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   From: not@chance.dude   
      
   "Tim Bruening"   
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   > Kevin Reilly wrote:   
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   >> > I have figured out what Spock should have done:  Romulus was threatened   
   >> > by a supernova.  Old Spock sought to save Romulus by generating a black   
   >> > hole (using a black hole machine stolen from the Vulcan Science   
   >> > Academy)   
   >> > to absorb the star, but was a smidge late in arriving on the scence.   
   >> > AT   
   >> > THAT point (before doing anything else), Old Spock should have simply   
   >> > rushed to the nearest intact star, whipped around it at Warp 8 to go   
   >> > back in time a few days or weeks, then black holed the culprit star   
   >> > BEFORE it went supernova!  This would have saved Romulus and not   
   >> > generated an alternate timeline!   
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   >> What you've 'figured out' was pretty much implicit in your other postings   
   >> and the follow-ups to them, but you're absolutely right. That is the way   
   >> Spock could have saved Romulus and negated the plot line of (new) Star   
   >> Trek.   
   >>   
   >> Now here's an interesting exercise. Go back and watch every episode of   
   >> TOS,   
   >> TAS, TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, and the movies prior to this one,   
   >> with the possible exception of IV. For each episode or movie, every time   
   >> there's a death, or something blows up, or something threatens the   
   >> galaxy,   
   >> figure out which character should use the warp-around-a-star method to   
   >> undo   
   >> what's happened, how much he or she should undo, and what the resultant   
   >> outcome will be. Write each scenario down in a little essay.   
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   > Picard, Sisko, and Janeway might not have been informed of the warp around   
   > a sun   
   > method for reason of temporal security, and Archer would not know of it,   
   > since   
   > its after his time!   
      
   Don't you remember the hissy-fit Bones had about how dangerous that was?   
   That may be why it's not standard procedure.   
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   > If Worf knew, he would be the one to go back in time to save his mate   
   > (Reunion).   
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   Yup - and nobody else.   
      
   Natalie   
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