All the time in the world

As I sit here doing homework, my mind drifts to one thing I never forget, the one thing that helps me whenever I feel lost....














Star Trek






Yes, I'm a nerd, but what's the blog called? You should've expected it. Anyway, as much as I love Star Trek, the one thing they never seem to get right is temporal mechanics or how the time stream works. Example: Commander Sisko (Deep Space 9, Past Tense Pt 1) ends up in the past with 2 other crewmembers, while the rest are stranded in the present. While in the past an important historical figure dies, thus changing the future, and the crewmembers in the present are the ones who see the change and are unaffected by it.
Statement: if the figure died in the past, then the future would have already corrected itself, thus insuring that they would never have existed or happened, unless they fixed what had happened. (which is what happens and the present is saved) in other words, if the issue is corrected, then the future is unaffected, but the future is never saved until the Character fixes it, then the future is corrected and everything is ice cream and candy.
This is a recurring theme in dozens of episodes, and while it does make the episode more exciting, it bothers people like me. (and by people, I mean me) If something happens over the course of a year in the past, the future changes instantly. Time literally happens in a second; for example, if I post this, all of you will prolly have chuckled by now and thought, "nerd" but if I don't, you'll never call me a nerd this one time, and your grandchildren won't go to Harvard. What we do affects the future in infinite ways, even not doing anything affects it.

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