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Originally posted by Max the Mug
The story plays through, it's not really important, suffice to say they end up bringing Arthur Conan Doyle (I think, it's not really important) forward in time to the Enterprise.
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I shouldn't know this, because I'm no longer a Trekkie, but it was actually Samuel Clements (IE Mark Twain). I still have detailed memories of when I was a nerd...
Here's a shorter paradoxical idea that I thought up a while back:
Suppose you were to go back in time and visit a famous writer. Let's say J.R.R. Tolkein (at the time I thought it up, I though Shakespeare, or Homer, but now I realise that neither of those would work, because they both adapted existing legends instead of direct writing). You visit Tolkein when he was young, before he began thinking about Middle Earth, and tell him about this great idea you have for a story that he should write. You tell him the plot of the Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings (and all that other shit). You get him to make detailed notes as you speak. You insist that he passes the work off as his own. You even dictate a few passages, so that he gets the feel of the atmosphere. Then, you leave him, and return to our time period. As far as History is concerned, nothing has changed. For all we know, that may have been the way it had happened anyway...
The question is: Whose idea
was the Lord of the Rings? Tolkein got the idea off you, but you only got the idea from him in the first place, but then he got that idea off you, etc...