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Subject: Re: Let's not forget TV poetic license, - (nf)
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hp-pcd!john    Jun 22 08:57:00 1983

Most Sci-Fi that deals with time travel runs into the problem of what happens
if you go back and kill your ancestors. Issac Asimov did a story called "The
End of Eternity" where you could go back and totally wreck your own past, but
if you were inside a "time field" when the change occured then you would not
be affected. This made it difficult for time travlers to visit home because 
chances are their parents never existed. Im sure a similar effect could be 
possible in Star Trek.



John Eaton   hplabs!hp-pcd!john