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From: swc@cbsck.UUCP (Scott W. Collins)
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Subject: Re: COTEOF
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Date: Wed, 29-Jan-86 15:45:27 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan 29 15:45:27 1986
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PLEASE!  It is COTEOF, not CATEOF  ("on", not "at")...

If the first recording done by Spock ended when McCoy went through,
it would have ended prior to Edith's salvation from death, hence
it would not have recorded it (for either type of outcome).

If the first recording ended upon the saving of Edith's life,
then it would have recorded the saving and not a traffic fatality.

So, when would the fatality outcome have been recorded into the tricorder?

My guess is that prior to Spock and Kirk entering through, there were
two parallel pasts simultaneously "running": the original one and the
one that McCoy created.  Both were played by the Guardian as they both
happened(?), but only one would be active on the stack (:-) and hence
that is the one that Kirk and Spock experienced.  Still, Spock had
both in his tricorder.  Had someone else been recording after THEY
entered, a third history would have been recorded: (1) The original
with Edith being killed on her own, (2) the one where McCoy only
went back to the past and saved Edith, and (3) the one where all three
were there and Edith died due to Kirk preventing McCoy from saving her.

However, since they were gone "only a moment", they wouldn't have had time
to view the recording (er, if they had the ships computers).

Whew!  It's like trying to figure out "Somewhere in Time" with Christopher
Reeve and Jane Seymour (sp?):  did Chris go back in time because he was
there in a previous life or because he had traveled back in time....??(huh?)
(I'm not cut out for recursive thinking; especially if there is no
end-condition or starting point...).

Scott W. Collins