Star Trek as crosstime travel

[dsmike1980]

Before finding OA, my sci fi indulgence was dominated by Star Trek and not much else, mainly because it was on tv on a regular basis when I was growing up. I loved it but always hated the time travel episodes as they usually negated the premise of the show. We have this awesome starship that can take us anywhere in the galaxy where we can go to all these new planets, meet aliens and maybe get into a cool space battle with them, but instead of doing any of these things lets return to Earth so we can go back in time to 1900's San Fransisco to meet Mark Twain. Whenever time travel happened they usually weren't in space anymore which was the main reason I watched the show, those episodes were only salvageable if there was a starfield in the window.