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<blockquote data-quote="tsadkiel" data-source="post: 2330256" data-attributes="member: 262">Beast, geeking out.&quot;There was a television show in my timeline called Star Trek, about the adventures of the intrepid Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise.&nbsp; In one episode, the ship's doctor, a fellow with the improbable name of McCoy, is given an accidental drug overdose, has a psychotic break, and runs through a temporal portal, inadvertantly leading to a timeline where the Nazis won World War II and took over the world.Kirk and his first officer follow through the portal in order to fix things, and find themselves in the Great Depression.&nbsp; They're helped by a lovely, idealistic social worker named Edith Keeler, and Kirk falls in love.&nbsp; Unfortuantely, it turns out that Keeler is the point of divergence; she is supposed to die ina&nbsp; car crash, but McCoy will have saved her, leaving her alive to start a burgeoning pacifist movement which delays America's entrance into the war, giving the Nazis time to develop the Atomic Bomb, and . . . well, you get the picture.In the end, the moment of truth arrives, Kirk stops McCoy, and Keeler is struck by a car and dies.&nbsp; The future is preserved, but through picking the right moment to act or not act, rather than simply bludgeoning her to death with a crowbar.&nbsp; We're flailing blindly here.&nbsp; If we go with Sandra's plan, I can't think of a single scenario in which Steve Rogers will stand aside and let a band of superpowered lunatics from the future take out Bucky Barnes, so we'll have to deal with him too.&nbsp; There will be a right moment to act and a right thing to do.&nbsp; I only hope one of us will realise what it is.&nbsp; And like Kirk, there will be a price to pay.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="tsadkiel, post: 2330256, member: 262"] [b]Beast, geeking out.[/b] "There was a television show in my timeline called [i]Star Trek[/i], about the adventures of the intrepid Captain Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise. In one episode, the ship's doctor, a fellow with the improbable name of McCoy, is given an accidental drug overdose, has a psychotic break, and runs through a temporal portal, inadvertantly leading to a timeline where the Nazis won World War II and took over the world. Kirk and his first officer follow through the portal in order to fix things, and find themselves in the Great Depression. They're helped by a lovely, idealistic social worker named Edith Keeler, and Kirk falls in love. Unfortuantely, it turns out that Keeler is the point of divergence; she is supposed to die ina car crash, but McCoy will have saved her, leaving her alive to start a burgeoning pacifist movement which delays America's entrance into the war, giving the Nazis time to develop the Atomic Bomb, and . . . well, you get the picture. In the end, the moment of truth arrives, Kirk stops McCoy, and Keeler is struck by a car and dies. The future is preserved, but through picking the right moment to act or not act, rather than simply bludgeoning her to death with a crowbar. We're flailing blindly here. If we go with Sandra's plan, I can't think of a single scenario in which Steve Rogers will stand aside and let a band of superpowered lunatics from the future take out Bucky Barnes, so we'll have to deal with him too. There will be a right moment to act and a right thing to do. I only hope one of us will realise what it is. And like Kirk, there will be a price to pay." [/QUOTE]

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