So if you believe Star Trek, we're going to be able to zip around time in the future

[skygazer]

I've been watching Enterprise, which I enjoy, but its amazing how often Our Heroes go back and forth in time. And there are several alien species who have time travel dialed as well.

It's been the same on all the Star Trek incarnations - temporal distortions and time portals and slingshots around the sun all sending Enterprise here and there in time.

I bet Einstein's eating his heart out that he couldn't come up with something so simple.

[Ptah]

1. If they try to give you a red shirt, run. Run!

:scared:

[zippy890]

2. I love the temporal distortion episodes

my favorites were the ones on Voyager series when they ran into the Time Police, from the future of course - who showed up to to try and stop Janeway from messing with the timelines. Which they usually failed to do.

[skygazer]

4. I love them, too

On one level, they make me laugh because they do it so often. But I think its a fantasy of everyone's to go forward or backward in time so they're fun because they allow you to vicariously experience that.

But they do make my brain tingle sometimes trying to reconcile things like, "well, if I'm here now, how can my older/younger self be here, too....."

:rofl:

[terrya]

3. Time travel is impossible.

But I guess it's fun to speculate.

[qdemn7]

5. Time Travel and Alternate History

Are my all time (pun intended) topics in science fiction.

[SPKrazy]

6. i already do

i'm late again aren't i

:grr:

[skygazer]

7. Okay, I don't know why but that cracked me up

:spray:

:hi:

[baldguy]

8. .

[Yavin4]

9. Um, Kirk Had Sex With A Green Alien Woman

and you people are worried about time travel?? Kirk is a poster child for alien STDs!

[Fire Walk With Me]

12. We're worried about him sending his green alien woman STDs all over time

as well as space.

[MilesColtrane]

13. Kirk pulled more green tail than a peacock. n/t

[pokerfan]

10. 'Trials and Tribulations'

Best Trekkie time travel story since The voyage Home.

I love how they gave a nod to the fans regarding Klingon foreheads. Obviously, the makeup was simply more elaborate than it was in TOS.

So instead of retconning some kind of lame explanation, they simply have Worf saying "its not something we discuss with outsiders." LOL!

As far as time travel goes, we have already demonstrated that one can travel into the future via special relativity.

[YankeyMCC]

11. The question is "If you go back and kill your grandfather...

...will it get ratings?"

;)

I usually don't look forward to the Time Travel stuff, in fact I generally liked Enterprise except for the whole "Temporal Cold War" thing so that was a lot of stuff I didn't like out of a show I 'generally liked' ;)

The Original series had some very well done time travel episodes, "City on the Edge of Forever" and I can't recall the title right now but the one with Mr Atoz where Spock and McCoy are sent to an ice age era of the planet they were on.

[Lethe]

14. this may sound retarded

but i always wondered how fast a thought travels. How fast does it take a neuron to fire, etc? If your thoughts could approach the speed of light, then you could stop time in your mind. (no, i'm not stoned at the moment, thank you)

[Deep13]

19. It's a lot slower than you think.

I don't know the speed, but there is a delay between a stimulus and the sensation.

[Lethe]

15. another thought:

if someone actually does figure out how to travel back in time, in our future, then why haven't we seen anybody come back to our time? Is it that uninteresting?

[Recovered Repug]

16. If someone told you they were from the future,

would you believe them?

[Lethe]

17. shit, maybe?

they would have to satisfy a rigorous period of question and answering.

[Captain Angry]

18. GW Bush is proof that time travel is impossible.

SOMEBODY would have come back and kicked him in the butt.

Nothing bad enough to ruin the future by changing the time line, but just enough to make us all hopeful again.

So, no, there cannot be time travel.