Ah, good ol’ causality.
There’s nothing better to whet a Trekkie’s appetite for a brainy, overthought conversation about rerum natura than a story about how a small change in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences in a later state.
Or, to put it in other words, that Butterfly Effect sure is fun to talk about, eh, fellow nerd? Pass the mead.”Star Trek” frequently revisits stories with themes of causality, determination, and fate (or lack thereof).
Perhaps the best known among them, at least to a newer audience, might be the alternate Kelvin timeline created for the 2009 J.J.
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