I've been watching Sci Fi for forty years, and have got my head around convoluted and weird concepts.
Even allowing for the fact it's a work of fiction I can't get my head around this story.
The Moon duplicated, then goes back to a future Earth, and meet another set of Alphans!!
What happens to the two moons at the end? Do the other Alphans carry on living?
I NEED HELP WITH THIS ONE
The concept of Regina possessing two brains is idiotic.
But basically it's a good episode, mysterious, though to say the least.
A space phenomenon splits the moon into two seperate entities and sends them on the same course to a future Earth. The "real" Alphans arrive in a few days, then discover that the duplicate moon had entered a time warp, having been there for five years already.
For some reason the duplicates knew the originals would arrive in time. And
for some reason the duplicate Bergman knows that when the moons collide, the Alphans will all go back to being singular entities. At the end even the Alphans don't know whether or not their duplicates still existed.
One of the points of season one was that not everything that happens in the universe is meant to be understood.
Thanks for the reply but it's still a puzzle that makes little sense.
Surely it's the real Alphans who have gone through a time warp as it doesn't take them five years to get to Earth. The duplicates went the long way round and lived the five years.
Since episode 1 the moon has been travelling away from Earth but the duplication /warp thing lands them right back at Earth all be it in a desolate future.
The only explanation that is logically consistent is God.
This cop out was used in "The Black Sun" and maybe here God wishes the Alphans to have their wishes of a home realized but at the same time give them a choice to carry on wandering, so created two versions.
It would seem more logical if the "real" Alphans had been the ones to have gone through a time warp, but who knows? On "Death's Other Dominion" Bergman hypothesized that possibllity with the Thulians - "Either they or we have passed through some sort of time warp."
As far as "God" guiding the moon, the official term would be "Mysterious Unknown Force". It was theorized that Arra on "Collision Course" may have been the source of it, but we never found out.
"Another Time, Another Place" was certainly the most mysterious episode of the entire series, but I never looked at it as a bad thing. Season one stories weren't meant to have cut-and-dried explanations in the way of Star Trek.
I've been watching Sci Fi for forty years, and have got my head around convoluted and weird concepts.Ha! You know I was thinking about the part with Regina having two brains...and how Johnny Byrne, the principle writer for the episode Another Time, Another Place vociferously protested against that corruption of his original plot point being added into the shooting script. I think, at the most, he meant for Regina to be having cerebral activity AS IF she was receiving two sets of data...and thus her singular brain was being used-up as if it were two. But that gets into the problem of having multiple hands in the writing of tv episodes. Original, solid concepts get muddled in order to accommodate dramatic and practical needs.
Even allowing for the fact it's a work of fiction I can't get my head around this story.
The Moon duplicated, then goes back to a future Earth, and meet another set of Alphans!!
What happens to the two moons at the end? Do the other Alphans carry on living?
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