time travel
| First Appearance | TOS07 (29 Sep 1966) |
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Time travel was the act of traveling through time. On Stardate 1705.0, the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 accidentally traveled through time three days into the past by forcing a cold-restart of the ship's warp engines while orbiting Psi 2000, which was undergoing enormous changes in its mass and gravity.[1][2] On Stardate 3113.2, the Enterprise was en route to Starbase 9 when it encountered an uncharted black star. The singularity's high gravity required the ship to use all of its power to escape, inadvertently throwing the ship into a time warp that deposited it in 1969. The ship was able to reproduce this effect,[3] dubbed the lightspeed breakaway factor,[4] in order to return to 2267.[3] A year later, the ship's crew would utilize this method again to travel to 1968 in order to conduct historical research.[4]
Lazarus (OS20) claimed that his ship was capable of time travel, as well as travel between universes, and that he had chased Lazarus, who had an identical ship, through time, space, and realities for years before encountering the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 on Stardate 3087.6.[5]
Notes and References
- ↑ Roddenberry, Gene (Executive Producer). "The Naked Time". Star Trek, season 1, episode 4 (Production number 07). Directed by Marc Daniels. Written by John D.F. Black. Desilu Productions. 29 September 1966.
- ↑ Given the factors of both high gravity and the use of warp drive, it's highly possible that the time travel while escaping Psi 2000 was also from the lightspeed breakaway factor, rather than a side-effect of the engine cold-start.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Roddenberry, Gene (Executive Producer). "Tomorrow is Yesterday." Star Trek, Season 1, Episode 19 (Production 21). Directed by Michael O'Herlihy. Written by D.C. Fontana. Desilu Productions, 26 January 1967.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Roddenberry, Gene (Executive Producer/Story). "Assignment: Earth." Star Trek, Season 2, Episode 26. Directed by Marc Daniels. Story by Gene Roddenberry & Art Wallace. Teleplay by Art Wallace. Desilu Productions, 29 March 1968.
- ↑ Roddenberry, Gene (Executive Producer). "The Alternative Factor." Star Trek, Season 1, Episode 27 (Production 20). Directed by Gerd Oswald. Written by Don Ingalls. Desilu Productions, 30 March 1967.
