ColonelHardisson
What? Me Worry?
Yeah, my dislike of time travel stories is really in how Trek has previously handled them. TOS did have a few really good examples of how to do them so they aren't annoying, though, so let's discuss the series that followed. TNG set the theme, with I don't know how many episodes where the time travel device was used simply to screw around with the conventions of the series, but then to be able to pull the old switcheroo at the end and bring everything back to the status quo. Given that watching television is a time-wasting pursuit in the first place, to further waste it by watching a story that won't even impact upon the characters or setting seems too much to me.
To me, the paragon of time travel used correctly as a story device is found in Babylon 5. Everytime it was used, it created a huge impact, and what was wrought by way of time travel most often ended up as a recurring theme throughout the rest of the series - take Londo as the Centauri Emperor as an example, and how actions from other episodes, both those that dealt with time travel and those that did not, impacted upon him and the other characters. This is a far cry from how more recent Trek series have dealt with time travel. The last episode of Voyager and now Enterprise seem to be changing that, though, and good for them.
To me, the paragon of time travel used correctly as a story device is found in Babylon 5. Everytime it was used, it created a huge impact, and what was wrought by way of time travel most often ended up as a recurring theme throughout the rest of the series - take Londo as the Centauri Emperor as an example, and how actions from other episodes, both those that dealt with time travel and those that did not, impacted upon him and the other characters. This is a far cry from how more recent Trek series have dealt with time travel. The last episode of Voyager and now Enterprise seem to be changing that, though, and good for them.
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