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question about "synchronic displacement" in TNG 'Times Arrow' (discuss.tchncs.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by emeralddawn45@discuss.tchncs.de to c/daystrominstitute@startrek.website

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So in this episode they go into a cave, and can read some sort of energy field, as well as Troi having a sense that there are lifeforms present. Geordie explains that the people must be displaced in time, but only by a few milliseconds. If that's true, how is there not overlap? Say the people are a few milliseconds ahead of the enterprise when they arrive, shouldn't they appear a few milliseconds later, as they still would have had to be 'present' during that time? I don't understand how they would be consistently invisible if time is a dimension like space that can be traveled through. Some past (or future) version of them would be present regardless of the desynchronization would they not?

Please if anyone could help me understand or shed some light on this I'd appreciate it.

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[–] rah@feddit.uk 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

You won't be able to make sense of it because the idea is just some nonsense words made up by writers as a means of allowing the story they wanted to tell to be told. It doesn't make sense because it's writing, not science.

Edit: fascinated by the downvotes.

[–] Lumidaub@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

The downvotes are because what you wrote is pointless. We all know it's made up and in the end there is no actual, definitive, real answer. That's not what we're here for. We are here for the creative exercise of finding an answer that fits the universe of the show and episode. You just shut down that creative process.