"I did that in highschool..."

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 6:08 am

In the season finale (or opener) for Season 1 (or two I forget) Archer is taken into the future and his way to get into the past is destroyed. His friend tells him that he made a temporal communicator in highschool...
This make anyone else wonder at the responsibility of the future Federation? I know a very few High schoolers I'd trust with that knowledge.

Crushproof · Post by **Crushproof** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:02 pm

that part of the episode was pretty ridiculous anyway. That's like one me saying I learned how to make a HD TV from an 8 track player in secondary school.

Post by **Teaos** » Tue Jul 31, 2007 12:07 pm

The idea of time manipulation is such a mind screw that its almost pointless to think about since they could come up with a million reasons why it wouldnt matter.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Wed Aug 01, 2007 1:51 pm

Time travel of any type just hurts my head. The best thing to do is not think about it.

stormturmoil · Post by **stormturmoil** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 7:27 pm

This is why I think Voyager had the right attitude to time travel:

Janeway: What are you doing about Braxton?

Temporal agent: We've already got three of him in the brig

Janeway: this is why I hate temporal mechanics. Let's get out of here before my headache gets any worse...

RK_Striker_JK_5 · Post by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Fri Aug 24, 2007 8:06 pm

Yeah. Time travel's not something you can get non-chalant about... or even wrap your mind around it, no matter how many times you go through it.

Post by **Teaos** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 12:34 am

I wouldn't say Voyager handled time travel well. Look at all the problems they caused.

Monroe · Post by **Monroe** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:13 pm

That's true. Admiral Janeway broke a few rules.

Transphasic Torpedoes seem like they come from more than just 20 years or so into the future. Wonder if she went into the future got them then went back into the past.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 4:39 pm

Personally I like to think of time travel as going into an alternate, but very similar, universe. Nearly everything is the same. This explains how you can muck about in the future or the past yet have nearly no reprucusions like they should have.
Just my thought.

Post by **Captain Seafort** » Sat Aug 25, 2007 5:30 pm

Rochey wrote:Personally I like to think of time travel as going into an alternate, but very similar, universe. Nearly everything is the same. This explains how you can muck about in the future or the past yet have nearly no reprucusions like they should have.
Just my thought.

It also explains how destroying the equipment responsible for the changes causes the timeline to revert to normal (Year of Hell, Shockwave)

Post by **Teaos** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:32 pm

Time travel is so hard to talk about because there is no rule the writers go by thus there is no way for us to define it as just one thing.

Post by **Mikey** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:52 pm

I have to agree with Duglas Adams - I think the trickiest part of time travel is the grammar involved.

sunnyside · Post by **sunnyside** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:35 pm

Personally, while as a gimick once and a while time travel can be fun, I generally really dislike it. Totally killed Enterprise for me. Which is too bad because I'd liked it.

As for what they teach in high school I can actually see that. I mean I knew the basics of making an atomic weapon back in high school. And I remember people making crystal radios out of a rock and some other assorted stuff.

Sionnach Glic · Post by **Sionnach Glic** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 7:45 pm

As for what they teach in high school I can actually see that. I mean I knew the basics of making an atomic weapon back in high school.

What class did you take!?

Post by **Mikey** » Tue Sep 04, 2007 8:45 pm

As for what they teach in high school I can actually see that. I mean I knew the basics of making an atomic weapon back in high school. And I remember people making crystal radios out of a rock and some other assorted stuff.

Wow - I thought my high school was pretty advanced - I mean, I was doing chip design and things like that, and I learned the basic structure and function of the two types of a-bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, but we sure didn't get lessons on how to construct one!

The fact is, sure - I made a crystal radio in sixth grade. But that is NOT analagous to a piece of tech from sometime well in the future - and jury-rigging it to boot!