06-20-2022, 03:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 06-20-2022, 04:30 PM by FaceInTheCrowd.)
I remember that movie. I thought the time travel premise was pretty thin (the real-life butterfly effect theory is about minute fluctuations in air pressure measurements having a large effect on weather forecasts (not on the weather itself), not on 100+ million years of evolution), but once you decide to make a time travel movie called "The Butterfly Effect," I guess you're pretty much stuck with it.
The PD says you're not supposed to interfere with the development of worlds that have no knowledge of other worlds (in later versions of Trek, they specifically say less advanced pre-warp worlds). But I think when a planet's life form actually has the ability to reach out and snatch your ship out of space and you are powerless to do much of anything about it, the idea that you can "interfere" with or have anything to say about what it decides to do sort of goes out the window. At any rate, they leave the planet promising to tell no one about any of it, so the question becomes moot.
The PD says you're not supposed to interfere with the development of worlds that have no knowledge of other worlds (in later versions of Trek, they specifically say less advanced pre-warp worlds). But I think when a planet's life form actually has the ability to reach out and snatch your ship out of space and you are powerless to do much of anything about it, the idea that you can "interfere" with or have anything to say about what it decides to do sort of goes out the window. At any rate, they leave the planet promising to tell no one about any of it, so the question becomes moot.