Okay, #Trekkie CoSo. 🖖 It's #SNW time!
Today for #OnlySky, we talk about Strange New Worlds' time travel episode, which takes place more or less now in Canuckistan 🍁, and raises the classic Would You Kill Baby Hitler question around La'an's past.
Does it work? Does *any* time travel episode in #StarTrek? What does this #SFF trope actually do - and does the romance help or hinder?
Come for the morality play! Stay for the poutine & Carol Kane!
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https://onlysky.media/mclark/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-how-time-travel-creeps-into-trek-today/
@MLClark I'm glad someone else picked up on the "Would you kill baby Hitler" trope.
I'm glad the time travel went somewhere else other then Los Angeles for a change. Of course, they're filming in Toronto ... The early intent was to pass off Toronto as New York City, but then they decided to just call it Toronto.
Time travel episodes by definition make no sense, unless it's to "close the loop" and fulfill what was intended to happen.
Exactly that, Stephen. I talk about the contrived nature of the trope in the article. Even shows like DEVS, which *expressly* acknowledge infinite time streams, still ultimately have to contrive reasons we should care about certain timelines in particular.
It's a problem that attests to human limits to fully understanding what life in a multiverse would entail--let alone to building a coherent ethics from that view of reality. We are small, fleeting critters in a big, big cosmos.
