Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Funny article on time travel in the Trek universe

As a longtime Trekker, I appreciated this... Tuesday Morning Quarterback, a football columnist for ESPN, gripes about the overuse of time travel in the Star Trek universe, and his guide to Star Trek time travel lists pretty much every way characters have traveled through time on all the shows and movies. Go to this link and scroll about 3/4 of the way down. This is funny, and makes fun of Trek while still being respectful to the beloved franchise.

Anong the examples: Can you point out where these are from?
  • "To travel 78 years into the future, fall into a mysterious naturally occurring band of energy that grants wishes."
  • "To go exactly three days backward in time, 'cold start' the warp engines."
  • "To travel 300 years into the past, follow an enemy starship that is able to open 'time windows.' After destroying the enemy ship, seeming to strand you in the past, return to the future by flying really fast while the captain says something like, 'Now we'd better return to the future.' "
  • "To travel 400 years into Earth's past, fly a spaceship whose engine overheats. To return to the future, fly directly into an atomic bomb test in New Mexico in 1947."

1 comment:

Nonni said...

How long did it take to write this article. I took me 30 minutes to read it!!! Did he tape every single episode of TOST. Voyager (no wonder the captain got a headache whenever "time-travel" was mentioned, TNG, Generations and Deep Space Nine? The most devoted Trekker could not keep all this information in his head. Someone should inform him that this is why it is call FICTION!!!