On May 15, 2013, at 10:36 AM, "Onno Meyer" <[email protected]> wrote:
> (Pet peeve: 1632 is time travel, not alternate history.)
Nitpick: it's both. By what little has been stated about the "Ring of Fire"
physics, each such event spawns an alternate history. That is, the time travel
doesn't change the existing timeline; it creates a new one. Not that it
matters in the context of the story, as nobody has the means to deliberately
travel through time.
Or, looking at it another way: the series is much more focused on the
aftereffects of a time travel event and the resulting changes to history than
it is on time travel itself. It would be like calling the soon-to-be-released
"Star Trek: Into Darkness" movie a time travel movie rather than an alternate
(future) history movie because the event that sets it apart from the "Next
Generation" timeline featured time travel.
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