What if you had a time machine to go back to some Civil War Event, then what?

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Slightly similar to the Butterfly Effect. Also known as "The Edith Keeler-- thankfully-- Denied Effect."


I shall now be chastised by the total Trek nerds.
I remember that episode, it was a good one, a little sad though.
 

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Slightly similar to the Butterfly Effect. Also known as "The Edith Keeler-- thankfully-- Denied Effect."


I shall now be chastised by the total Trek nerds.
A true time travel nerd will say that had Edith Keeler lived, then no earther would have been at that time portal timeline entanglement and all that. Except for the grace of the writers, once McCoy went into the portal not only would the Enterprize disappear but also everyone connected with her.

I am a wet dishrag for what its, time travel and black confederate discussions.
 

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they're always going to be finding Data's head right where he left it!

Mark Twain and the Devidians?

After hearing about two people "vanishing" and some confrontation in a hospital, he traveled to the Presidio and invited the reporter along for the story of his life. Armed with a Colt .45, he confronted Captain Picard and his command crew, determined to turn them in to the authorities. But then the Devidian couple arrived from a portal, Data was decapitated, and Clemens followed everyone into the portal, finding himself on Devidia II of 2369.

 

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But you've solved the never-ending change to history problem - it can't be changed. The past is still the past. I mean - they're always going to be finding Data's head right where he left it!
Then there is a theory that a time traveler can change the past resulting in a new 'time stream' alongside the old 'time stream'. We have 2 futures in the City on the Edge of Forever. One without the Enterprise and one with. It is also relative where the occupiers of a time stream see no change going forward.
 

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Then there is a theory that a time traveler can change the past resulting in a new 'time stream' alongside the old 'time stream'. We have 2 futures in the City on the Edge of Forever. One without the Enterprise and one with. It is also relative where the occupiers of a time stream see no change going forward.
That one's a really fun one! What if the bum hadn't vaporized himself, had a religious experience courtesy of an angel drinking bad hooch and became partners with Edith in her salvation soup kitchen? He might have been the one to save her and everybody in Kirk's world...a big poofing of the puffins! (That deep distant chuckling you hear is the Guardian...)

Now the whole thing wouldn't have been possible if Albert Abraham Michelson hadn't been playing around with mirrors and the speed of light in Virginia City, and needed the help of the Cartwrights to get to learnin'! ("Look to the Stars" 1962 Bonanza episode.)
 

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Amerigo is the guy after whom the Americas are named

he is as bad for colonization of those two continents as Columbus
 

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Amerigo is the guy after whom the Americas are named
I disagree he wrote moving stories of the new World. On his first, second maybe fourth trip... We know he went on one trip... maybe not because we only have letters written by him well maybe by him... Be nice we are his namesake over on this side of the pond... He wrote the first travel guides to the new world... Columbus was a little more evil....
 
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No, no, no...those are all late comers. It was Picard. We know because he left his head in Kennewick. Star Fleet must issue a directive about Star Fleet officers keeping their heads!

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No, no, no...those are all late comers. It was Picard. We know because he left his head in Kennewick. Star Fleet must issue a directive about Star Fleet officers keeping their heads!

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The archaeologist James Chatters initially described the skull as Caucasian, and produced a reconstruction of his face famously suggesting that Kennewick Man looked a bit like the actor Patrick Stewart. But eventually Dr. Chatters decided against the European hypothesis, swayed by the discovery of other old Native American skulls with unusual shapes.
 

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Here I found this...

The archaeologist James Chatters initially described the skull as Caucasian, and produced a reconstruction of his face famously suggesting that Kennewick Man looked a bit like the actor Patrick Stewart. But eventually Dr. Chatters decided against the European hypothesis, swayed by the discovery of other old Native American skulls with unusual shapes.
The people in the area where he was found look just like him! I have problems with anthropologists sometimes... Olmec heads are proof of Africans in Mexico...check out the Native people where those heads were found - look exactly the same!
 

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Now the whole thing wouldn't have been possible if Albert Abraham Michelson hadn't been playing around with mirrors and the speed of light in Virginia City, and needed the help of the Cartwrights to get to learnin'! ("Look to the Stars" 1962 Bonanza episode.)

When I was in college and me and my buddies were bingeing on the original Battlestar Galactica every week--w/ a vast array of adult beverages on hand-- we called Ben Cartwright Space Pop.
 
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