From: kang-sung-moon@CS.YALE.EDU (Sung-Moon Kang)
Subject: Re: Time travel
Organization: Yale University Computer Science Dept., New Haven, CT 06520-2158
Distribution: usa,local
Date: Sat, 11 Apr 1992 19:07:04 GMT

In article <1992Apr11.124208.14187@usl.edu> tlb2665@usl.edu (Burleigh Thomas L) writes:

>In article <10APR199210532462@violet.ccit.arizona.edu> r13504141@violet.ccit.arizona.edu (Bob E. Schmoo) writes:

>>	Two weeks ago I watched (TNG) episode in which the Enterprise 
>>had become trapped in a time loop.  It seemed that this was caused
>>by a massive explosion which resulted from an impact with another
>>ship.  It was later explained that this was infact the case.  As it
>>turned out, the Enterprise had been caught in this loop for 7 days.
>>It was then learned that the ship the Enterprise had hit was another
>>confederation ship which had been caught in a similar loop for over
>>one-hundred years.  My question is that if the explosion was the
>>cause of the time loop, then what caused the other ship to be in
>>the loop for one-hundred years.  Obviously, the Enterprise could
>>not have been the cause.  Was this a mistake on th writers part, or
>>am I missing something.  

[Stuff deleted about this being an opinion and all that...]
[Ditto for me, by the way (-:]

>As I recall (my VCR messed up and didn't tape this episode :( ), the cause of
>the loop was the explosion of the Enterprise near a distortion in the space-
>time continuum (or some similar plot device :)  The Bermington had simply 
>forward about 80 years in time by means of this distortion (or whatever the
>heck it was :).

Really picky point... isn't the ship's name the Bozeman (or the
Boseman)?  But that's not the point of this follow up post....

>The only canonical reference I can provide is that episode where the 
>Enteprise-D encountered the Enterprise-C as it came through such a distortion.
>Assumedly, the same thing could have occured. With the E-C barreling into the
>E-D and the E-D jumping back in time.  Combined with the resultant Klingon
>War, hmmmm......... Could make for a good episode. Gotta think about this.
>Thanx for the idea!

Ahhh... NO... although both of these episodes included some form of 
time travel, these are distinctly *different*.

In "Yesterday's Enterprise":
1) the Enterprise C does NOT collide with the Enterprise D.

2) the Enterprise D does NOT got back in time.

3) the Enterprise C, and it not being at the battle with the
    Romulans at Norendria 3 (or wherever, I know I'm getting this
    one wrong), caused history to be changed.  So the whole point
    of the episode was that the Enterprise C being there had created
    an alternate universe where the Federation and Klingons were at
    war.  Which is a very entertaining interpretation of a current
    theory that worm holes sometimes leads to other universes.

In a sense, the Enterprise C in the heat of battle, created a universe
(via the wormhole, and certainly not intentionally), repaired itself
in the save haven of this alternate universe, and returned to finish   
the fight.  Wow... talk about revolution in milatary tactics.

"Captain, we've lost all weapons, and the shields won't hold much
longer.  The impulse drives have just blown, and warp is out."

"Alright, prepare to create an alternative universe, so we can repair
ourselves.  Engage."

What a concept... ;)
							Sunger

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