?? about Nicholas Prentiss, the Time Traveller (Tribunal)

This is a discussion of two time travel episodes, Tribunal and Time to Time. I include some details, so if you haven't seen the episodes yet and like surprises, I suggest you read no further!




I came across the episode 'Time to Time' on youtube. I'd never seen it before. I LOVE time travel episodes. It was an unexpected pleasure to see the time traveller Nicholas from the classic episode 'Tribunal' in this one.

The episode showed some archive footage of Nicholas as he assisted the lawyer Aaron bring the Nazi Rademacher to justice.

But some of the details of this episode made me wonder if Nicholas had been truthful with Aaron Zgierski by telling him that they were related. He tells Lorelle that she has been brought to the year 2059 where a time travel business Chrononics is in operation.

But in Tribunal he tells Aaron that he is Aaron's great grandson. No pun intended, but when was there time for Nicholas to be born and grow up in the intervening sixty years?

I mean, Tribunal was set in 1999 and the episode didn't even mention Aaron having any children or grandchildren yet! Of course it was a possibility that he had a grown child that wasn't mentioned and even a little grandchild. But Aaron was born after the war and looked to be in his late forties.
So, how could HIS great grandson Nicholas who looked to be about fifty be running Chrononics in sixty years?

It could have just been a little continuity error. Nicholas does say that he was from a hundred years in the future. Time to Time should have been set around the year 2100 and not 2059. Just a little detail I noticed watching the episodes back to back. I rewatched Tribunal after this one.

One theory I had was that Nicholas misled or distracted Aaron with the "family" story in order to prevent him from executing Rademacher on the spot. Nicholas had a much better plan to see to the demise of the Nazi which would not entail Aaron becoming his executioner.

Of course since Nicholas IS a time traveller, he could've travelled BACK to 2050 as a grown man to become the first director of Chrononics! Time travel twists my mind. lol

If that was the case, I think Nicholas went back not so much to kill Rademacher but to save Hannah. At the end of the episode Aaron obviously has custody of her. I imagine he adopts his little sister. And Hannah is actually Nicholas's grandmother.

Seeing justice served was sweet but Nicholas always had to save his own grandmother! Ya think?