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Anno 7603

Literal: The year 7603

by Johan Herman Wessel
After lovers Julie and Leander wonder how the world would be if each other had the better qualities of the opposite gender, the fairy Feen takes them forward in time to see the effects that raising children in just that way has had.

Although the play is universally reviled for a lack of literary aspirations, it has developed a bit of a cult following as perhaps the earliest example of social science fiction (don’t pay attention to the fairy behind the curtain) and human time travel!

— Michael Main
Now my children! You wish to remake each other? Julie, you want your lover transformed into a more tender companion? And you Leander, you would rather that your Julie had a more aggressive bearing?
[ex=bare]Anno 7603 | The year 7603[/ex] by Johan Herman Wessel (Unpreformed play, 1781).

The Clockwork Man

by E. V. Odle
A peculiar man with mechanical mannerisms appears at a cricket match spouting nonsense and later causing headaches throughout the village until Dr. Allingham finally talks to him and discovers that the origin of the man with clockwork devices implanted in his head is some 8000 years in the future.
“Perhaps I ought to explain,” he continued. “You see, I’m a clockwork man.”
The Clockwork Man by E. V. Odle (William Heinemann, 1923).

The Man Who Awoke 1

The Man Who Awoke

by Laurence Manning
Upon waking from a long sleep of three millennia, Norman Winters finds himself in the world of AD 5000 (more or less). Humanity staggers to save itself amid the world's littered, stagnant wreckage after what has become known as the great Age of Waste. There is a political rivalry between the younger generation opposing the older generation's proposed waste of resources that they (the younger generation) assert that they are entitled to.
— based on Wikipedia
Down in my lead-walled room I shall drink my special drug and fall into a coma which would on the surface of the earth last (at most) a few hours. But down there, shielded from all change, I shall never wake until I am again subjected to radiation.
“The Man Who Awoke” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] March 1933.

The Man Who Awoke 2

Master of the Brain

by Laurence Manning
After a second long sleep, Norman Winters wakes around AD 10,000. The world is dominated by the Brain, an inexorable super computer that knows all, sees all, and feels nothing. Thanks to its cradle-to-grave supervision, human life is easy and comfortable, but what will happen when the Brain realizes people are superfluous?
— based on Wikipedia
Certainly. . . . the Great Brain is infallible. Who would want to act contrary to reason?
“Master of the Brain” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] April 1933.

The Man Who Awoke 3

The City of Sleep

by Laurence Manning
Another long sleep for Norman Winters and another world, this time circa AD 15,000. People can now program their choice of dreams and sleep their lives away, so much so that the sleeping outnumber the living, and Winters needs help to stop the implosion of civilization.
— based on Wikipedia
Take our own single city, for the rest of the world is about the same, if not worse, how many people are alive . . . er . . . really alive and awake? Just four hundred and thirty by the last count. And these few people must feed themselves andprovide electrical energy and control the dream records for more than one million sleepers!
“The City of Sleep” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] May 1933.

The Man Who Awoke 4

The Individualists

by Laurence Manning
Another long sleep brings Norman Winters to sometime around AD 20,000 where each individual has his own mobile city that provided for all his needs.
— based on Wikipedia
“Yes. You called them cities,” she explained, “and that is essentially what this is. You had many thousands of people in each city, it is true—I suppose you could not afford many cities?—while we have a city for every inhabitant. But otherwise they are, I should imagine, much the same.”
“The Individualists” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] June 1933.

The Man Who Awoke 5

The Elixir

by Laurence Manning
One last sleep takes Norman Winters to about AD 25,000 where scientists have discovered to secret of immortality. But is Mankind ready for it? Immortality is frightfully boring without a purpose. Humanity scatters to the far corners of the cosmos seeking knowledge and experience, leading to a quest toward the meaning of it all.
— based on Wikipedia
We must make him young again—what a chance to try out the full cell-cycle!
“The Elixir” by Laurence Manning, Wonder Stories,[/em] August 1933.

The Land Where Time Stood Still

by Arthur Leo Zagat
Twentieth-century American Ronald Stratton and Arthurian damsel Elaise find themselves in a land with people from all ages as well as predators from the 400th century.

This may be the earliest use of something akin to a “wheel of time.”

Time’s all mixed up. It’s as if the universe were the rim of a great wheel, whirling through Time. As if, somehow, we have left that rim, shot inward along different spokes whose outer ends are different years, far apart, and reached the wheel’s axis where all the year-spokes join. The center point of the hub, that doesn’t move at all through Time, because it is the center. Where there is no Time. Where the past and the present and the future are all one. A land, in some weird other dimension, where Time stands still.
“The Land Where Time Stood Still” by Arthur Leo Zagat, Thrilling Wonder Stories, August 1936.

Sands of Time 2

Coils of Time

by P. Schuyler Miller
You’ll need some patience with “Coils of Time," seeing as how it takes the hero, Rutherford Bohr Adams, twenty-some pages before you’ll realize that the story is a sequel to “The Sands of Time,” and it’s going to fall to space pilot Adams to travel through the 60-million-year coils of times into the future and the past, saving Earth from the evil Martians and their zombies, while also saving his own boss’s beautiful daughter from a fate worth than death.
— Michael Main
It’s another form of the space-time field that I use in the Egg to bridge the gap between the coils of time.
“Coils of Time” by P. Schuyler Miller, Astounding Science-Fiction, May 1939.

Tomorrow and Tomorrow

by Ray Bradbury
When a typewriter appears on the floor of his boarding room and begins typing messages from the future, down-on-his-luck Steve Temple thinks it must be his old jokester friend Harry—but he’s wrong about that, and the fate of the world 500 years down the line now depends on what Steve does about a recently elected man. “Tomorrow and Tomorrow” doesn’t have the notoriety of that other Bradbury story about time travel and an elected official, but even though this one’s riddled with ridiculous ideas on time, it does accurately predict text messaging!
— Michael Main
Sorry. Not Harry. Name is Ellen Abbot. Female. 26 years old. Year 2442. Five feet ten inches tall. Blonde hair, blue eyes—semantician and dimensional research expert. Sorry. Not Harry.
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow” by Ray Bradbury, in Fantastic Adventures, May 1947.

Tales of Tomorrow (s01e37)

All the Time in the World

by unknown writers and Arthur C. Clarke, directed by Don Medford
The skilled robber is now Henry Judson and his target is now the New York Metropolitan Museum, but the plot essentials remain largely the same as in Clarke’s earlier story: Use the time traveler’s foolproof plan to rob the museum.
— Michael Main
Within this five-foot circle, time is speeded up to an almost unbelievable pace. But the world outside the circle remains unchanged.
“All the Time in the World” by unknown writers and Arthur C. Clarke, directed by Don Medford (ABC-TV, USA,13 June 1952).

Return of the Moon Man

by E. L. Malpass
During a surprise trip to the moon by Grandpa, Grandma is mad about being left behind and leaves town with another man with a time machine. Grandpa returns, finds another time machine, and strands Grandma in time and space.
— Dave Hook
We got the meal ready, and then someone said, “Where is Grandfather?”
“Return of the Moon Man” by E. L. Malpass, in The Observer, 2 January 1955.

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Time Patrol

by Poul Anderson
In the first of a long series of hallowed stories, former military engineer (and noncomformist) Manse Everard is recruited by the Time Patrol to prevent time travelers from making major changes to history. (Don’t worry, history bounces back from the small stuff.)
— Michael Main
If you went back to, I would guess, 1946, and worked to prevent your parents’ marriage in 1947, you would still have existed in that year; you would not go out of existence just because you had influenced events. The same would apply even if you had only been in 1946 one microsecond before shooting the man who would otherwise have become your father.
“Time Patrol” by Poul Anderson, Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, May 1955.

The End of Eternity

by Isaac Asimov
Andrew Harlan, Technician in the everwhen of Eternity, falls in love and starts a chain of events that could lead to the end of everything.
— Michael Main
He had boarded the kettle in the 575th Century, the base of operations assigned to him two years earlier. At the time the 575th had been the farthest upwhen he had ever traveled. Now he was moving upwhen to the 2456th Century.
The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov (Doubleday, August 1955).

Journey into Mystery #28

They Wouldn’t Believe Him!

by unknown writers and Pete Tumlinson
To escape a forced marriage, a woman in the future tries to disappear into the pase, but her fiance tracks her down.
— Michael Main
I’ll marry you, Everest! But first may I go on a short time-vacation?
“They Wouldn’t Believe Him!” by unknown writers and Pete Tumlinson, in Journey into Mystery #28 (Atlas Comics, November1955).

Journey into Mystery #40

The Question That Can’t Be Answered!

by an unknown writer and John Forte
Reporter Ned Parker tries to expose a fraudulent hypnotist, but instead he ends up being hypnotized and sent into his look-alike descendant 500 years in the future.
— Michael Main
It was Ned who fell under the hypnotic trance . . . and Ned who responded to the commands of Jiminez!
“The Question That Can’t Be Answered!” by an unknown writer and John Forte, in Journey into Mystery #40 (Atlas Comics, November 1956).

MUgwump Four

by Robert Silverberg
Oh, dear! Albert Miller has dialed a wrong number on the Mugwump-4 exchange, and the mutants who answered have decided that the only solution is to catapult him into the future where he won’t be able to upset their plans for World Domination.
— Michael Main
At this stage in our campaign, we can take no risks. You’ll have to go. Prepare the temporal centrifuge, Mordecai.
“Mugwump Four” by Robert Silverberg, Galaxy Magazine, August 1959.

Unusual Tales #26

Where Is Amelia?

by Joe Gill [?], Bill Molno, and Vince Alascia
At a happenin’ party, a beatnik puts Amelia into a trance, sending her to, like, the the 25th century!
— Michael Main
Sleep, chick, sleep deep! You will like go into another world. A world without squares. A world where everyone is like real sweep people!
“Where Is Amelia?” by Joe Gill [?], Bill Molno, and Vince Alascia, Unusual Tales #26 (Charlton Comics, February 1961).

Farnham’s Freehold

by Robert A. Heinlein
Hugh Farnam makes good preparations for his family to survive a nuclear holocaust, but are the preparations good enough to survive a trip to the future?

In his blog, Fred Pohl wrote about how Heinlein’s agent gave permission for Pohl publish the novel in If and to cut “five or ten thousand words in the beginning that were argumentative, extraneous and kind of boring” (and Pohl agreed to pay full rate for the cut words). But apparently, Heinlein “went ballistic” when he saw the first installment, so much so that when the book appeared as a separate publication, Heinlein made sure people knew who was responsible for the previous cuts by adding a note* that “A short version of this novel, as cut and revised by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If Magazine.”

* The version of Heinlein’s note that Pohl recalled was much funnier than Heinlein’s actual note in our timeline, but sadly, we have lost track of where we saw Pohl’s version.

— Michael Main
Because the communists are realists. They never risk a war that would hurt them, even if they could win. So they won’t risk one they can’t win.
Farnham’s Freehold by Robert A. Heinlein (G. P. Putnam’s Sons, October 1964).

Avengers #11, December 1964

The Mighty Avengers Meet Spider-Man

by Stan Lee, Don Heck, and Chic Stone
This story is as close as Spidey ever got to time traveling in the Silver Age. He didn’t travel himself, but he did meet and battle Kang’s time traveling Spider-Man robot. On top of that, Don Heck gave us his interpretations of Ditko art taken from the pages of the Amazing Spider-Man Annual #1. Can you tell which is which?
Spider-Man! Well, much obliged to you, fella! I never knew you were so . . . cooperative!
“The Mighty Avengers Meet Spider-Man” by Stan Lee, Don Heck, and Chic Stone, in The Avengers 11, December 1964.

October the First Is Too Late

by Fred Hoyle
Dick, a composer, and his boyhood friend John, now an eminent scientist, find themselves in a patchwork world of different times from classical Greece to a far future that humanity barely survives.

My favorable impression is no doubt reflective of the time when I read it (the summer of 1970, nearly 13, while moving from Washington State to Alabama). Perhaps the fiction doesn’t hold up as well decades later up, but the issues of time that it brings up still interest me and it was my first exposure to the idea of a geographic timeslip. And, similar to Asimov, Hoyle served to cultivate my interest in the natural sciences.

— Michael Main
To the Reader: The “science” in this book is mostly scaffolding for the story, story-telling in the traditional sense. However, the discussions of the significance of time and the meaning of consciousness are intended to be quite serious, as also are the contents of chapter fourteen. —from Hoyle’s preface
October the First Is Too Late by Fred Hoyle (William Heinemann, 1966).

Past Master

by R. A. Lafferty
Thomas More is brought from the 16th century to the 26th in a time machine to save the world.
— Fred Galvin
We are trying to find a new sort of leader who can slow, even reverse, the break-up, Paul. We’ve selected a man from the Earth Past, Thomas More. We will present him to the people only as the Thomas, or perhaps, to be more fanciful, as the Past Master. You know of him?
Past Master by R. A. Lafferty (Ace Books, 1968).

Space Chantey

by R. A. Lafferty
Lafferty rewrites The Odyssey with a time machine, called a Dong Button, featured in Chapters 3 and 4.
— Fred Galvin
The Dong button was just that, a big green button with the word Dong engraved on it. You pushed it, and it went dong. Well, that was alnost too simple. Should there not be a deeper reason for it? And the small instruction plate over it didn't add much. It read: “Wrong prong, bong gong.”
Space Chantey by R. A. Lafferty, in Ace Double #H-56: Pity about Earth by Ernest Hill / Space Chantey by R. A. Lafferty (Ace Books, 1968).

The Voyages of Ijon Tichy 20

Podróż dwudziesta

English release: The Twentieth Voyage Literal: Journey twenty

by Stanisław Lem
After the time mish-mash of Ijon Tichy’s seventh voyage, it wasn’t clear whether Ijon would ever ply the channels of time again, but here he is, traveling back in time to persuade himself to go forward in time and take up the helm of THEOHIPPIP—a.k.a. Teleotelechronistic-Historical Engineering to Optimize the Hyoerputerized Implementation of Paleological Programming and Interplanetary Planning. It takes a few attempts for older Ijon to convince younger Ijon to head to the future on a one-man chronocykl, but when he does, the younger Ijon begins the unexpectedly hard task of righting history’s wrongs. As a sophisticated time traveler yourself, you’ll spot what’s happening early on, while you also get a tour of history from the formamtion of the Solar System to the extinction of the dinosaurs and the paintings of Hieronymus Bosch. You’ll also recognize the fun Lem has at the expense of the bureaucracies of mid-20th-century Poland.
— Michael Main
Zresztą Bosch nie powstrzymał się od niedyskrecji. W „Ogrodzie uciech ziemskich,” w „piekle muzycznym” (prawe skrzydło tryptyku) stoi w samym środku dwunastoosobowy chronobus. I co miałem z tym robić?
Even so, Bosch couldn’t refrain from certain indiscretions. In the “Garden of Earthly Delights,” in the very center of the “Musical Hell” (the right wing of the triptych), stands a twelve-seat chronobus. Not a thing I could do about it.
English
[ex=bare]“Podróż dwudziesta” | Journey twenty[/ex] by Stanisław Lem, in Dzienniki gwiazdowe, expanded third edition, by Stanisław Lem, (Czytelnik, 1971).

Escape from the Planet of the Apes

by Paul Dehn, directed by Don Taylor
Among the original Apes movies, only this one had true time travel; the others involved only relativistic time dilation, which (as even Dr. Milo knows) is technically not time travel. But in this one, Milo, Cornelius, and Zira are blown back to the time of the original astronauts (given the violence of the explosion, we’re going to call it a time rift) and are persecuted in a 70s made-for-TV manner.
— Michael Main
Given the power to alter the future, have we the right to use it?
Escape from the Planet of the Apes by Paul Dehn, directed by Don Taylor (premiered at an unknown movie theater, Los Angeles, 26 May 1971).

Topolino #911

Zio Paperone e la scorribanda nei secoli

English release: Money is the Root of Upheaval Literal: Uncle Scrooge and the scavenger gang through the centuries

by Jerry Siegel, Romano Scarpa, and Sandro Del Conte
After waking an Egyptian pharaoh from a millennia-long sleep, Uncle Scrooge summons Donald and Gearloose, eventually realizing that they can restore the pharoah to his rightful throne via a trip to ancient Egypt in Gearloose’s not-quite-finished time machine. That doesn’t go quite as planned, and on the way home, they manage to turn the future into a money-mint-land or somnethin’?.
— based on Duck Comics Revue
Il veicolo aveva bisogno di una messa a punto! Comunque, siamo sulla “strada” giusta! Tenetevi forte!
Keep your seat belts buckled at all times! In the unlikely event of a water landing, your seat cushion doubles as a flotation device.
English
[ex=bare]“Zio Paperone e la scorribanda nei secoli” | Uncle Scrooge and the scavenger gang through the centuries[/ex] by Jerry Siegel, Romano Scarpa, and Sandro Del Conte, Topolino [Mickey Mouse] #911 (Mondadori, 13 May 1973).

The Pursuit of the Pankera

by Robert A. Heinlein
The 2020 posthumous publication of this 1977 manscript shows us Heinlein’s first forey into the multiperson solipsism of semi-mad scientist Jake Burroughs, his beautiful daughter Deety, her strong love interest Zeb Carter, Hilda Corners and their time/dimension-traveling ship Gay Deceiver. In all, the earlier manuscript has three adventures that were significantly changed in his eventual 1980 publication of the work, retitled as The Number of the Beast:
  1. In Pankera, the Mars Ten actually is Barsoom where the gang meets the Princess of Mars and others, while in Beast, Mars Ten is a relatively boring futuristic British Mars.
  2. Pankera has a long adventure in the Lensman universe, while Beast has only a few pages.
  3. Pankera’s ending is a 30-page, rushed description of how they plan to launch a major war against the Panki, while Beast’s 130-page ending takes the gang to the universe of Dora and Lazurus Long where they rescue Maureen from the past and are joined by a passel of Heinlein’s characters.
In both books, Gay Deceiver can clearly travel through any one of three time axes at will, although that ability is largely ignored apart from Maureen’s rescue in Beast. Because of this, we had a fierce debate up in the ITTDB Citadel about whether to even include Pankera in the database. In the end, we decided yes, marking it as the parent work of Beast, but on account of no easily recognizable time travel, we also marked it as having only debatable time travel.
— Michael Main
Sharpie, you have just invented multiperson solipsism. I didn’t think that was mathematically possible.
Six-Six-Six by Robert A. Heinlein, unpublished, 1977.

The Day Time Ended

by Wayne Schmidt, J. Larry Carroll, and David Schmoeller, directed by John “Bud” Cardos
After an hour or so of mundane conversation and weird happenings—a triple supernova, a UFO, a tiny mannequin/alien, and creepy lights, and alien monsters transporting in and out—the Williams family and their horses are transported through a time-space warp to an unknown time for the other twenty minutes of the movie. (The creepy lights stick around, too.) It’s hard to tell for sure, but I think they’re going to live out their lives amongst the weird lights and crystal structures of this new time.
— Michael Main
Steve, you know what this is, don’t cha? It’s a time-space warp.
The Day Time Ended by Wayne Schmidt, J. Larry Carroll, and David Schmoeller, directed by John “Bud” Cardos (Paris Festival of Fantastic Films, circa March 1979).

The Number of the Beast

by Robert A. Heinlein
Semi-mad scientist Jake Burroughs, his beautiful daughter Deety, her strong love interest Zeb Carter, Hilda Corners (“Aunt Hilda” if you prefer) and their time/dimension-traveling ship Gay Deceiver yak and smooch their way though many time periods in many universes (including that of Lazurus Long), soon realizing the true nature of the world as pantheistic multiperson solipsism.

In Heinlein’s first version of this novel, written in 1977, the middle third of the story takes place on Barsoom, but in the 1980 published version, Barsoom was replaced by a futuristic British Mars

— Michael Main
Sharpie, you have just invented multiperson solipsism. I didn’t think that was mathematically possible.
The Number of the Beast by Robert A. Heinlein (Fawcett Columbine, 1980).

Timestalkers

by Brian Clemens, directed by Michael Schultz
After the death of his wife and child, Dr. Scott McKenzie stumbles upon a tintype photograph from the Old West showing three corpses, a shooter, and a modern Magnum 357, leading him to develop a theory of time travel that is confirmed when a beautiful woman from the future appears and takes him back to the Old West to chase the shooter, save President Cleveland, and pursue other obvious plot developments.

Spoiler: At the end, I believe that Georgia uses her time crystal to send Scott back for a do-over on the day of his family’s death. This is disappointing since up until that point, the film has set up a perfect example of a single, nonbranching timeline.

— Michael Main
What if Cole came back to set off a chain of events that would eventually destroy the one man who stood in his way?
Timestalkers by Brian Clemens, directed by Michael Schultz (CBS-TV, USA, 10 March 1987).

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e06)

Where No One Has Gone Before

by Diane Duane and Michael Reaves
Yes, we see minor time phenomena when Picard and other members of the crew vividly experience moments and beings from their pasts, possibly created by their thoughts, but the real import of the episode is the introduction of The Traveler, who among other things is able to alter spacetime and is always on the lookout for promising individuals such as Wesley Crusher.
— Michael Main
The Traveler to Picard about Wesley: In such musical geniuses I saw in one of your ship’s libraries—one called Mozart, who as a small child wrote astonishing symphonies, a genius who made music not only to be heard, but seen and felt beyond the understanding, the ability of others. Wesley is such a person, not with music, but with the equally lovely intricacies of time, energy, propulsion, and the instruments of this vessel, which allow all that to be played . . .
Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e06), “Where No One Has Gone Before” by Diane Duane and Michael Reaves (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 24 October 1987) [syndicated].

The Time Guardian

by John Baxter and Brian Hannant, directed by Brian Hannant
When terminatoresque cyborgs attack a future Australian city (headed by Quantum Leap’s favorite scoundrel, Dean Stockwell, and defended by everyone’s favorite princess, Carrie Fisher), the scientists take them all back to 1988—a fine plan until the evil cyborgs follow.
— Michael Main
One city attempted to escape their onslaught by unraveling the secrets of time and travelling back in a desperate search for a safer age . . . they succeeded and time was their friend until the arrival yet again of their relentless enemy.
The Time Guardian by John Baxter and Brian Hannant, directed by Brian Hannant (at movie theaters, Australia, 3 December 1987).

Red Dwarf (s01e01)

The End

by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, directed by Ed Bye
In this pilot episode, menial worker Dave Lister on the spaceship Red Dwarf finds himself three million years in the future after accidentally overstaying his time in a stasis room where time does not exist. In contrast to a long sleep or cryogenics, traveling via stasis is actual time travel.
— Michael Main
The stasis room creates a static field of time. Just as x-rays can’t pass through lead, time cannot penetrate a stasis field. So although you exist, you no longer exist in time, and for you, time itself does not exist.
Red Dwarf (s01e01), “The End” by Rob Grant and Doug Naylor, directed by Ed Bye (BBC Two, UK, 15 Febrary 1988).

Bill & Ted I

Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure

by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, directed by Stephen Herek
The Two Great Ones, Bill S. Preston, Esq., and Ted “Theodore” Logan, are the subjects of time-traveler Rufus’s mission, but instead they end up using his machine to write a history report to save their band, Wyld Stallyns.
— Michael Main
Most excellent!
Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, directed by Stephen Herek (at movie theaters, USA, 17 February 1989).

Millennium

by John Varley, directed by Michael Anderson
Cheryl Ladd plays Louise Baltimore opposite Kris Kristopherson’s Bill Smith in this movie adaptation of Varley’s novel (1983), although on-screen credit is given only to his earlier short story “Air Raid” (1977).
— Michael Main
For one thing, paradoxes can occur. Say you build a time machine, go backwards in time and murder your father when he was ten years old. That means you were never born. And if you were never born, how did you build the time machine? Paradox! It's the possibility of wiping out your own existence that makes most people rule out time-travel. Still, why not? If you were careful, you could do it.
Millennium by John Varley, directed by Michael Anderson (at movie theaters, West Germany, 24 August 1989).

Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e01-02)

Encounter at Farpoint

by D. C. Fontana
As the new captain of the Enterprise and other new members of his crew become acquainted with their galaxy class starship and its capabilities, they travel to a curious city on Deneb IV and also encounter a powerful being from the Q who, among other things, exhibits a possible power over time itself.
— Michael Main
Troi: Captain, sir, this is not an illusion of a dream.
Picard: But these courts belong in the past.
Troi:I don’t understand either, but this is real.
Star Trek: The Next Generation (s01e01-02), “Encounter at Farpoint” by D. C. Fontana (Paramount Domestic Television, USA, 28 September 1987) [syndicated].

Bill & Ted II

Bill & Ted’s Bogus Journey

by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, directed by Peter Hewitt
Two Evil Robots from the future are out to destroy Bill & Ted and their babes. After all that, the Two Great Ones begin a journey that starts with Death and ends with Two Little Ones.
— Michael Main
Look, after we get away from this guy, we use the booth. We time travel back to before the concert and set up the things we need to get him now.
Bill and Ted’s Bogus Journey by Chris Matheson and Ed Solomon, directed by Peter Hewitt (at movie theaters, USA, 19 July 1991).

Sailor Moon (s02e36)

未来への旅立ち!時空回廊の戦い

Mirai e no tabidachi! Jikū kairō no tatakai English release: Journey to the Future: Battle in the Space-Time Corridor Literal: Departure for the future! Battle of the space-time corridor

by Sumisawa Katsuyuki, directed by Kosaka Harume
Sailor Moon and the gang travel to the Door of Space and Time where they hope to head to the future and rescue Chibiusa’s mommy. Sailor Pluto opens the Space-Time Door for them, which takes them to Planet Crystal Tokyo and a slew of baddies. Their adventure in the future is continued in the next few episodes, but we haven’t yet indexed those.
— Michael Main
So this is the Space-Time Corridor.
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SpongeBob SquarePants [s1:e14A]

SB-129

by Aaron Springer, Erik Wiese, and Mr. Lawrence, directed by Aarpm Springer et al.
The first of SpongeBob’s family to foray into time was Squidward, whose accidental cryofreeze took him two millennia into the future. Of course, even primitive sponges know that that was not actual time travel, but future-SpongeTrons point the six-limbed cephalopod to a time machine that took him on two actual time travel trips before returning him to his own time. No, we don’t know whether one of the future SpongeTrons is SB-129, but we do note that the production code for this episode was 2515-129.
— Inmate Jan
Well, why didn’t ya just ask? The time machine is down the hall and to the left.
“SB-129” by Aaron Springer, Erik Wiese, and Mr. Lawrence, directed by Aarpm Springer et al., from SpongeBob SquarePants [s01e14A], Nickelodeon (USA, 31 December 1999).

Iterations

by William H. Keith, Jr.
An accident near a black hole has seemingly doomed Kevyn Shalamarn along with her copilot and her AI, until they are pulled into a far future that could have been inspired by Frank Tipler’s Omega Point cosmology. The trip to the future seems to be in the domain of relativistic time dilation rather than time travel, and it’s unclear whether the trip back is actual time travel or some form of quantum physics mashed up with simulations.
— Michael Main
The goal of this device is nothing less than complete knowledge, knowledge of everything that ever has been, that ever will be, that ever could be.
“Iterations” by William H. Keith, Jr., in Past Imperfect, edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Larry Segriff (DAW Books, October 2001).

The Treehouse #5

The 65-Storey Treehouse

by Andy Griffiths (story) and Terry Denton (art)
Each installment of Andy and Terry’s Treehouse series sees the house grow upward, but what if the house never had a proper building permit? No problem, if you’ve got a time machine in a wheelie trash bin! Caution: Important detours along the way may be necessary to save antkind and The Time Machine.
— Michael Main
“Don’t you see?” says Terry. “We’ll just travel back in time and get a permit for the treehouse.”
The 65-Storey Treehouse by Andy Griffiths (story) and Terry Denton (art) (Macmillan Australia, August 2015).

Star Trek

The Many and the Few

by Wendy Welcott
Spock travels back and forth through time to save the Federation.
— Michael Main
Peering into the murky abyss, Spock saw something he had never seen before: a window, a portal to that other world, not a vision, not a light, but a feeling, a feeling he didn’t understand—wonderment.
The Many and the Few by Wendy Welcott, submission to Star Trek’s To Boldly Go Script Competition, 16 February 2016.

Invictus

by Ryan Graudin
After Farway Gaius McCarthy fails his final examination at the Central Time Travelers Academy, he puts together a rogue time travel crew to swipe valuable artifacts from the past at moments when they won’t be missed. And it’s all roses until a mysterious girl sidetracks them on the Titanic and steers them into a multiverse of fading timelines.

As you might guess, we enjoyed Far and his friends, but the thing that sealed an Eloi Bronze Medal was the fact that when a particular timeline actually managed to branch (not an easy feat) and the traveler then jumped to the future, she found her another self—the her that was born on that timeline—waiting for her. Most branching timeline stories ignore this issue entirely.

— Michael Main
“There’s nothing to return to.” Eliot’s knuckles bulged at the seams, but she didn’t yell. “When the Fade destroys a moment, it’s lost. Forever.”
Invictus by Ryan Graudin (Little, Brown, September 2017).

Star Trek: Picard, Season 2

by multiple writers and directors
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.
Star Trek: Picard, Season 2 by multiple writers and directors (Paramount+, 3 March 2022 to 5 May 2022).
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