You must not be much of a star trek fan, then <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

One of the highest rated fan favorite star trek movies is st4 - which revolved around another time travel storyline. When the Enterprise series finally started getting good and winning over old fans, it was due to a long time travel story arc. Time travel of one sort or another appeared in just about "version" of star trek over the years.

Time travel is a long-standing tradition in the plot of star trek, and personally, as both a physicist who has pondered these issues in formal class settings, and a science fiction geek, I LOVE the way the star trek films approach time travel. They actually address some of the paradoxes and deeper questions posed by time travel, instead of just glossing over or ignoring them.




By comparison, I find the treatment of time travel in the Terminator films to be absolutely ludicrous, and although I enjoy them thoroughly for their kickass action and robot war, I always have a lot of trouble suspending disbelief when the time travel rules are so completely random and inconsistent.


PS - the new terminator movie was definitely entertaining. For one, because there was no time travel in it, so no chance for them to goof things up with that again. For two, because it pretty much only referenced the second (and best) and first film in the series, and completely ignored the events of the mediocre tv show and the horrible third movie.