Your Favorite Television Episodes Or Movies About Time Travel?

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: DS9, the first several seasons are very weak and as a show I don't rate it highly- but it has some of the individually best episodes- especially "In the Pale Moonlight." the mirror universe (from TOS) episodes are entertaining as well. I'd say Pale Moonlight gives The Inner Light (from TNG) a run for its money.
I have an interesting relationship with DS9 though, because as a series it definitely took some serious time to find its footing.

I feel like that was a similar process to TNG, DS9, and Voyager - the first 2 seasons are very weak, but after that figure the characters and the themes out and start to have some strong episodes.

I really don't cry often at all, but the Inner Light gets me every dang time. Like, serious ugly crying.
 
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Timeline (the novel by Michael Crichton) was a blast. Far better than the film.

TV: aside from the Star Trek episodes already mentioned, I'd have to include "Yesterday's Enterprise" (TNG season 3), and "Twilight" (ST:Enterprise season 3). Mind-blowing.
 
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I feel like that was a similar process to TNG, DS9, and Voyager - the first 2 seasons are very weak, but after that figure the characters and the themes out and start to have some strong episodes.

I really don't cry often at all, but the Inner Light gets me every dang time. Like, serious ugly crying.

Agreed. Agreed and agreed! I almost don't remember the first two seasons of TNG, it was trying to be TOS and doing a bad job of it. Many of those episodes are completely cringe-worthy when I think about it.


I have the song that Picard plays from the inner light as a ringtone on my phone, but every time I go to set it I have an emotional reaction and I can't do it.... 😵‍💫😵‍💫 that episode gets me every time
 
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Timeline (the novel by Michael Crichton) was a blast. Far better than the film.

TV: aside from the Star Trek episodes already mentioned, I'd have to include "Yesterday's Enterprise" (TNG season 3), and "Twilight" (ST:Enterprise season 3). Mind-blowing.
Let's make sure history never forgets... the name Enterprise
 
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Let's make sure history never forgets... the name Enterprise


Perhaps one of their earlier escapades!

Shame they didn't fit this one with Transparent Aluminium.

 
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I actually remember reading a wild theory that of all the timeline changes made in the Star Trek universe, this is the only one that is not "corrected," (Scotty giving away the formula) and leads to the eugenics wars and is the point of divergence between our Timeline and the Star Trek timeline. Pretty funny stuff

Perhaps one of their earlier escapades!

Shame they didn't fit this one with Transparent Aluminium.

 
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Does dimension travel count? If so, as a teen and early 20-something during the 80s, I thoroughly enjoyed this series. (Don’t @me, it was a helluva decade 😁)
 
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Does dimension travel count? If so, as a teen and early 20-something during the 80s, I thoroughly enjoyed this series. (Don’t @me, it was a helluva decade 😁)

For some reason this reminds me of the TV show Primeval, which is an absurd ride of time travel ancient animal shenanigans. Not really related at all to your post but something about the poster did it
 
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I’m gonna have to check out 12 Monkeys, The Peripheral, and Dark. I just finished a series and need something to start.
 
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I’m gonna have to check out 12 Monkeys, The Peripheral, and Dark. I just finished a series and need something to start.

Though not strictly time travel another great series is See.
 
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BTW, how hilarious is it that so many of us Omega watch nerds are Trekkies?

Coincidence? I think not ...
 
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[Edit: Sorry, I am not a good reader of thread titles ... these are books! Well, Slaughterhouse-Five is also a movie, but I've never seen it.]

There are so many, this is a great topic. The classic is obviously The Time Machine, by H.G. Wells, but it's pretty dated by today's standards.

Let me mention Slaughterhouse-Five and The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August (which is actually a time-loop story). Summaries are below.

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
(https://www.cliffsnotes.com/literature/s/slaughterhousefive/book-summary)
Slaughterhouse-Five is an account of Billy Pilgrim's capture and incarceration by the Germans during the last years of World War II, and scattered throughout the narrative are episodes from Billy's life both before and after the war, and from his travels to the planet Tralfamadore (Trawl-fahm-uh-door). Billy is able to move both forwards and backwards through his lifetime in an arbitrary cycle of events. Enduring the tedious life of a 1950s optometrist in Ilium, New York, he is the lover of a former pornographic movie star on the planet Tralfamadore and simultaneously an American prisoner of war (POW) in Nazi Germany.

The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North
(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Fifteen_Lives_of_Harry_August)
Harry August is born in the women's washroom of Berwick-upon-Tweed station in 1919, leads an unremarkable life, and dies in hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 1989. He then finds himself born again back in 1919 in the same circumstances, gaining the knowledge of his earlier life at an early age. He learns he is an Ouroboran or Kalachakra and is destined to be reborn again and again. He is not alone and is soon contacted by the Cronus Club, an organization of similarly affected members, who look after him in childhood in subsequent lives.

In later lives, Harry studies biology, chemistry, and physics. With knowledge from previous lives, he easily becomes a professor of physics at the University of Cambridge, where he meets an intelligent undergraduate student named Vincent Rankis. Vincent and Harry become friends as they talk about theoretical physics and the nature of time. Eventually, Harry and Vincent both realize the other is also an Ouroboran. Other members of the Cronus Club later inform Harry that the world is ending and that with each life Harry lives, the ending is becoming closer.
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Has anyone mentioned ...

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I know you’re singing the song to yourself now.

I remember watching that movie on TV as a kid in the Mid 80s. I haven't seen it since, but I do recall enjoying it.
 
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Somewhere In Time. Rest in peace, Christopher Reeve.