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YESTERDAY'S ENTERPRISE AND TASHA YAR EXPLAINED (last updated 3/30/92)
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This posting is intended to cut down on the "often asked questions" that
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seem to pop up every few months in the rec.arts.startrek.misc newsgroup
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concerning "Yesterday's Enterprise" and Tasha's life and death. It is one
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of a number of periodic postings posted to r.a.s.*. Please refer to the
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"LIST OF PERIODIC POSINGS TO r.a.s.* NEWSGROUPS" article for a full list of
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periodic postings.
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A lot of people seem to be having trouble understanding the time travel
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involved in this episode (and cluttering up the net every few months
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because of this). I'm not the best at explaining these sorts of things,
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and if anyone else can in less space, feel free to email me. Anyway... in
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"YE" they start out in the "peaceful" timeline (PT) indicated by the top
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line in the diagram below. When the Enterprise-C broke through the
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barrier, it changed history as we know it (from the time of the battle
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onward) to a more hostile one (in which the Klingons are at war with the
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Fed and Tasha never died). When they sent the Ent-C back through the rift.
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it fixed whatever went wrong with the Klingons/Federation, and restored the
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timeline to the one we know (including Yar being dead at the hands of the
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slime beast in a Glad Bag). So no, Yar isn't still alive these days. And
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also no, Yar didn't "never exist and thus couldn't have died due to
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slimey". *Everything* we know about the time before "YE" happened exactly
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as we saw because sending the alternate-Yar back repaired all the damage to
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time.
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Tasha dies
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---------> (B) ---------> (C)
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/
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Ent-C (A) <-------------------------
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battle \ \
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---------> (D) ---------> (E)
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Tasha doesn't die
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There is one real timeline - the one where Tasha gets killed by a mud
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monster AND where an alternative time-line Tasha has a daughter called Sela
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(apparently - I haven't seen Redemption but I think I've got the idea).
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The only alternative time-line (well, as far as Tasha is concerned) is the
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alternative one we see in Yesterday's Enterprise.
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Time for an ASCII-diagram! :
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Real timeline :
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Alt Tashsa gets
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sent back through Alt Tasha Real Tasha Alt Tasha Real Tasha Sela
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wormhole into the gives birth born dies (old killed turns up
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real timeline. to Sela. | age?) | |
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V V V V V V
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...-----------------------------------~~--------------------------------...
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<-------- Alt Tasha lives -----~~--------->
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<-------------~~------- Sela lives -------------...
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^ <-~~- Real Tasha lives ->
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+-------<---------------<-----------------<--------------+
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^
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Alternative timeline : |
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Alt Tasha
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Alt Tasha decides to go
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born through
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| wormhole
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V V
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...----------------------------------~~--------------------------------...
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<-~~- Alt Tasha lives ------>
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Yes, there are two Tashas alive at the same time, living seperate lives but
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this doesn't mean that they are constantly mucking up history. They are
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simply two seperate people - maybe they have the same DNA structure but so
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what - you can think of them as clones if you like. History wasn't even
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changed - history has always been like this. During the first season we
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saw the real Tasha walking about, but the Alternative Tasha was around as
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well, we just didn't see her.
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This is really simpler than it may look because we are dealing with
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alternative universes, not time travel as many people seem to think. Just
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to clarify this point let`s look at the Enterprise-C's history. The E-C
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starts off in the real timeline, gets transported through the wormhole into
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the alternative timeline. Then the events off Yesterday's Enterprise occur
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and the alternative Tasha decides to go back through. The E-C then returns
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to the real timeline and gets captured by the Romulans.
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This explains everything clearly and simply but it does leave two questions
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- the most obvious being "How did the alternative Guinan know that her
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timeline was wrong?", or indeed WHY did she think so? The standard
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assumption with alternative universes is that there are an infinite number
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all progressing along happily. None is more correct than any other - it is
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just that we are (for the majority of the time) being shown one particular
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timeline.
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The other problem is what was the wormhole that the 'real' timeline crew
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saw right at the beginning of Yesterday's Enterprise? According to my
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chart nothing special happens at all at that point in the real timeline.
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My theory is that the wormhole just happened to occur at the same time in
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the real timeline as it did in the alterantive one. The real Guinan then
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somehow projected her conciousness through the wormhole (not on purpose)
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and into the alternative Guinan, making her believe that everything was
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wrong. This just happened to be at the same time as the E-C came through .
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Again, if you know of any other topics that should be included in this
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list, feel free to email me at one of the addresses below. Thanks to
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everyone who contributed to this article.
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--Otto "HACK-MAN" Heuer
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