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The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass

by Frederik Pohl

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.

“The Deadly Mission of Phineas Snodgrass” by Frederik Pohl , Galaxy Magazine, June 1962.

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).