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From: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: "City at the edge of forever"
Message-ID: <400@mmm.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 13-Jan-86 19:55:35 EST
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Posted: Mon Jan 13 19:55:35 1986
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Reply-To: cipher@mmm.UUCP (Andre Guirard)
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In article <1525@ihlpg.UUCP> tainter@ihlpg.UUCP (Tainter) writes:
>>Did anybody ever wandered why when McCoy goes through the portal
>>and Enterprise vanishes, the landing party intelf doesnt disapear?
>
>This is a property which must appear in all time travel into the past...
>The best explanation for this phenomenon is divergent time lines.

Actually, I think area immediately surrounding the Guardian was
"protected" from time-travel-induced changes by a field of some sort.
It would make sense for the designers to have built this sort of thing
in, because otherwise the time portal would have been _very_ difficult
to use.  Actually though, this is a little different from the theory of
time travel appearing in other episodes (such as "Assignment: Earth"
and another whose name I forget) where it appears that whatever you do
while back in time is what already happened anyway...


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