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   From: david@block.net   
      
   On Fri, 22 May 2009 17:57:09 -0700, Tim Bruening   
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   >Kevin Reilly wrote:   
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   >> Spoilers for Star Trek: The Reboot.   
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   >> There are a lot of discussions in these groups regarding methods by which   
   >> Nero could be retroactively prevented from destroying the USS Kelvin and   
   >> changing the course of history. Granted, the 40+ years of Star Trek   
   >> mythology are replete with examples of how this could be achieved, but has   
   >> anyone considered the implications for the citizens of the Federation, or   
   >> indeed the alternate universe as a whole?   
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   >> Nero's arrival was sudden and unexpected, and nobody knew the Narada was   
   >> from the future except for Captain Robau (and possibly some of his crew if   
   >> they were monitoring transmissions) who learned it from Nero just before he   
   >> was killed and his ship destroyed. Nero then took the damaged Narada,   
   >> disappeared and was not seen again *for 25 years*.   
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   >> Only with the arrival of Spock Prime and the destruction of Vulcan a   
   >> quarter century later did anyone learn just what the Narada was, where and   
   >> when it was from, and the fact that it was responsible for the creation of   
   >> an alternate timeline. Even given the possibility of preventing the   
   >> destruction of Vulcan in this new timeline, does it seem morally and   
   >> ethically right to consider erasing the last 25 years of every living being   
   >> in it?   
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   >Harry Kim (Timeless) and Admiral Janeway (Endgame) didn't seem bothered by the   
   >idea of resetting everyone for 15 years (Timeless) and 26 years (Endgame) for   
   >the sake of saving their crew mates.   
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   They were irresponsible idiots.   
      
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