Darth Wong wrote:How can it be "internally consistent" with the effects of "temporal incursions" when we're not entirely sure what those effects are, because they don't really make any sense? The problems inherent in the grandfather's paradox are not limited strictly to the case of killing your own grandfather. Even in the case where you kill someone who is totally unrelated to you, you should not even be able to remember that this person ever existed.
Parallel timelines explain this quite neatly. That cannot be said of the preferred Trekkie explanations of this episode.
I always thought the Krenim Temporal Weapon acted by erasing the target from time, past present and future?
Saying smaller engines are better is like saying you don't want huge muscles because you wouldn't fit through the door. So what? You can bench 500. Fuck doors. - MadCat360
