Trek at 50: The quest for a unifying theory of time travel in Star Trek
Enlarge / The Enterprise, caught in the wake of a temporal vortex, witnesses the Earth, assimilated long ago, in the altered timeline. (credit: Paramount Pictures)
To continue our celebration of Star Trek's 50th anniversary, we've decided to resurface a few of our favorite Trek stories from the Ars archives. Contributor Xaq Rzetelny explored how time travel works across the various series in February 2016, so today his piece travels forward through the space-time continuum.
We're at the start of what should be a big year for Star Trek. The franchise will celebrate its 50th anniversary this fall, but 2016 also brings a new movie (Star Trek Beyond), the recovery of long-lost documents belonging to Gene Roddenberry, and the development of (finally!) a new series set to launch in January 2017.
It's no secret that we here at Ars love (and sometimes hate) our Star Trek. With so much time having elapsed since the original series first aired-and with so much time spent watching/reading/thinking through it all-we felt it was about, well, time to thoroughly explore one of our favorite Trek staples: time travel.
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