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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9057300" data-attributes="member: 18">Yeah that was such a random and unnecessary writing decision. Like, I was wondering if we'd previous established she was in Vermont in the 21st century, but no, apparently not. I suspect it confirms ideas that originally this episode was set in NYC (esp. as it's about equidistant from Vermont and Toronto). Especially the border crossings - even the 1970s I know people who got busted for crossing the US/Canadian border illegally (my parents among them lol).Fun to see the main lady from Reign pop up as the inevitable Romulan spy (and could be reused in future as a Romulan of course).The watch thing was extremely implausible - I mean, yes, that's how they work, but they only because the beta particles are like, immediately hitting the phosphor. If that "cold fusion" plant was slamming enough beta particles into the atmosphere that it would cause that, well, it seems like that would be a major radiation leak (true radiation experts please correct me if wrong). But it's fine really, because it was at least science-like and they didn't try to make a moral point with it or anything.Talking of moral points they did make one - "Don't kill baby Hitler, you don't know what will happen!", which I largely agree with, I have to say. I'm not sure you'd even prevent the holocaust though you might change its form. Even if you did stop that one, anti-Semitism likely remains socially acceptable worldwide, eugenics continues to be well-regarded as a science/social principle (WW2 damaged it hugely but it kept going due to sheer momentum up into the 1970s), and let's not even get started on all the possible atomic wars you could have in the 1950s and 1960s and so on.It was kind of a slow, talk-y episode, but like, imho that's a good thing. It's good to let characters actually breathe. More talk less action is my Star Trek motto!Re: fish out of water, I appreciated that they played that down, because it's been done so many times by so many shows, including Trek many times.</blockquote>

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