Post by Mutant 77 on May 28, 2019 12:16:32 GMT
As stated/retconned in "Escape from the Planet of the Apes", Taylor's ship VISUALLY "disappeared" ("disintegrated") from reality when it entered into the Hasslein Curve, proving there was some new kind of space-time warp out there. That's why they launched Brent's ship as rescue in the very first place.
So it wasn't about the Hasslein's "Theory of Time" anymore, but something more complex and effective to explore.
And as stated in "Escape", Brent's ship "disintegrated" the same.
Even in Beneath Brent says they were following Taylor's last known trajectory and speculated they'd travelled hundreds of years into future. Which again doesn't make much sense in terms of a "rescue" mission - a) they knew they'd probably land up hundreds of years in future. b) if they were aware Taylor's ship had disintegrated, they went to rescue them by doing exactly the same thing and also being disintegrated. 😂
"Idle speculation", well, speculation is never "idle", it means that you use your brain. LOL.
Sorry, but BENEATH and ESCAPE are 100% canon, unlike the 1974's TV series (which is a different continuity). So we must take in account the fact that they "retconned" some concepts. Nothing too dramatical, buddy.
Brent's speculation in the aftermath has NOTHING to do with the original rescue mission. He was just guessing on what had TRULY happened.
Taylor's ship disappeared, so the rescue mission followed its trajectory.
The guys in ESCAPE were just talking with approximative terms, being not too detailed. They talked about "DISINTEGRATION" only after Brent had been launched many months before. At the time Brent was launched, they had sensed that there was a warp out there and they were in for an exploration. So the "Disintegration" concept was a kind of official cover-up, or just one of the many theories floating among them.
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