Star-Crossed
- by Deborah Pratt, directed by Mark Sobel
- TV Episode
- Science Fiction
- Adults
- Definite Time Travel
- English
- “Star-Crossed” by Deborah Pratt, directed by Mark Sobel (NBC-TV, USA, 31 March 1989).
Why would anybody leap into English Professor Gerald Bryant during June 1972? Sam is certain that his mission is to he can reconcile his own future quantum physicist girlfriend with her father so that her fear of commitment won’t cause her to leave Sam at the alter in another twelve years.
—Michael Main
Don’t ya see, Al? I’m here to give Donna and I a second chance.
Tags
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- Time Periods
- Circa AD 1970 to 1999: destination date
- Time Travel Methods
- Time Tethers: with an uncooperative retrieval mechanism
- Themes
- Ex Nihilo Obects and People: Some of Sam's future knowledge of time travel may have been passed on to Donna Elesee, which was then passed back to him in the future.
- Identity Illusion
- Incorporeal Traveler: Al
- Touched by a Time Traveler: Stop Jamie Lee from making a mistake in her love life.
- Real-World Tags
- Watergate: Sam causes the Watergate break-in to be discovered, but it was not intentional and therefore not a causal loop.
- Groupings
Variants
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- “Star-Crossed” by Deborah Pratt, directed by Mark Sobel (NBC-TV, USA, 31 March 1989).