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<blockquote data-quote="MarkB" data-source="post: 7610986" data-attributes="member: 40176"><p>That is explained in-universe. Scotty eventually manages to create a transporter equation that will allow transporters to be used across vast distances, and in/out of warp drive. This was in the far future, probably after the end of DS9.</p><p></p><p>Spock then takes that knowledge back in time to the Kelvin timeline, and is able to use it to modify a transporter there. It subsequently falls into Khan's hands via Section 31, and he uses it (perhaps further modified through his intellect) for even longer-range transport.</p><p></p><p></p><p>No, those paradoxes are par for the course in Star Trek time travel. In <em>City on the Edge of Forever</em> McCoy goes back in time and changes the timeline so that humanity never went to the stars. It doesn't matter that McCoy in the new timeline had no way of ever reaching the Guardian of Forever in order to go back in time, or even that he may never have existed, because he's not the McCoy who went back in time.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I mean, logically, Picard and everyone in the later series wouldn't exist in recognisable form. Chaos theory would dictate that anyone conceived after the timeline was changed would have the circumstances of their conception altered in minor or major ways, leading to them at best being replaced by what are genetically their twin or non-twin siblings.</p><p></p><p>But hey, that's not how time travel in fiction generally works, so sure, there may be an alt-history Picard in a rather different looking universe who had some rather different experiences than ours did. But do you think that's really the Picard they want to write about?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MarkB, post: 7610986, member: 40176"] That is explained in-universe. Scotty eventually manages to create a transporter equation that will allow transporters to be used across vast distances, and in/out of warp drive. This was in the far future, probably after the end of DS9. Spock then takes that knowledge back in time to the Kelvin timeline, and is able to use it to modify a transporter there. It subsequently falls into Khan's hands via Section 31, and he uses it (perhaps further modified through his intellect) for even longer-range transport. No, those paradoxes are par for the course in Star Trek time travel. In [i]City on the Edge of Forever[/i] McCoy goes back in time and changes the timeline so that humanity never went to the stars. It doesn't matter that McCoy in the new timeline had no way of ever reaching the Guardian of Forever in order to go back in time, or even that he may never have existed, because he's not the McCoy who went back in time. I mean, logically, Picard and everyone in the later series wouldn't exist in recognisable form. Chaos theory would dictate that anyone conceived after the timeline was changed would have the circumstances of their conception altered in minor or major ways, leading to them at best being replaced by what are genetically their twin or non-twin siblings. But hey, that's not how time travel in fiction generally works, so sure, there may be an alt-history Picard in a rather different looking universe who had some rather different experiences than ours did. But do you think that's really the Picard they want to write about? [/QUOTE]
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