If I were to give sci-fi writers or anyone in that creative space some advice, it’d be this: Don’t fuck with time. Just stay away. There’s very few shows/books/whatever that can pull it off without “going back and fixing it” becoming like literally every episode. or like Voyager’s Year of Hell arc, where that entire arc literally does not matter to the overall story, it didn’t really develop the characters, and everything at the start of it was reset.
Quantum Leap and Dr. Who are the only two examples I can think of where it works.
In Star Trek, though, it became a form of lazy writing.
I think the only time I didn’t hate it so much was in the whale movie and then the DS9 episode with the bell riots.
But for everyone of those, there’s the arc or movie or episode that’s like “yeah we went back in time and fixed it and… uh…. What was I talking about? Hello nice alien, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”
It’s funny.
If I were to give sci-fi writers or anyone in that creative space some advice, it’d be this: Don’t fuck with time. Just stay away. There’s very few shows/books/whatever that can pull it off without “going back and fixing it” becoming like literally every episode. or like Voyager’s Year of Hell arc, where that entire arc literally does not matter to the overall story, it didn’t really develop the characters, and everything at the start of it was reset.
Quantum Leap and Dr. Who are the only two examples I can think of where it works.
Perhaps they work because time travel is the core of the story
That’s definitely part of it.
In Star Trek, though, it became a form of lazy writing.
I think the only time I didn’t hate it so much was in the whale movie and then the DS9 episode with the bell riots.
But for everyone of those, there’s the arc or movie or episode that’s like “yeah we went back in time and fixed it and… uh…. What was I talking about? Hello nice alien, it’s a pleasure to meet you.”