September 26, 2025: Choose your mode of Sci-Fi travel!

Choose one and tell me why:
– Time Travel
– Multiverse Travel
– Dimensional Travel
– Interstellar Travel

Interstellar Travel is the stuff of classic sci-fi, like Star Trek and Stargate, and while this is a speculative exercise, the likelihood of encountering alien life over weeks, months, even years (if at all) is highly unlikely. Not so bad if you can step through the gate and be back home by bedtime, but even the merest of ship-board five year missions would risk making me loopy if I wasn’t seeing any action.

Time Travel, on the other hand, is an even older sci-fi chestnut that, theoretically, offers opportunities for great fun. As some have mentioned, who wouldn’t seize the possibility of being reunited with a lost loved one? But when you get into the mechanics of time travel, you start having to deal with the possibility of paradoxes and start worrying about how your actions could screw up the timeline, potentially landing you back in a horribly altered present where people wear their socks OVER their shoes. Of course it all depends on the theory of time travel you subscribe to but I would argue that if you’re an adherent of the branching timeline theory, then we’re getting into…

Multiverse Travel – Wherein we journey along the road not taken, perhaps a past in which the Roman Empire never fell or a timeline where those ref-abetted cheater Patriots never won all those Super Bowls. Past, present, or future, paradoxes no longer apply since it’s not YOUR reality you’re screwing with so why the hell not?

Dimensional Travel – Rarely explored in sci-fi, but when it is (Event Horizon, Annihilation, Stranger Things), it’s usually pretty damn horrific. This choice is, I’d argue, the easiest way to induce psychosis.

So I’m going Multiverse.

And you?

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