To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com
From: Garry Stahl 
Reply-To: trekcreative{at}yahoogroups.com

maira manno wrote:

>JM - I've never quite comprehended the concept of a temporal cold war as
>relates to Star Trek. If you eliminate your enemies by going back in time to
>whack them before they become a threat, aren't you, according to most
>concepts of temporal physics, creating an alternate timeline in which to
>dwell? It's my understanding that current quantum theory precludes traveling
>into your own past.
>

You're point is valid.  However, when have the writers of Trek allowed
physics to get in the way of what they perceive as a good story?


>I wrote "Dreamtime" years ago, and plan "Unspoken
Wyrd" in just a few
>months, but these both use the "linear time" theory---that
time has one main
>line and doesn't really branch off, which makes a temporal cold war and
>changing history serious shit.
>
>Star Trek uses *both* of these concepts interchangeably, which is why it
>gets so convoluted.
>
>

I am a "Garden of Forking Paths" type myself.  I also use the Law
of the Conservation of Time.  Changing your own past is night unto
impossible, and changing the future is a null concept.  You cannot
"change" what has not happened.  In any case I never installed a
reset button on G-Trek.

--
Garry   AKA   -Phoenix-   Rising Above the Flames

Star Trek le mort.  Viva la Star Trek admiraetur.

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