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   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Howard Brazee wrote:   
   > On Sat, 23 May 2009 00:04:57 -0700 (PDT), Michael Grosberg   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >> There's no need for a moral argument. The time travel paradigm used   
   >> in the new Star Trek movie is that of a splitting timeline: when you   
   >> jump back in time and cause a change, you split the timeline in two.   
   >> The Kelvin and Vulcan were destroyed but both still exist in the   
   >> original timeline - it was not "erased". If you go back and attempt   
   >> to destroy the Narada before it does anything you'll only create   
   >> another split ad there will be three timelines. It won't help the   
   >> people who already live in the new timeline where Vulcan and the   
   >> Kelvin were destroyed.   
   >   
   > It must have taken a lot of energy to create a second universe.   
      
   Unless energy was already there and just given form.   
   Or maybe that entire universe was already there and they (Spock Prime and   
   Nero & Co.) just relocated to it.   
      
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