• cynar@lemmy.world
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    3 days ago

    That episode bugged me. You find yourself in a time loop. It’s looped enough times for you to detect it.

    “Let’s not change anything.”

    … WHY?

    Turn around, fly away and contact someone. Launch a probe from a distance. Change the loop, so it doesn’t loop!

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      3 days ago

      You don’t know what exactly you’ve done so how can you know what you’re changing. Maybe turning around is what gets you into the loop to begin with.

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        You know you didn’t know about the loop initially. Therefore, something you did without that knowledge caused it. Making changes, based on the new info will change the outcome to something different.

        You wouldn’t just turn around without cause in the original loop. Doing so, with your only reason being the new knowledge will change the outcome.

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldM
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    This reads like a crime procedural where we’ll later find out it was O’Brien who caused the trouble all along.

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    O’Brien was helmsman before LaForge. One encounter with Q was enough and O’Brien decided there were better places to be.

  • [object Object]@lemmy.ca
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    The third panel could just be replaced with “I’ll try harder to update my tickets regularly” and the comic end there.

    That’s my life.