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   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Tim Bruening wrote:   
   > Kevin Reilly wrote:   
   >   
   >> This is why the Narada situation is unique and pretty much   
   >> unsolvable. If someone goes back using almost any of the established   
   >> Star Trek time travel techniques they will be  *changing* the   
   >> history of the second timeline, with all of the ethical   
   >> implications. On the other hand if they use the Red Matter method --   
   >> assuming it's even possible to fine tune it in such a way -- they   
   >> will be creating a third reality that's almost but not quite exactly   
   >> like the Prime reality, while leaving the second reality intact with   
   >> a smoking hole where Vulcan used to be.   
   >>   
   >> Either way it's ultimately futile. You either can't save the   
   >> inhabitants of 'alternate' Vulcan, or you can only do so by   
   >> destroying 25 years of galactic history. IMO that's just too great a   
   >> price to pay.   
   >   
   > What we and Old Spock need is a cloaked ship with a super duper   
   > transporter capable of beaming up 6 billion Vulcans and at least one   
   > human (Amanda) in the nick of time.  Might Scotty be capable of   
   > designing such a transporter?   
      
   That reminds me of the story of one of the old Gold Key comics. :-)   
   Not only an entire population, but also an entire planet was beamed into   
   some pattern into a storage device to be relocated elsewhere.   
      
      
   --   
   Wouter Valentijn www.j3v.net   
      
   Buffy: This is the Initiative Xander.  Military guys and scientists do not   
   make out with each other.   
   Xander: Well maybe that's wrong with the world. Ever think about that?   
      
   'Buffy the Vampire Slayer 4x14: Goodbye Iowa'   
      
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