RAE: In the late twenty-sixth century Captain Plant gazed out the window of her spacecraft.
LINDA: Captain Plant was thinking about all of the time she had spent being captain, and wondered if she had any regrets.
RAE: She regretted not having traveled through time a few times, but she also regretted some of the times she had traveled through time, because, no matter what you do when you try to avoid messing up the timeline, you always mess up the timeline.
LINDA: One time she went back to 1996 and bought a CD.
RAE: And that CD, well, unfortunately, it ended up being used as the most important historical document about the 1990s and it was not a great CD.
LINDA: Fortunately, one time she did bring back something that made a positive impact in history.
RAE: She was one of the first people to bring back from the future material for purifying contaminated water.
LINDA: It was a good thing because everyone was drinking orange juice the entire time.
RAE: And that was getting very expensive and killing the citrus population.
LINDA: Yes, and everyone also had diabetes.
RAE: It was not the only alternative, but your options were orange juice or alcohol, neither of which are really what you should be consuming for all of your beverages.
LINDA: Captain Plant weighed the pros and cons of her time travel and concluded that things could have turned out much worse.
Photo Credit: Foundry, “Orange Juice,” 2015