h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Temporal Causality Weapons. (TCW’s) - A851708
Author: Alpha5 - U205983

This may be fictional, but it takes a serious look at a new kind of war. A time war

... fiction?...

You have given it a very good package, though. It makes things a bit difficult for me to figure out if I think this is Edited guide stuff or not.

'In dubio pro reo' - So... Why not?

HELL

I like where this entry is going... but the keyword there is 'going'. If you go back to the Peer Review page and read the Guidelines you will see that only completed entries should be submitted to the Peer Review section.

There is a lot of potential here for a theoretical discussion of the use of time travel as a means to prevent or create events for the advantage of an individual or group. The use of the concept does not necessarily have to be considered 'war' however, as if you go back in time and invent Coca Cola before they do, you may find your future a lot more profitable than their. Or maybe CDs... or the telephone... or cars... whatever. Starling made his money by starting the computer revolution early with the knowledge gleaned from the time ship... he didn't travel in time himself, but he took advantage of anachronistic technologies to create a divergent timeline.

I think your current entry relies too heavily on episodes of Voyager. Considering the somewhat more shallow examples, like Eraser, your Voyager discussion is far more detailed. And there is a lot of ground not covered - what about Terminator, Terminator 2, Time Cop, the Back to the Future trilogy, Doctor Who, etc.? 'Genesis of the Daleks' is as good an example as your Hitler one, because given the chance to destroy the Daleks before their creation the Doctor is divided between the prospect of peace in a Dalek-free universe and the alliances and advances that would NOT be made if they were not around.

I would suggest further work - a shift out of Peer Review and into the Writing Workshop instead - or simply out of Peer Review for further polishing and expansion.

Hope this doesn't put you off... keep going and you could have a good entry here.

The Apprentice

I would suggest that you have a good peruse at A845930, as well.

B

I think the Anachronism piece is best viewed to avoid trending already covered ground... along with the entry on Time Travel referenced in the Anachronism entry. By and large, however, the existing pieces cover other areas and this entry should be able to cover a lot of untouched ground.

The Apprentice

I only mentioned it for the plug

Seriously, though, if parts of this entry are going to contradict the anachronism theories, then the two won't sit easily together in the Edited Guide.

Is it just me, or are we on tricky semantic ground here...

B

Ditto what was said about reading the other time travel entries.

Seems to me that this could be the basis for a splendid entry on "Time Travel in Star Trek" that explains the principles behind time travel in those series. They're pretty complicated if I recall, so that's easily enough for an entry in itself.

Still, up to you, eh?
-Martin

Ive removed the entry from peer review to work on it further. I think however, that there has proberbly been many occations when the Guide contridicts itself, just not on this big a scale, and as i stated that TCW's are fiction, there should be no real problem

As I think has been mentioned, fiction is too strong a word. Given that time travel is theoretically possible, temporal side-effects are a theoretical consequence... and therefore a theory rather than a fiction.



TA