If the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, then the rotation of the planet should be COUNTER-CLOCKWISE (when looked at from the “north” pole, or top). Nope, the CBS/P “remaster-ers” gave Earth a clockwise spin, which means the sun now rises in the west and sets in the east. Think about it.

For shame, CBS. For shame.

Had to put my two cents in here.

Beaming yourself into yourself, in this situation is rather brilliant.

You gotta remember when this show was made, a mere 60 or so years after people woke up to the idea that Time was relative and Dimension an illusion. It all depends on your perspective.

Which is exactly what the beaming was all about, and that long discussion prior to the event.

In fact Captain Christopher did not beam “into himself” and he “did not forget”, he simply lived out his life in a world in which what he recalled never happened. As did the rest of the Enterprise crew.

This is a short post, so I won’t get out the slide rule, but look at the those old diagrams that were popular in say 1972, and again in 1984 . The ones where velocity and time are at right angles and the speed of light cuts across them diagonally. Gosh it seems so freakin obvious, I feel embarrassed mentioning it.

I just don’t get it though, its been 40 years and I “got it “the very first time.
So you gotta be kidding me right?

This was a brilliant way to step around “all” of the paradoxes.

The answer was as it always was, it was true, it all happened, but everyone was insulated from each others timeline simply by their perspective.

To the Enterprise crew they simply “stepped across a room” not across time, the fact that time was a factor was simply an inconvenience.

To them to be sure, the world from which they came still existed, it always existed how could it not?

But if they weren’t very careful, it could become lost to them and they might never see home again. that was the crux of the dilema.

It seemed to funny, all these years to watch my friends get personally involved and wrapped up in “how could they mess with my world, my time line.. they’re going to destroy the entire universe…” wow, what an ego.. the Enterprise crew had a personal axe to grind with that guy.

The Grandfather paradox.. that’a funny one too.. sure you could kill your Grandfather.. but why? It wouldn’t effect you other than killing a person that represents your Grandfather.. and emotional turmoil aside, he might not appreciate it. But these are merely forced ways of trying to think about the space, time, area we live in as an artificial continuous line of events.. sorry, it don’t work that way. Thinking that way is as logical as following the train of thought of a car salesman.

I think it was an wide open mind, a gifted person who wrote the story in the area of time in which they lived.

- jtw

Doug L.