Star Trek

[Alex]

Originally Posted by innerSpaceman

The premise, which I happen to like and which is time-travel fiction standard, is that certain things will happen no matter what, and other things will change.

Yes, that is a time-travel staple...when things remain in a single timeline. It is definitely not a staple of multiple timeline science fiction however and that is what we are dealing with here.

But then I also simply don't have any personal or philosophical affinity for ideas such as "fate" so I'm sure that doesn't help.