LoboStele wrote:
Grand Moff Boris wrote:
I'm just having a hard time picturing Zachary Quinto and Leonard Nimoy having a teary-eyed goodbye as they make the final correction to fix everything, and old Spock disappears, for good, a la Back to the Future style.
Eh, it'll be an atypical sort of scene that has been done 10-12 times in ST.
Come to think of it, there was a really good Deep Space 9 ep that focused on the moral dilemma of changing the timeline. The cast is onboard their little ship the Defiant when they get pulled into a "temporal anomaly" that forces them to land on the planet in a solar system that is cut off from the galaxy (something about the magnetic pull of the sun preventing long-range communication).
When they get off the ship, they are greeted by their descendants. Apparently, their descendants explain, they will manage to leave the planet, but their ship is hit by the wake of the temporal anomaly that cripples the ship completely as it throws it backward in time. The descendants even tell them which of the crew dies, and when - including many who don't survive the crash.
Afterward, the survivors tough it out and build a colony, and now 300 years later here they have built a decent sized civilization.
There is discussion about how now they have seen what will happen and can change it. But after getting to know their descendants, they aren't comfortable with the idea of erasing history, and so everyone on the ship unanimously agrees to proceed as though they don't know.
However, on the planet is a very old Odo, who hides from the crew and makes the descendants tell the Defiant personnel he died. He only reveals himself to Kira, whom he is in love with. Ultimately, his love for Kira and his life without her all these years is more than he can bear, and it means more to him than the descendants. He uploads a message into the Defiant after it leaves along with a computer program that veers them off course of the anomaly. He tells them he is sorry he changed history and for all the people who will never exist now, but he asks forgiveness and said he doesn't want to go through them all dying again. Of course, it's made clear the only one he is really thinking about is Kira.
It was a decent episode for the show, and one of about 10 I can recall off the top of my head.