XPost: alt.tv.star-trek.tos, rec.arts.sf.movies, alt.humor.puns   
   XPost: alt.humor   
   From: liam@valentijn.nu   
      
   Tim Bruening wrote:   
   > Wickeddoll wrote:   
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   >> "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!   
   >>>>   
   >>>> 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.   
   >>>   
   >>> 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.   
   >   
   > IMHO, saving a planet from a supernova or a black hole is well worth   
   > the risk!   
      
   But what if, whilst saving the one planet, you cause two other planets to   
   die a couple of centuries later?   
   If changes in the past don't cause an alternate universe and you have only   
   one to work with, mucking about in the past is something that needs careful   
   planning.   
      
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   Wouter Valentijn www.j3v.net   
      
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   Xander: Well maybe that's wrong with the world. Ever think about that?   
      
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