Zeus-cat
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Hopefully lots of Star Trek fans here that know what the thread title means. One thing that has always bugged me about this episode is that to Kirk, Spock and McCoy, Edith Keeler is dead the instant they travel back to their normal time regardless if she walks in front of that truck or not. As soon as they travel back to their time she would have been dead for hundreds of years even if she had lived another 50 years after she met Kirk. I know they see her get killed and that is traumatic. And her life was cut short, but literally everyone they met on that trip was dead the instant they jumped back (or is it forward) to their own time. Do they mourn anyone else? Do they even mention anyone else? Ugh, another reason to hate temporal mechanics.