We'll always have TOS

[USS Triumphant]

It's like having your most favorite, warm, fuzzy teddybear that you've had for a long time, replaced with a cold, plastic crocodile just because you got busy with something else for awhile and forgot you left it laying on the bedroom floor for a couple of days.

For some of us, this already happened with Voyager (or TNG for some, but for me, it was Voyager), a long time ago. And after living with that void for some time, we're suddenly being offered something that, if it isn't the old teddybear, at least it is a new one that reminds us happily of the old one. And sure, it may turn out that, in the end, it just makes us miss the old teddybear even more. Hell, it may contain lead. But I'll take it, and the risk.

 

[Herkimer Jitty]

But I'll take it, and the risk.

"Risk is part of the game if you want to sit in that chair."

 

[xortex]

You really can't get better than TOS, you can only get different. like trying to write a better symphony than mozart. They should just try to make something as good, then we'll all be happy. He who wants too much ends up losing the little bit he had. Judas Iscariot should know.

 

[Ward Fowler]

Louis, this could be the beginning of a long, asocial existence in our parents basements.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

CAN Picard's/Sisko's/Janeway's era be as we've known it if Kirk's has been changed to the degree it has been?

Yes.

How?

Never heard of the 'butterfly' effect, have we?

 

[USS Triumphant]

Never heard of the 'butterfly' effect, have we?

Well, there's also a theory (that I don't agree with, but that doesn't mean it's wrong - what do I know? ) that changes in a timeline would be like ripples in a pool of quantum possibility. The ripples will spread a certain distance, depending on the initial energy of contact, and the size of the "rock" dropped in the pool, but eventually the pool settles back to the way it was, more or less.

Put another way, it says that even if there are changes in things in the movie, the universe itself will pull things back on track.

Personally, though, I'm with you - Ambassador Spock is now stuck in a quantum branch that isn't his own, but is determined to help however he can, anyway.

 

[M'Sharak]

CAN Picard's/Sisko's/Janeway's era be as we've known it if Kirk's has been changed to the degree it has been?

Yes.

How?

Never heard of the 'butterfly' effect, have we?

You must not have been here last week.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Yes.

How?

Never heard of the 'butterfly' effect, have we?

You must not have been here last week.

Apparently not.

But I *have* read A Sound Of Thunder...

 

[M'Sharak]

CAN Picard's/Sisko's/Janeway's era be as we've known it if Kirk's has been changed to the degree it has been?

Yes.

How?

Never heard of the 'butterfly' effect, have we?

You must not have been here last week.

Apparently not.

But I *have* read A Sound Of Thunder...

So have a lot of people on this board; it's sort of Science Fiction 101, wouldn't you say? The fact is that the butterfly effect has been coming up regularly in discussions here for months, including in some pretty ugly phases of last week's timeline brawl. I can do without waking that mess up again right away, and I'm not crazy about the taunting tone you used in raising it here.

 

[DaveyNY]

You must not have been here last week.

Apparently not.

But I *have* read A Sound Of Thunder...

So have a lot of people on this board; it's sort of Science Fiction 101, wouldn't you say? The fact is that the butterfly effect has been coming up regularly in discussions here for months, including in some pretty ugly phases of last week's timeline brawl. I can do without waking that mess up again right away, and I'm not crazy about the taunting tone you used in raising it here.

Oh,.... but the 3000 word, individual posts were so enlightining...


.....NOT!

<snicker>

(still can't believe I read the whole damn thing!!!)


And actually...the original post was quite cleaver.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Ambassador Spock is now stuck in a quantum branch that isn't his own, but is determined to help however he can, anyway.

He's been in one ever since, as "Cousin Selek", he watched his childhood pet die several years too early. ("Yesteryear").

 

[USS Triumphant]

He's been in one ever since, as "Cousin Selek", he watched his childhood pet die several years too early. ("Yesteryear").

True enough, if one regards TAS as canon. To me, the whole TAS seems to have taken place in a parallel universe - one in which the Larry Niven material seems to exist (like the Kzinti) when they don't seem to anywhere else in the series.

Memory Alpha agrees that it is canon, though, so what do I know?

If it is canon, then yes, it would seem you are correct.