyDickie]

in most sci-fi situations, that would make the jeopardy seem more trivial because it can’t have any main universe consequences.

 

[at Quark's]

I think the paranoia would be the worst, the feeling you really can't trust anything or anyone anymore.

(writing in my diary: ) "Having doubts about my beloved wife .... I know I have had a stable, loving, strong relation with her since we met over 30 years ago... but was this already true yesterday?"

 

[Tenacity]

His would the DTI even know anything has been ...

the perfect government job. you are essentual, because you keep telling the funding sub-commttee that you are.

"we saved the entire federation just last week."

"i don't remember that."

"exactly senator."

It's what frustrated me about the movie First Contact, the crew can blend in with Cochrane's people and spill the beans on everything about the future and also join in on the so called historical moments. LOL! It's unbelievable. There should be negative ramifications by violating the timeline; something the crew must avoid to keep the story interesting.

i believe (head canon).
originally (prime universe) no one of cochrane's launch crew were killed by the borg.

the first warp flight consisted of cochrane, lily, and another person from the mid-21st century.

no one originally from the enterprise d flew on cochrane's first warp flight.

the nx-01 wasn't original named enterprise

the ENT episode with the borg originally didn't happen.