So Tone...who's winning????

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Only if they act on what they experienced. I think they'd be smart enough to avoid that. But knowing that there would be a Federation of Planets (and peace with Spectra?) could encourage them in their fight. They know the result, and it gives them heart in the darker times that come.

In one of the original series episodes, Spock says that Captain Christopher could use what he saw to manipulate key stocks and industries. That would only work if Christopher knew which ones to manipulate. He'd have to know that ABC Widgets would be important in the future (even if it was little more than a garage operation in his time), or that it would become Alpha Beta Gamma Doohickeys by the year 2130. Otherwise, he could change things by buying the wrong stocks or getting involved in the wrong industries.

(Right now, time travel probably takes more energy than we can generate, even if we knew how to do it.)

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Becky, from what I've read of your story, what I remember of Enterprise (my weakest area of the Star Trek universe), and from other stories and movies that I've seen with time travel, it's far more likely for someone going to the past from the future to muck things up, than someone from the past going to the future and back; unless they were to do it intentionally.

I'm just wondering if you are going to send them back through the wormhole or if the Enterprise is going to have to escort them back to Earth's solar system. I really wonder if Tiny is as good a pilot as Sulu: can he sling shot the phoenix around the sun for time warp?

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I would believe the Enterprise crew would have to be careful what they told G-Force about the ending of the war with Spectra, just incase they were able to return, for fear of changing the future, hence Enterprise's time.

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Watching `Noein` taught me one thing;

Babysitting a 12 year old version of yourself is not nice for both parties.

Also Deloreans (Would you belive I was offered one once??) make lousy time machines since they only ever take you back to an uncool time.

And water running off the gullwing doors will get you mucky. Why do you think so few cars have doors that open that way even though it looks cool on a dry day?

Two time travel stories.

`Nightwatch` by Mr Pratchett, (his best ever IMHO) in which he gets over the paradox problem in an ingenious way.

`Legion of Time` by Jack wiliamson, One of the finest pulps ever written, in which he introduces the concept of the Jonbar Hinge. (look it up in wiki)

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