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01-03-2023, 02:15 AM
https://whatculture.com/tv/10-worst-star-trek-time-travel-episodes?rf=homepage
It's hard to tell a time travel story without any paradoxes, but these episodes didn't even try.
BY MARCUS FRY
UPDATED: DECEMBER 31ST, 2022
Time travel has become a common theme throughout Star Trek and the focus of countless episodes, both groundbreaking and unwatchable. We've already done a list counting down the ten best time travel episodes in Trek, so here we're gonna focus on the worst of the worst. Episodes filled with paradoxes, confusing timelines, pointless endings, and all that fun timey-wimey stuff.
A lot of the entries on this list had the potential to be much better and introduced some really cool concepts, but were either rushed or not well thought-out (https://whatculture.com/tv/10-worst-star-trek-time-travel-episodes?page=10). The problem with time travel is that it can give you a lot of power as a writer, but it's so easy to get lost in paradoxes that turn your script into a confusing mess.
Keep in mind that, while these are the worst in terms of time travel episodes, a few of the entries on this list are okay, they just don't compare to time travel classics like The Visitor and Cause And Effect.
It's hard to tell a time travel story without any paradoxes, but these episodes didn't even try.
BY MARCUS FRY
UPDATED: DECEMBER 31ST, 2022
Time travel has become a common theme throughout Star Trek and the focus of countless episodes, both groundbreaking and unwatchable. We've already done a list counting down the ten best time travel episodes in Trek, so here we're gonna focus on the worst of the worst. Episodes filled with paradoxes, confusing timelines, pointless endings, and all that fun timey-wimey stuff.
A lot of the entries on this list had the potential to be much better and introduced some really cool concepts, but were either rushed or not well thought-out (https://whatculture.com/tv/10-worst-star-trek-time-travel-episodes?page=10). The problem with time travel is that it can give you a lot of power as a writer, but it's so easy to get lost in paradoxes that turn your script into a confusing mess.
Keep in mind that, while these are the worst in terms of time travel episodes, a few of the entries on this list are okay, they just don't compare to time travel classics like The Visitor and Cause And Effect.