Comments on: Time travel is beautiful

By: Paul A.

Paul A. — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 03:36:48 +0000

I call time travel stories SciFi plot hamburger helper. I don’t think much of them.
HG Wells The Time Machine the exemption, of course.

By: Chip

Chip — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 16:49:01 +0000

What?!? No Futurama!

By: Joe

Joe — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:03:39 +0000

Time travel is ONLY a possiblility in our immagination.
The math to come to an exact spot while on a moving planet in a moving solar system with no fixed trajectory from any non moving entity.
Instant death machine.

By: Matzerath

Matzerath — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 06:34:03 +0000

You have to be careful with these fantastical charts — The ‘Movie Time-line of History’ became horribly cluttered by the ‘Alien vs Predator’ movies.

By: Rogue Medic

Rogue Medic — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 21:40:36 +0000

But then again, adding in the good Doctor’s travels would mean turning this lovely graphic into a solid red rectangle.

Is there something wrong with solid red rectangles?

Maybe, if we were to travel into the future, we would find that solid red rectangles are revered.

Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say `nee’ at will to solid red rectangles. There is a pestilence upon this land, nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history. – Roger The Shrubber and Rescuer of Red Rectangles.

By: Chanelle

Chanelle — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:52:37 +0000

@36 “Tomorrow Is Yesterday” is on the chart. They did leave off a lot of Star Trek episodes, though. I can think of several NG episodes that I don’t see on there.

Several good scifi series are missing entirely. I give it a 5/10.

By: Nick G.

Nick G. — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 18:48:34 +0000

The future position of First Contact and Times Arrow 1&2 are reversed.

By: L Ron Hubbub

L Ron Hubbub — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:58:43 +0000

They have “Buck Rogers in the 25th Century” landing in the 26th century.

By: DennyMo

DennyMo — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 13:34:17 +0000

Here’s a few other ST events they forgot:
- ST:DS9 episode “Trials and Tribblations”. I loved the time-cops’ comments in that one as they interviewed Sisko. “James Kirk? Him again!”
- Story arc from ST:Voy about the guy from the future who’d stolen the time ship and come back to 20th century Earth to sell “technological breakthroughs”.
- ST:TOS “Space Seed” where we meet Kahn after Kirk is kind enough to thaw him.

My oath to the continuum cops: if I have access to a time machine, I will only use it to make a killing in Vegas when the Cubs win the World Series. So can I borrow one, please?!?

By: arkonbey

arkonbey — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:49:37 +0000

Wicked fun except they forgot to put in ST TOS: “Tomorrow Is Yesterday”.

@Jeff: the Final Countdown should have TOTALLY been on this list!

By: Tsar Bomba

Tsar Bomba — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:46:26 +0000

Where’s LOST? Oh, I know. There are not enough colors in the universe to describe that show’s time travels.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 11:44:31 +0000

They also don’t have the new Star Trek movie.

By: Na

Na — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 08:51:17 +0000

Why does Farscape never appear in these things? (Or am I the only one here who watches it?)

By: smeared ink

smeared ink — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 06:53:00 +0000

Someone already made this incredible beast for Primer:
http://comequelfilm.files.wordpress.com/2009/07/primer_timeline.jpg

I think there was one time I watched that movie (maybe viewing number 5) when I felt like I pretty much totally got it. That didn’t really carry over to viewing number 6 though.

By: December

December — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:47:06 +0000

Yeah, really! Where’s the Heart of Gold?

By: Jack Mitcham

Jack Mitcham — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:32:56 +0000

A little off topic, but not really:

I just watched the new Doctor Who episode on youtube.. I’m going to like this new Doctor. I don’t know if I’ll like him as much as Tennant, but I really enjoyed this first new episode.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 02:21:29 +0000

They forgot “The Final Countdown”, a great movie about an aircraft carrier from 1980 transported to 1941 just before the Japanese invasion of Pearl Harbor.

By: Kyle

Kyle — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:33:41 +0000

No LOST?

By: ibishtar

ibishtar — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 01:08:12 +0000

That is really lovely. I did try to something like that for the new series of Doctor Who. It really is a mess:
http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k312/unopoo_2006/Blog/DoctorsTravels.jpg

By: Pete

Pete — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:57:46 +0000

The Heart of Gold’s trip to the End of the Universe should top of the chart. Does the Infinite Improbability Drive fit into one of the time-travel method categories?

By: Larian LeQuella

Larian LeQuella — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 00:03:10 +0000

Off topic: Did you see the ruling from the UK?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8598472.stm

Reality wins again!

By: Bill Roberts

Bill Roberts — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:56:09 +0000

Why isn’t the time travel in Star Trek ’09 indicated? Because they decided to call it an “alternate reality?”

By: Evolving Squid

Evolving Squid — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 22:55:59 +0000

Babylon 5 had some time travel back 1000 years, although Earth was only peripherally involved.

By: Caitlin and Brandi

Caitlin and Brandi — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:50:51 +0000

Perhaps the lovely graphic would be turned in to a solid BLUE rectangle.

By: Chris Hallquist

Chris Hallquist — Sun, 04 Apr 2010 21:15:26 +0000

"But then again, adding in the good Doctor’s travels would mean turning this lovely graphic into a solid red rectangle." Or a Timey Wimey Ball.