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Terminator And Star Trek Are The Yin And Yang Of Time Travel [Time Travel]

io9.com » 2008 » July » 3rd » Terminator And Star Trek Are The Yin And Yang Of Time Travel [Time Travel]

Tagged: mcg, star trek, top, time travel, j j abrams, terminator, terminator 4, dystopian futures, dystopias, timelag, utopias

Star Trek and Terminator often feature the same time-travel story: someone journeys back in time from the future. The only difference is, in Trek, our heroes are usually arriving from a shining paradise, while the Terminator franchise always shows people fleeing the shattered ruins of Earth. Whether they come from a dystopia or a utopia determines how our heroes view the past they arrive at … Continue Reading »

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