Tomorrow is Yesterday

[Poltargyst]

See, #8 is what I was saying that no timeline is ever destroyed.

But I freely admit I back that theory just out of personal bias. I got so sick of time travel stories where someone goes back in time, and then we have to spend the entire episode fretting about someone saying or doing the wrong thing and wrecking the future. I want the original timeline to be unalterable. Then I can tell the characters to do what they need to do and quit worrying about it.

 

[Mytran]

I got so sick of time travel stories where someone goes back in time, and then we have to spend the entire episode fretting about someone saying or doing the wrong thing and wrecking the future. I want the original timeline to be unalterable. Then I can tell the characters to do what they need to do and quit worrying about it.

Ah yes - the Austin Powers theory of time travel!

To me, the most interesting implication is #7, Plaga's paper.

To me, the many worlds theory just ruins narrative tension even worse than time loops. It also makes the universe so fragmented and bitty

 

[CorporalCaptain]

To me, the many worlds theory just ruins narrative tension even worse than time loops.

It's a scientific theory. I'm doubt that Everett was thinking much of what it would do to pop culture.

 

[Mytran]

It's a scientific theory. I'm doubt that Everett was thinking much of what it would do to pop culture.

True, but Star Trek is hardly a science documentary either. And the picture of time travel presented in Trek doesn't mesh very well with the many-worlds interpretation, IMO