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<blockquote data-quote="Dannager" data-source="post: 6101012" data-attributes="member: 73683"><p>That's because Back to the Future employed single-timeline time travel. There was only one timeline, and whether you moved forward or backward you had to deal with any changes made to it.</p><p></p><p>Star Trek does not use single-timeline time travel. It uses alternate timelines/parallel universes. When Spock and the Romulans traveled through the time wormhole, they emerged in an alternate timeline identical to their own. They then <em>changed</em> that alternate timeline by virtue of simply being there (and also by blowing up George Kirk's ship). There were no effects on Original Spock or the Romulans because they weren't changing their own timeline; they were altering a new one.</p><p></p><p>Spock explains this explicitly <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMK0qLVt0UU" target="_blank">at one point during the movie</a>. It's pretty run-of-the-mill sci-fi stuff, and Star Trek <em><strong>certainly</strong></em> isn't the first sci-fi series to employ it. Heck, it's not even the first time <em><strong>Star Trek</strong></em> has employed it (The Original Series, Deep Space 9, and Enterprise have all featured storylines involving an alternate timeline/parallel universe).</p><p></p><p>From <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_%28fiction%29#Films" target="_blank">Wikipedia's entry</a> on parallel universes:</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The question, then, is why don't you know this? It's curious that you were paying such close attention that you're able to catalogue endless plot holes (or what you imagine to be plot holes) but missed the completely cogent explanation for the one you identify as the biggest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dannager, post: 6101012, member: 73683"] That's because Back to the Future employed single-timeline time travel. There was only one timeline, and whether you moved forward or backward you had to deal with any changes made to it. Star Trek does not use single-timeline time travel. It uses alternate timelines/parallel universes. When Spock and the Romulans traveled through the time wormhole, they emerged in an alternate timeline identical to their own. They then [I]changed[/I] that alternate timeline by virtue of simply being there (and also by blowing up George Kirk's ship). There were no effects on Original Spock or the Romulans because they weren't changing their own timeline; they were altering a new one. Spock explains this explicitly [URL="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMK0qLVt0UU"]at one point during the movie[/URL]. It's pretty run-of-the-mill sci-fi stuff, and Star Trek [I][B]certainly[/B][/I] isn't the first sci-fi series to employ it. Heck, it's not even the first time [I][B]Star Trek[/B][/I] has employed it (The Original Series, Deep Space 9, and Enterprise have all featured storylines involving an alternate timeline/parallel universe). From [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parallel_universe_%28fiction%29#Films"]Wikipedia's entry[/URL] on parallel universes: The question, then, is why don't you know this? It's curious that you were paying such close attention that you're able to catalogue endless plot holes (or what you imagine to be plot holes) but missed the completely cogent explanation for the one you identify as the biggest. [/QUOTE]
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