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**expabsPapsgag** · 10-05-2009, 11:41 PM

MORE SPOILER TALK!

Taking a moment to go all geeky, I don't see how this is an alternate time line rather than a complete destruction of the original one.

If it is not complete destruction of the original one, then why were Picard and Co, so desperate to "correct" what the Borg had done in First contact. If all they are doing is creating an alternate universe, then this would not affect Picards Federation at all.

Likewise in the Guardian of forever episode of TOS, McCoy's saving of Edith Keeler completely destroys Kirks original timeline and has to be corrected.

The times it has been shown that travelling to the past and altering it, directly affects the timeline of the time traveller in the Star Trek universe are numerous.

Which means that the original Enterprise, Ds9, Picard........ They are all Gone!

According to Quantum Theory and the Multiverse Theorem, there are ALWAYS an infinite number of alternate universes at any given time. Each possible outcome of any given situation creates a new universe that branches off the old one.

So, an event could happen in one timeline to change the future/past (assuming that time travel, etc, could be possible), but it would only apply to that particular forward-moving multiverse. There would still be other parallel multiverses where that event didn't even happen.

10-05-2009, 11:41 PM	#12
expabsPapsgag Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 359 Senior Member	MORE SPOILER TALK! Taking a moment to go all geeky, I don't see how this is an alternate time line rather than a complete destruction of the original one. If it is not complete destruction of the original one, then why were Picard and Co, so desperate to "correct" what the Borg had done in First contact. If all they are doing is creating an alternate universe, then this would not affect Picards Federation at all. Likewise in the Guardian of forever episode of TOS, McCoy's saving of Edith Keeler completely destroys Kirks original timeline and has to be corrected. The times it has been shown that travelling to the past and altering it, directly affects the timeline of the time traveller in the Star Trek universe are numerous. Which means that the original Enterprise, Ds9, Picard........ They are all *Gone*! According to Quantum Theory and the Multiverse Theorem, there are ALWAYS an infinite number of alternate universes at any given time. Each possible outcome of any given situation creates a new universe that branches off the old one. So, an event could happen in one timeline to change the future/past (assuming that time travel, etc, could be possible), but it would only apply to that particular forward-moving multiverse. There would still be other parallel multiverses where that event didn't even happen.
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