Evolving or De-Evolving as a Result of Time Travel

Tag Area: Time Travel Trope
Feature Film

Lem’s Star Diaries

Czarna komnata profesora Tarantogi

  • Professor Tarantoga's black room
  • by Stanisław Lem
  • in Noc księżycowa (Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1963) [Published as a TV script (“widowisko telewizyjne”) the year before the 1964 Polish TV broadcast.]
Professor Tarantoga saves human civilization! After using his chronopad to investigate the leading scientists and artists in history, Tarantoga concludes that without exception they are lazy drunkards. So naturally, he sends smart young people into various eras to invent differential calculus, to paint the Mona Lisa, etc.—all while a pair of police inspectors have their eye on him. —based on Wikipedia
A pencil sketch of an odd bird standing on the head of a dog-like robot with a full moon in the sky.
  • Science Fiction
  • Comedy
  • Mystery and Crime
  • Definite Time Travel
TV Episode

Star Trek (s03e23)

All Our Yesterdays

The three principal Trekkers find themselves on a planet where everyone is being evacuated to the past to escape an impending supernova. —Michael Main
Spock! You’re reverting into your ancestors, five thousand years before you were born!
In an icy cave, Leonard Nimoy (as Spock) places his hands on Mariette Harley (as Zarabeth) for a Vulcan mind meld.
  • Science Fiction
  • Definite Time Travel
Novel

Timeriders 2

Day of the Predator

A time-travel accident strands a Timeriders agent, a group of kids, and a disguised assassin in the Cretaceous era. —Gareth Gordon
Around the patches of jungle, herds of huge beasts Liam couldn't begin to name grazed lazily in the late-afternoon sun.  Between the slowly meandering groups of giants, smaller packs of fleet-footed beasts flocked and weaved in an endless zizzagging race.
'My God,' whispered Kelly. 'This is really . . . just . . . incredible.'
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  • Science Fiction
  • Audience: Young Adults
  • Definite Time Travel