![]() ![]() The rules are, you cannot touch "yourself" without setting up a fearsome rent in the fabric of time. ![]() Even in the last frames of the film, we are being presented with paradoxes, as when a weary timecop ( Jean-Claude Van Damme), having battled through the decades to set things right, returns home and is greeted by a child he has never seen before, who cries out, " Dad!" What and where is the person, identical to Van Damme, who the child has known as Dad? Doesn't that mean there is an extra timecop around? What happens when they meet? Ah, but the movie has already answered that question, in a scene where a time-traveling evil U.S. "Timecop," a low-rent "Terminator," is the kind of movie that is best not thought about at all, for that way madness lies. ![]() And furthermore, how can a traveling timecop return to the present from the past without, in effect, traveling into the future? You see what we're up against here. That is because "you can travel back in time, but not into the future, because the future hasn't happened yet." Yes, but once you do travel back in time, the present becomes the future that has not yet happened. Elizabeth first got interested in space after watching the movie Apollo 13 in 1996, and still wants to be an astronaut someday.Well, says the movie, the present is defined as Now. Elizabeth is also a post-secondary instructor in communications and science since 2015. in Space Studies from the University of North Dakota, a Bachelor of Journalism from Canada's Carleton University and a Bachelor of History from Canada's Athabasca University. Her latest book, "Why Am I Taller?", is co-written with astronaut Dave Williams. Elizabeth's reporting includes multiple exclusives with the White House and Office of the Vice-President of the United States, an exclusive conversation with aspiring space tourist (and NSYNC bassist) Lance Bass, speaking several times with the International Space Station, witnessing five human spaceflight launches on two continents, working inside a spacesuit, and participating in a simulated Mars mission. She was contributing writer for for 10 years before joining full-time, freelancing since 2012. The device looks like a big gyroscope, and travelers must be specially coated before entering for it to work properly.Įlizabeth Howell (she/her), Ph.D., is a staff writer in the spaceflight channel since 2022 covering diversity, education and gaming as well. At various moments, different factions in the war between humans and machines use the equipment to send their agents backward or forward in time. Time Displacement Equipment ("The Terminator" movie series)ĭemonstrating how a war can be fought in four dimensions - yes, including time - the Time Displacement Equipment is a central part of "The Terminator" film series. ![]() But things take an unexpected turn when an explosion knocks Napoleon Bonaparte into their wake, dragging the French leader from Austria in 1805 to Southern California in 1988. In perhaps the best method ever to get a school assignment done, slackers Bill Preston (Alex Winter) and Ted Logan (Keanu Reeves) use a phone booth to travel back in time and get some first-hand knowledge of historical figures. Phone booth ("Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure") (Image credit: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc.) He planned to test this device to save somebody he loved, but his first flight plunges him into a war he is not prepared to fight.īill and Ted are in the phone booth during their excellent adventure. Wells novel, this 2002 movie shows Alexander Hartdegen (Guy Pearce) sitting in a complicated device of wheels, levers and light to travel 800,000 years into the future. Complicated contraption ("The Time Machine")īased on the 1895 H.G. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) by saying Spock used too much "LDS" a few years ago. Kirk (William Shatner) mastering the use of "colorful metaphor" swearing, and explaining the behavior of Mr. The crew's escapades in 1980s San Francisco include Captain James T. Enterprise (which we also think is an awesome time machine) in the classic first season episode "Tomorrow Is Yesterday." The Enterprise crew pioneered the manuever with the U.S.S. While the characters in " Star Trek: The Original Series" are no stranger to time travel, it is in the film "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home" that they do one of their most famous maneuvers with a captured Klingon Bird of Prey - a slingshot around the sun to nab humpback whales from the 20th century. Promtional image of "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home." (Image credit: Paramount Pictures) Klingon Bird of Prey ("Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home") ![]()
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