They establish in the first episode that Terra Nova is in a parallel universe, not just in the past. That doesn’t completely preclude the possibility of something like you suggest, but I don’t think that’s where they’re going with it.
That’s what this is about? I was expecting PBS.
I have two words for you: Brannon. Braga. Yes, it would be completely idiotic. But “completely idiotic” is Braga’s speciality (see Voyager’s “Treshold”).
You guys are stronger than me, I couldn’t get through the first hour.
- i just can’t bring myself to care about the characters, probably because there’s no there there.
- I was able to impress my kids and wife by predicting the last episode with pretty good accuracy. Those things were only flying “Dopey Joe’s”. I just don’t think the writers have the horsepower. The woman who plays the Mom/Dr is really pretty, though…
A friend pointed out that this episode is about the third redux of “The Naked Time”: virus improbably makes people act crazy and can only be stopped by [technobabble].
We agreed that the lack of Sulu with a foil was a serious flaw. One of many.
Gah! Hasn’t the Internet endured enough, after the BSG finale? And since this stars a guy from Avatar, such a thing could threaten a convergence of nerdstorms to end all nerdstorms.
… Although, unlike with Pandora, I’ll conceed that Terra Nova could be vastly improved by some orbital bombardment.
Well, they *think *its a parallel universe, based solely on the face that they never found the probe they sent through.
The ignore the 10,000 possible holes in that theory.
You’re welcome! 
I did watch any of the episodes, so can someone please tell me if they ever explain why it was necessary to travel back to the dinosaur era? I mean, couldn’t you go back to the time where the biggest threat was getting amphibian goo on your shoe, or set up house with some nice early hominids?
The rip in space/time they discovered is a natural phenomenon that they apparently can’t (yet?) replicate or change. So they’re going to 85 million BC because that’s where the portal happens to go.
One hopes they got a little more confirmation than data from a single probe, but with these people who knows. Certainly the fact that the future has not been drastically changed is evidence for the “parallel universe” theory. Either that, or evidence for the “Terra Nova colony disappears without a trace in a century’s time” theory.
One of the kids from Earth 2 died a few years ago, sometime after a heart transplant.
Steven Spielberg isn’t a Gene Roddenberry.