A time-traveler is sentenced to death for violating laws against technology in the second half of the two-part series finale (a sequel to the Emmy-winning episode "A Stitch in Time").
After thorough, vigorous deliberation apropos of the time-traveling doctor's creed for preservation and wise, responsible handling of technology, another time-traveler from the doctor's time, who was at one point her student and later her partner in the development of the time machine, threatens the court via a cold fusion bomb fastened to his chest to heed his argument. He indicates numerous references as to why technology ought to never see the light of day again, one of which--his primary, much emphasized example--is the utter extinction of the human race due to the aftermath of the events in Season Four's "Relativity Theory." He acquiesces in allowing the court to make its final appeal, and with this he prepares to depart into the past via the time machine, at which time he offers the doctor an opportunity to accompany him and leave her contingent execution. She refuses, the madman vanishes into the vortex, and the court debates its final appeal a la a conclave. The court reaches its verdict and announces the doctor's aphorism to be the right one. However, the madman, assured that the court would side with the doctor, has the cold fusion bomb, which he previously claimed to be false, automatically activate itself. It detonates and eliminates all traces of the case, the court, and all residents and structures within an astronomical radius.
By Tim McCree (Tim_m) on Friday, December 22, 2023 - 5:33 am: