Good concept... Let's hope that they can keep it up...
After the president is saved, the whole thing should have never happened. He should be back in the mental hospital, right?
He saves the whitehouse, so they dont need the Contingion program or whatever it's called, therefore he should be back in his cell since he was never needed, right?
Why do I get the feeling that with a premise like this show, we will ahve nits like this EVERY week.
I could write a paper on the lack of logic in this episode (but I won't).
I think that a lot of this is nudge nudge, wink wink kind of stuff.
Re Jason Krietsch: To quote Janeway (I think) from ST:V , "Temporal Logic gives me a headache".
The whole one week time travel causes a bunch of problems... Including the fact that we have multiple items at the same point in space-time.
But this looks like it may be fun, so I'm willing to forego the temporal logic and enjoy the ride...
i haven't seen the show, but, Scott, have you
ever read Anne McCaffery's Pern series? Her theory
is that one object existing twice at the same
place/time would experience great stress and/or
death.
Yes I have read them... It's been a while, though... In Pern, though, it's also a problem sometimes knowing "when" you are, but we're getting off subject...
My biggest problem is what happens to Parker's old self when he travels back in time? Shouldn't he have a duplicate that hasn't travelled back in time yet? Wouldn't the Parker's start stacking up like cord wood? Or does his other self just vanish when he materializes. And wouldn't that cause another set of problems? Maybe this WAS dealt with and I just missed it.
No, it wasn't dealt with on the show, but we have discussed it here.
My nit on this particular ep is, of course:
Backstpe was not supposed to be operational for another year. They rushed it because of the bombing. So Parker goes back and "undoes" the bombing, leaving Backstep with no reason to rush. Except, of course, that Parker is there, so that they know they need to get it up and running in a week to avoid (even more) paradox.
Temporal Logic Gives Me A Headache -- Capt. Janeway
From watching last night's episode (1/27/99), it seems that "Seven Days" theory of time travel is: Whenever Parker backsteps, he (as well as the sphere) replaces his past self. So, there is no "Back to the Future"-like fear of him running into himself. However, this raises a question: Since the past Parker and the sphere must disappear when he arrives back in time, why has the team in previous episodes seemed surprised when Parker made the phone call to let them know he had backstepped?
During the primordial episode, Lt. Frank Parker had arrived to the Backstep facility and commenced divulging what would occur in regard to the President, Vice President, and other presidential employees. Nate Ramsey declares that Lt. Frank Parker was deemed as "missing" from Hanson Island. Perhaps this is a clue as to why there are not two Parkers nor spheres.
I hope that UPN reairs this, maybe before the new season starts, to catch people up who may not have seen the show before.
If the sphere at Backstep vanished when the sphere that went back in time arrived, why did nobody there notice its disappearance?
Shouldn't somebody have been left to guard the truck after the terrorists ran off, maybe even attempt to neutralise the bomb?
Considering the events of this past week's tragedy, it is ironic that this episode involved a plane crashing into the White House since that was once of the hijacker's targets.
I wish there were a Project Backstep right now...
I've been thinking just the same thing - where's Frank Parker when you need him?
One of the best things (to me) about this episode was the look of grim determination on Parker's face before the BackStep. I'm sure our brave American soldiers will also have that look.