Friday, April 17, 2015

Time Travel And "The City On The Edge Of Forever?"

Please write a critique of The City On The Edge Of Forever using the Traveling Through Time and/or Carl Sagan Ponders Time Travel articles. Challenge at least one idea within your notes that the article seems to debunk or challenge. Please defend your response and use quotations to support. This blog response is due by 2:30p.m. on Fri., April 24th.

15 comments:

  1. Just because he stopped one person from avoiding death, doesn't mean they had no influence on the past. This leads me to believe they just assumed that minor details can't snowball which bugs me.

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  2. The City On The Edge Of Forever relates with the idea that anything that happens in the past can alter or change the future. The past is in an equal time loop with the , therefore anything, the slightest little change to the past in general or even someones specific past can have a dramatic affect on the future.

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  3. I feel that although they managed to reset what happened i feel that in reality everything else they did would have been alterations to how there lifes came to be.

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  4. The theories of time travel have always fascinated me. And watching this Star Trek episode only helped to increase my love for it. I have watched Star Trek for years and love all of the Sci-Fi elements that are in them. But with time travel, comes the temptation to change the future. And this is what we see Jim struggle with in this episode. It doesn't seem like saving one person's life can make that much of a difference, but in the long run, it can. Jim struggles with his own knowledge of what is right and his heart that is telling him to throw aside knowledge and save the woman he has come to love. And this is a warning for time travel above all, because while we say we wouldn't change anything, we can't know that until faced with the option

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  5. After reading Carl Seagan's article all about time travel I think it is similiar to Star Trek because it is both in the future and time travel. In Star Trek to get to the past they had to let Edith die to find what they were looking for.

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  6. This movie dealt with time travel which is all a theoretical study. Hawking has theories that their are multiple parallel universes that are affected by the multiple possibilities of time. This film addresses that theory because the life of one person can affect the course of history. Also in the story the many ripples that the voyage caused in time were disregarded and seemed not to impact the future. examples of these ripples are the strange clothing,the way all the crew members talk, and the disappearance of the homeless man. If time is so sensitive I believe these changes would have affected the future in unforeseen ways.

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  7. The writers did not believe the original writing of the script was “not Star Trek”, because Kirk planned to sacrifice his crew to be with Edith. I agree with the decision that they made, because love is very important,but not as important when you have so many more lives in their hands. The actual issue though with him having Edith die, is that it could actually turn out to have a different effect. I think that the people should have given more thought to their scientific time travel idea.

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  8. I overall really enjoyed this film, as I think it is an accurate and interesting representation of time travel. The crew had to prevent a paradox from happening, which makes perfect sense due to the effects it can have. The only thing that doesn't make sense to me is how just time traveling itself doesn't cause changes in time, because every small detail should have some sort of effect.

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  9. The City On The Edge Of Forever shows how a small detail can change or affect a lot. The show over looks how small details can alter things in a drastic way which I think is crucial to the reality of time and how it actually works.

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  10. The episode of Star Trek, the City On The Edge Of Forever, shows the surprisingly devastating effect that extremely simple actions can have, and how meaningful they can be in the course of things. In the movie, Jim saves the life of a single person, and this one action, however small it seemed, made drastic changes to the future, and showed the relevance of every action we make, and how one must be careful in time travel.

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  11. How did they get back to the present? If there were no portals, like on the planet. A point this brings up is that any person can have dramatic change in history based on small help or mentoring, so next time you think you cant make a difference think of time travel.

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  12. This episode of Star Trek was rather interesting in it's concept of time travel. One idea that was not brought up was what happened if you went back in time and saw yourself. This is an extremely important factor in a majority of stories with time travel in it. Something I found interesting was the fact that Edith had to die. Could they have brought her to the present day? Or would that alter the fabric of time too? It may have made it confusing but I wish they'd brought that up as well.

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  13. The City On The Edge Of Forever was interesting episode. Their idea of time travel was on par of what we think in present day. Something that I notice was that the small details didn't effect the future.

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  14. I think that the Star Trek episode had a good meaning because the point of the episode is that everyone is important in time and but time always goes on despite what happens inside of it. The theory that everything was already laid out when the big bang happened and that nothing new can happen is funny to think about.

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  15. He assumes that changing things that happen in the past cant affect the now that much and that bugs me because if you tamper with the past it definitely will continue on to make a big mess in the end

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