Have you ever seen
Star Trek episode "The City on
Edge of Forever"? If you haven't: Commander McCoy accidentally makes himself delirious, beams down to a nearby planet, goes through a portal back in time to
1930s, and changes history by saving a woman. This causes
Starship Enterprise to cease existing.
So Captain Kirk and others who followed McCoy to
planet are stranded and have to go through
portal to save McCoy, stop him from changing history, and bring back
Starship Enterprise and their buddies left on board.
They arrive a few days before McCoy and while there Kirk falls in love with a social worker, Edith Keeler. But Spock discovers that in order to repair history she will have to be killed in an auto accident.
Furthermore, if she lives, she will lead a pacifist movement that makes
President of
U.S. delay entering WWII. This will allow
Nazis time to be
first to make
atomic bomb and take control of
world.
So Kirk has to make a decision: let McCoy save Edith and change
course of history forever or stop McCoy and save
world from dictatorship.
Do you ever wonder if history would have turned out
same way if even one thing had been changed? If one person had lived or died? If one event had or had not taken place?
History is really mysterious in that way, because you never know if one minor incident in
whole thousands of years of history could have had huge effects we never even thought of.
I've realized that
Internet is
same way. It has allowed us to do business and live life like we never have before.