Fix Someone Else’s Timeline Wreckage!

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Short Story

The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass

This cautionary tale about Snodgras—time traveler who brought modern-day healthcare back to the Roman Empire—originally appeared as an essay in the editorial pages of Pohl’s [⁠Galaxy[/em] along with a nod to L. Sprague de Camp’s Lest Darkness Fall, but it’s since made its way into more than one story compilation. —Michael Main
Snodgrass decided to make the Roman world healthy and to keep its people alive through 20th century medicine.
A probe with four large panels at right angles and a green exhast approaches the Horsehead Nebula.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Time and Time Again

Hugh Stanton is recruited by cadre of Cambridge professors to use Isaac Newton’s technology to fix the past 111 years starting the the 1914 assassination of  Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
 
—Michael Main
‘Tell me, Mr. Bentley,’ Newton asked, staring at the dregs in his wine glass, which was empty once more, ‘if God gave you the chance to change one thing in history, would you do it? And if so, what would you change?’
Clocks, newspapers and a man with his back to us, dressed in a tweed suit and fedora.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Season

Star Trek: Picard, Season 2

  • by multiple writers and directors
  • (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022)
After a catastrophic start to Season 2, Q steps in to pluck Picard’s crew and the Borg Queen from certain death only to insert them into a dystopian timeline that Q himself had created via a small change in 2024. —Michael Main
Time? Of course, that’s how he did it. This is not another reality—this is our reality. He went back in time and changed the present.
Black-and-white photo of old Patrick Steward (as Jean-Luc Picard) standing in from of old John de Lancie (as Q).
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel