Yeah. I agree that Star Trek handles it's time travel in a certain way. I can't see how it could bear on the proceedings of Lost though. It's interesting as an irony
I thought it was used as a way to start from the beginning and be able to tell their own stories and didn't have to really stick to what was done with the original series. A clean slate (okay, tabula rasa) if you will. I did think 'man, these guys really like their time travel' though.
I thought it was used as a way to start from the beginning and be able to tell their own stories and didn't have to really stick to what was done with the original series. A clean slate (okay, tabula rasa) if you will. I did think 'man, these guys really like their time travel' though.
I don't think that is what the OP is getting at. I think his point is
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Star Trek embraced the multi-timeline concept. It gives some weight to the possibility that Lost is doing the same thing.
Oh. See, I didn't watch the original series that much so I have no idea about that. I just thought it bought them a little freedom in telling new stories.
They made clear from the beginning that the idea of Lost was a Michael Crichton type of science fiction, rather than a Star Trek type of science fiction -- the former being much more firmly based in science or at least pseudo-science. That obviously doesn't preclude them from writing a different kind of story in the Star Trek world, though, which has always been a franchise where pretty much anything goes.
I have to admit though, that this business of the compass has me wondering, as it shows a willingness to deviate from the logical.
Is the new podcast up yet? i haven't seen it on itunes. Anyway what i meant in the original post wasn't so much the way they used it but the fact that they were able to change the future by creating an event in the past (the destruction of the Kelvin) that rippled through out the time line making subtle changes, but eventually almost everything ends up pretty much the same...
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with the exception of Spocks Mom is dead and Vulcans are almost extinct, Vulcan is destroyed and Pike Presumably never goes to the menagerie.
and even more importantly is the fact that a character gets to experience booth time lines. think about that in terms of lost. I can't imagine how that would happen or who it would be. but just an interesting thought. I just find it interesting that clearly they were working on the script for this probably about season three. I wonder how much of an influenced writing two time travel stories affected one another.
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