From: raistlin@wixer.cactus.org (Eli Boaz)
Subject: Re: more thoughts on TA1 (possible spoilers!)
Organization: Real/Time Communications
Date: Thu, 13 Aug 92 07:39:46 GMT

In article <BsvvsF.Bq8@acsu.buffalo.edu> v130qh57@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu (sandra guzdek) writes:
>
>possible spoilers for Time's Arrow pt. 1 (TA1), so:
> 
>hey there, i've only recently begun to read the .misc section of the r.a.s. 
>hierarchy, but i know that TA1 was hashed to death and beyond on the .current 
>section. but last night while i was about to fall asleep -- you know, that 
>state when everything seems so obvious and when you wake up the next morning 
>you often can't remember it -- i was thinking of a story someone told me about 
>in high school. i never read it, but a friend did; if anybody knows who wrote 
>it and its title, i'd be much obliged, BTW. its about a peaceful utopia, and a 
>bunch of people travel back to the prehistoric past, and are told whatever 
>they do, they must not step off of the ship they are on. well, someone does, 
>and steps on a butterfly. when they return to their own time, it is no longer 
>a utopian society, but a dictatorship. history was changed because of the 
>death of the butterfly. (hey, my memory isn't perfect.)

Ray Bradbury wrote this, if anyone is intrested I can poke around my R.B.
collection to see if I can find it (for the title; I know it's a short
story).

>what does this have to do with TA, you ask? well as far as i can tell, this 
>episode is the first TNG ep to involve real time travel, going back in history.
>Time loops, time bubbles and even Yesterday's Enterprise can be discounted 
>because everything was restored to its "original" form in the end.i mean going 
>back into the past and trying to correct something that might already be 
>"right."  (sorry, just read _Imzadi_) (and please don't write and tell me, 
>"oh, but in so-and-so episode they went into the past...")
>
>i wonder, does the history of the enterprise as we know it contingent on the 
>aliens messing up with 19th century san fran? what i'm saying is, if the crew 
>of the enterprise stop the aliens from succeeding, will it alter the reality 
>of TNG as we know it? will the away team come back to find BIG BIG changes?

Only time will tell. (Pun intended!) Although, we're lucky its a short
period of time.

>what i'm saying here is there is a big opportunity for change that can be 
>easily justified (alternate time line stuff). for instance, maybe if the 
>aliens are stopped from succeeding, and therefore the past is changed:
>
>	-maybe data will have "normal" skin colour (less makeup)
>	-jack crusher never died
>	-picard will come back to a wife and kids ???
>	-maybe worf will be half-klingon or even just an aggressive human 
>	raised by klingons (reversal of his "real" history (less makeup))

These are intresting suggestions... Again, we'll see.  Although I don't
believe that most viewers will like a drastic change like these...

>	-no wesley exists??? :)

Well, I _almost_ like Wheaton's character as it is...  Besides, its too
much of a change for the show.

>sorry for rambling, this is a mind who has been at work all day and thinking 
>about this WAY TOO MUCH.... 
>
>does anyone else have any thoughts on this?

ttyl,

>  +                                  +                                       +
>   sandra guzdek + username: v130qh57@ubvmsb.cc.buffalo.edu + til 28 Aug 1992 
>       6037 Devlin Avenue + Niagara Falls, NY + 14304 + after 28 Aug 1992 
>    "Higher emotions are what separate us from the lower orders of life... 
>                  Higher emotions, and table manners."
>                       --- Deanna Troi, _Imzadi_


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