Talk:Interfold layer

Parallel universe or not
To prevent an edit war, i'm opening a discussion on this topic here. Parallel universes are not always mentioned to be what they are. Just like starships arent always mentioned in the dialogue to be starships, they are sometimes only shown to be vehicles that travel between stars but arent always called by name as "starships" even though the name only suggests they are ships that travel between stars. In a same way parallel universe is by definition a different spacetime continuum realm place that coexists with the prime universe spacetime continuum realm, somehow out of quantum phase, dimension, somewhere in subspace, or what ever the writes come up with. But should we disregard any such item in star trek as a "parallel universe" if that specific term is not used? Blair says yes, I say no. Thoughts anyone? Personally I've considerd the terms "universe, layer, realm, reality, continuum" as pretty much interchangable, but should we not do that?
 * Well, without knowing anything about this particular instance I would say that a parallel universe is different from something like the Q-Continuum or Fluidic Space or any other dimension within our own universe. Specifically related to this instance: space and subspace may be specific to our universe and not another - which is why we don't have much cross communication...Basically if we don't know for sure we could just leave it out &mdash; Morder (talk) 22:57, October 28, 2010 (UTC)

That is an excellent point, currently we draw the line on what an "universe" is at just that it is a "space-time continuum" and that subspace is not included in the universe. I tried to wrap my brain around what is contained in what and there are no clear answers on any of it. In fact All Good Things even seems to suggest that alternate timelines share the same subspace. Then again there seems to be a basic notion that a universe has to be something bigger than just a empty realm where matter comes in from some other universe through some wierd whirlwinds, but then again our universe is basicly the same thing, an empty realm into which matter came from the megan universe through matter-energy whirlwinds of creation points. --Pseudohuman 00:11, October 29, 2010 (UTC)