Time Trip - questions and answers (How widely accepted is the theory that we can travel in time?)

BBC ^ | Friday, December 26, 2003 | BBC

[ffusco]

Nothing beats the cold war Trek. No counselors on board, no PC crap, no huge moral dilemmas at every turn.

[Gone_Postal]

I already posted this article tomorrow.
LOL and I've already read it...

my time machine must be stuck I keep seeing the same thing over and over again.
maybe if I kick it......wait I just did that ........oh no I'm stuck in the middle

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Nothing beats the cold war Trek. No counselors on board, no PC crap, no huge moral dilemmas at every turn.

And the stories and acting were excellent.

[Elendil]

The Law of conservation of mass and energy has not been broken...on a universal level energy and mass are neither created nor destroyed...you may have moved it about, but you have not created anything...

[7thson]

Dean Koontz wrote a novel some years back called LIGHTNING. Basically, the story was that the NAZIs discovered time travel. But due to certain unknown laws, you could travel back in time but only forward. One of the scientists that enabled the project to work, travels forward to ensure the survivial at different times of a certain female. Interesting concept.

[truthandjustice1]

"Anybody heard where Paul Lezaro is?"

He's scheduled to be in Philadelphia for the Packers game.

[7thson]

This is such a cool thread. So many possibilities from so many stories that we have read and seen.

The Back To The Future movies were great. It discussed alternate time lines, alternate worlds. The Terminator, which at first seemed like just an action flick, was actually a great science fiction story discussing time travel. The Quantam Leap television series was very good and often poignant. I remember reading a sci-fi story - I believe by Joseph W. Campbell - that discussed looking into time. But the further ahead you looked the blurrier it got because of the different things that could happen from simple yes/no decisions. I read another sci-fi story years ago called Night Eyes. It seemed to be about alien abductions but what it turned out to be was that the 'aliens' were actually humans from the far future. They 'abducted' people from the same family line in order to stop an event that evolved them into the 'grays.' Does anyone remember the television program The Time Travelers from the sixties?

[Hemingway's Ghost]

Interesting post bump to the top.

[7thson]

As long as we are talking about time travel, who remembers the Fantastic Four. Remember in the beginning of the comic, Doctor Doom invented a time machine. Then, in a later issue, he met the Emporer Kang. Kang explained to him that in the far future, he discovered a time machine in the ruins of a building that belonged to an ancestor of his from the past. Kang and Doom always thought they were either one and the same or related. This theory went on for several years until John Byrne did an excellent story concerning Reed Richards and his dad. He stated that he was missing parts of his memory after an encounter with some being and he and his family went to his dad's old place. Where they discovered a time machine that his dad invented years before Doom invented his. They went into a alternate future where Reed's dad was the ruler but basically being led by the nose of a power hungry wife. When they cleared all that up and went back to their past, the story continued with many centuries later, the future relative of Reed's dad in that alternate future discovers the time machine that Reed's dad invented and used it to become Kang. So, instead of Kang being connected to Doctor Doom, he is actually future kin of Reed Richards.

[-YYZ-]

"And the stories and acting were excellent"

Almost as good as the special effects? :)

The big styrofoam rocks and other shortcomings, and the sorta old-fashioned look of old Trek used to bother me, although I loved it when I was younger, after getting used to the polished look of ST:TNG. Now when I watch the old trek, though, there just seems to be something much more "raw" about it. Maybe it's just because it's been so long since I've seen a lot of the old episodes, and I've seen too many of the ST:TNG episodes too many times.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Does anyone remember the television program The Time Travelers from the sixties?

There was also another one I remember... The Time Tunnel. What a great show that was, but it was only on a year or so. And I believe Lost in Space did a time travel episode or two.

There's something about those old 60's shows that are unlike anything ever done since.

[Reaganwuzthebest]

Now when I watch the old trek, though, there just seems to be something much more "raw" about it. Maybe it's just because it's been so long since I've seen a lot of the old episodes, and I've seen too many of the ST:TNG episodes too many times.

Have to agree with you there, the special effects were cheesy, even for the late 60s making the show dated. But that's what almost draws me to it more than anything, the simplicity of it combined with well-written stories.

The sci-fi shows of today have gone too far the other way for my tastes and now it's spectacular effects with boring, recycled scripts.