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   From: usenet@calmeilles.co.uk   
      
   On Sun, 24 May 2009 11:33:00 -0700, Tim Bruening   
    wrote:   
      
   > In article ,   
   >  dbd@gatekeeper.vic.com (David DeLaney) wrote:   
   >   
   > > Oh, quite. Note also that various breakthroughs in technology, McGuffins   
   > > (or McGiffens), dei ex machinis, etc., _aren't remembered_ or usable from   
   > > one episode to the next. They're mostly one-offs... which is why TimB's   
   > > repeated suggestions of "use technology #37 from episode 4AQ to solve the   
   > > issues in episode 23-X, it's so SIMPLE, why didn't they SEE it, I've   
   written   
   > > them about it" aren't ever gonna work.   
   >   
   > That's a major oddity in the Star Trek universe(s): The failure of the   
   > heroes to use technologies discovered in one episode in subsequent   
   > episodes.   
      
   Bloody hell.  Haven't we just spent a fortnight talking about Star   
   Trek Alternate Timelines?   
      
   In TOS there is the venerable, founding Gene Roddenberry timeline. The   
   Robert Bloch timeline, the Gene Coon timeline, the Harlan Ellison   
   timeline, the DC Fontana timeline, the Theodore Sturgeon timeline, the   
   Norman Spinrad timeline and perhaps thirty others.  It's a truism of   
   the multiverse that what happens in one universe doesn't necessarily   
   happen in its parallels.   
      
      
   Matthew   
      
      
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