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Quick question: in the show I know it mentions that Tempus is from the 22(23?) century (please correct me on which number that is). Does it ever mention when, as in abllpark range, Utopia was created?

Just curious... Too tired and swamped to look it up myself, but it's driving me bonkers.

From Tempus Fugitive:

And:

So, I believe it was some time in the twenty-one century, but afraid there isn't not an accurate date.

By the way, sometimes I have to agree with Tempus. What kind of society was that? A bunch of new hippies that worship their founders and spend their time obsessing about them and brainwashing the children to perpetuate the cult? How did Lois Lane's brood come to this? It seems they took some ideals too far.

Maybe somebody can write the Chronicles of Utopia, telling how it came to be.

Andreia

As I see it, maybe Wells landed in the 23rd century assylum, "Utopia". Tempus is crazy after all and only tried to destroy Utopia because his medications weren't working. Tempus is bored and frustrated with Utopia because the assylum IS boring.

On the other hand, Wells received an overdose of peace and harmony by mistake and made it to his time machine before the error was discovered, leaving him convinced that Utopia represents the future for everyone.

Everyone else in the 23rd century lives quite normal lives.

Thanks for the info, guys!

Maybe I am... I'm kind of doing a later Utopia thing though, so I have it in the early/mid 23rd century, which I assume will work with this. I just wanted to double check for mentioning it.

Huh. Interesting theory. Perhaps Wells took some of Tempus' happy meds, making Tempus start to lose it again and Wells believe firmly in this utopian world...

Then again, maybe time travel itself is bad for the human mind. Maybe beyond a certain time displacement your brain starts to go, in terms another time travel story used, "a little caca". Forward induces euphoria and backward does other stuff. L&C only went a little over 100 years back and weren't gone that long, but we don't know how many trips Tempus took with Well's machine before we meet him in the series.

Maybe Tempus was more normal, just a little bored, when he went for a joyride with Wells. Wells might have taken the trip in smaller jumps and inoculated himself against whatever it was that messed with Tempus's mind on their trip together. For story purposes the issue with the Wells machine could have been repaired by the time the window technology is invented.

Give yourself bonus points if you know where "a little caca" comes from!

I won't "leap" to any conclusions about its origin.

Joy,
Lynn

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I always figured that Tempus was an untrustworthy narrator, and his claims about what Utopia is and what it actually is are not likely to match up.