Re: Time travel = huge Can of worms
Tim Bruening
Advance Scout wrote:
> First of all I liked the movie ... But seems to me we have a huge can of
> worms now that JJ has done a reboot using time travel.
>
> Spock is racing to the star thats about to go nova to inject the red
> matter to stop it... but gets there TOO LATE (caps on purpose). He has
> been sucked into the black hole and goes back in time where the timeline
> gets changed basically due to the butterfly effect. I can buy that.
>
> BUT... end of movie he says my planet has been destroyed (butterfly
> effect) so I will help rebuild the vulcan civilization. UHMMM... Spock
> how many times have you time traveled before (in both directions) in TOS
> and movies?. Seems to me that Spock can (with a borrowed ship)
> slingshot around the sun (or use any other method) to return to the
> future but gets there one day early, NOT TOO LATE, eject the red matter
> into the sun and voila... romulus doesnt blow up, Nero doesnt get sucked
> into a black hole, original reality restored.
Sadly, its not that simple. A new reality has been created, so Spock can't
save Vulcan by saving Romulus. He will have to go directly back in time to
shortly before Nero attacks Vulcan to have any hope of saving Vulcan.
Quadibloc
> Sadly, its not that simple. A new reality has been created, so Spock can't
> save Vulcan by saving Romulus. He will have to go directly back in time to
> shortly before Nero attacks Vulcan to have any hope of saving Vulcan.
Also, while Vulcan is perfectly safe in Spock's old reality, unless it
ceased to exist, with only one timeline being real, people who live in
alternate timelines are people too!
Congratulations to Spock for recognizing this; but it is too bad that
he won't get to be the man who saved Romulus. I guess that since the
Federation is now without any good enemies, we won't see any more
movies in their reality, which is unfortunate for Kate Mulgrew.
John Savard