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

Jay P Hailey wrote:

>I hate time travel.  My opinion is, at the first blush - a writer would have
>to be some sort of moron to look at the Trek universe and need time travel
>to tell a story.
>
I would say I hate it, but it's not my favorite concept.


>Especially when it involves a Trek crew going back in time and saving the
>Earth.  What a writer is saying there is that he admits he could never write
>a different world or any characters on it well enough to engage our
>sympathy.  he has to metaphorically threaten us before he feels wed give a
>damn what happens in his story.
>

Agreed here.  With a new class M world around every corner who needs time
travel?  The two time travel episodes done in TOS work for me because.  A) 
They didn't seek to change anything.  B) One as a accident and the other an
observation trip.  In both cases the time came out exactly as it had come
out.

>
>This is my entire bitch with ST:FC.   STIV:TVH  avoids this *a little*
>because Leonard Nimoy wanted to A) reduce production costs as sharply as he
>could and B) wanted to make a political statement about Saving the Whales
>here on Earth.
>
TVH works for me because they didn't go into the past to save the past, but
to get something they needed to save their now.  And again they sought, for
the most part, to make as little splash as they could.



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