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Best time travel and travel slip books for children

Diary of a Time Traveller  by David Long

(£7.99, Wide Eyed Editions)

When Augustus falls asleep in class, Professor Tempo hands him a magic diary which takes him on a whistle-stop tour of history to meet some of the world's finest explorers, inventors, leaders, writers, composers and painters.

A Chase in Time  by Sally Nicholls

(£6.99, Nosy Crow)

The first in the In Time time slip series which takes Alex and Ruby to different historical periods, each time with a different task to perform before they can return to the present. Perfect action-packed adventures for KS1 readers.

The Children of Green Knowe Collection  by Lucy M. Boston

(£8.99, Faber & Faber)

A modern classic, Green Knowe is a the story of seven year old Tolly's stay at the ancient house of his great-grandmother, where the present merges with the past and he meets children who were happy there centuries before.

A Stitch in Time  by Penelope Lively

(£6.99, HarperCollins Children's Books )

A modern classic and Whitbread Award winner. On holiday in Lyme Regis, Maria feels a strange connection to a Victorian embroidered picture and the girl who stitched it, Harriet. Is Maria catching a glimpse of Harriet's world or is she imagining things?

Charlotte Sometimes  by Penelope Farmer

(£6.99, Vintage Children's Classics)

Charlotte’s first day at boarding school is bewildering and lonely. Then, on her very first night, something mysterious starts to happen. She wakes up in the same bed, in the same dormitory, in the same school. But she has slipped forty years back in time...

Tom's Midnight Garden  by Philippa Pearce

(£6.99, OUP)

A classic, beloved story. Staying at his aunt and uncle's house for the summer, Tom resigns himself to endless weeks of boredom. Instead, in an enchanted thirteenth hour, he escapes into a garden of the past. 

The Boy Who Stepped Through Time  by Anna Cidor

(£5.99, Murdoch Books)

On holiday in France, Perry is transported back 1700 years to Roman times and forced to blend in as a slave to survive. Will he manage to find his way home or risk staying trapped in Villa Rubia with his new friends forever? 

TimeRiders  by Alex Scarrow

(£7.99, Puffin)

The first book in the science fiction  TimeRiders  series. Moments before their deaths, three teenagers are plucked from their lives and recruited by an agency with only one purpose, to fix broken history and stop time travel from destroying the world...

The Secret Lake  by Karen Inglis

(£6.99, Well Said Press)

A time travel adventure for KS2 children, featuring a disappearing dog, a boat buried under a grassy mound and a tunnel to a secret lake. After moving into their new home, Stella and Tom discover that they are able to travel back in time to the same house and gardens almost 100 years earlier.  

Children of Winter  by Berlie Doherty 

(£5.94, Catnip Publishing Ltd)

Forced to take shelter in an abandoned barn, Catherine and her children find themselves transported to the time of the Black Death. A classic book full of intrigue and emotion, this is a must for lovers of time-travelling tales. 

Johnny and the Bomb by Terry Pratchett 

(£5.99, Corgi Childrens)

Looking for a story with a good dose of humour and entertainment? You can't go wrong with Terry Pratchett. This is the third novel featuring Johnny Maxwell and his friends, and this time they are about to discover the messy implications of time travel. 

The Knights of the Kitchen Table by Jon Scieszka

(£6.16, Puffin)

The first in a four-part series, The Knights of the Kitchen Table follows the time-travelling adventures of three boys who discover a magic book that gives them the power to travel back in time. 

A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley 

(£6.55, Puffin)

Penelope is sent to stay with her great uncle and aunt in their farmhouse. Here, she discovers an astonishing secret: the farmhouse is a portal to the Tudor past! Penelope gets the chance to meet her ancestors and make friends, but she also gets caught up in a treasonous plan. 

The History Keepers by Damian Dibben

(£6.55, Corgi Childrens)

Jake's parents are missing and they could be stuck anywhere, at any time in history. Jake's family are part of the History Keepers: a secret society protecting history from evil villains who wish to meddle with it. Join Jake  as he travels through time to find his parents. 

The Reluctant Assassin by Eoin Colfer 

(£6.50, Puffin)

Riley is a Victorian boy who finds himself whisked away into the twenty-first century, accused of murder and on the run. He gets caught up with the FBI and finds himself fleeing from an assassin. Excitement and adventure guaranteed! 

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The raw score required to achieve the " expected standard " (a scaled score of 100) was 29 . Thus, the "pass mark" for pupils taking the 2022 KS2 English Reading SATs was 29/50 or 58% . In order to achieve "greater depth" (scaled score of 110) a child would have to score at least 41/50 or 82% .

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2022 Maths KS2 SATs

The raw score required to achieve the "expected standard" (a scaled score of 100) was 58 . Thus, the "pass mark" for children taking the 2022 KS2 Maths SATs was 58/110 or 52.7% . In order to achieve "greater depth" (scaled score of 110) a child would have to score at least 96/110 or 87.3% .

2022 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling KS2 SATs

The mark required to achieve the "expected standard" (a scaled score of 100) was 35 . Thus, the "pass mark" for children taking the 2022 KS2 Grammar, Punctuation and Spelling SATs was 35/70 or 50% . In order to achieve "greater depth" (scaled score of 110) a child would have to score at least 55/70 or 78.6% .

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KS2 History – Time Traveller

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Age range: 7-11

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Giving opportunities to understand and make connections about how farmers and farming life has developed over time and finding out what you know about Early Man. Questions to think about and ask the class: Q. How have early civilizations changed socially over time? Q. What cultural changes have occurred over this time frame? After watching a selection of clips about early civilizations pupils can think about how farming has changed over the centuries producing a time line of key events. Are farmers better or worse off today than in the past?

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The Time Traveller and the Tiger by Tania Unsworth

The time traveller and the tiger – at a glance.

The School Reading Lists’ five word review : Time travel, tigers, history & conservation. Children’s book title : The Time Traveller and the Tiger. Children’s author : Tania Unsworth . Genre : Middle grade fiction. Published by : Zephyr . ISBN : 9781788541701 Recommended for children aged : 9-12. First published : Paperback October 2020. This children’s book is ideal for: imaginative KS2 children interested in conservation.

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Our review:

It might be difficult to write anything about Tania Unsworth ’s brilliant story without revealing too much and spoiling it for you, but I’ll try.

Eleven-year-old Elsie is to spend a week of the summer with her great-uncle John in his big country house. It’s not something she is much looking forward to, but she is prepared to make the best of it. It soon becomes apparent that great-uncle John carries a sadness within him, something from the distant past. Elsie often finds comfort imagining herself to be Kelsie Corvette, her more adventurous alter-ego.

Then one morning, Elsie finds herself transported back to 1946, to India before independence from Britain and face to face with her great-uncle, aged only twelve.

I won’t tell you how this happens; if there’s a literary prize for the most original idea for a time-portal device in a novel aimed at eleven-to-fourteen-year-olds, then Tania Unsworth should win it hands down. The scene facing her when she arrives is described with startling economy:

Everything was the same. Except there was more of it.

They set off on a series of adventures, also involving Mandeep, the son of one of the servants in John’s household, and a fourth nameless presence, a tiger. There are dangers, escapes and rows, all played out against a backdrop of tension and doubt: will they survive, and who is this person really, apparently dropped in from nowhere? Towards the climax of the story, as they confront the organiser of a scam taking money from tourists conned into hunting deliberately-drugged tigers, Elsie (who has been calling herself Kelsie) tells John who she really is.

I found this one of the most intriguing parts of the story. How will all this resolve itself when the present-day is re-established? What will have changed? Will John remember Elsie? You will find solutions absorbing and satisfying.

The true hero is the tiger, the huge mysterious presence in the story and the mainspring of its action. The author treats it with reverence and describes it in impressively stately language:

….he had simply walked into the meadow, moving in the way of all tigers, each massive paw placed outer-edge first, each step a decision. The weight of his long body shifting as easily as ocean swell. The night brought weight to the forest, turning the meadows and groves into solid blocks of darkness. Only the tiger was immune. The denser the shade, the more insubstantial he seemed to become, until he was as grey as smoke and almost as transparent. The bond between the tiger and his prey ran deep. He knew (it) as well as he knew himself.

The final section is called Join The Fight. Here we learn that fewer than 4000 tigers remain in the wild. They are constantly threatened by hunters and commercial pressures seeking to destroy their habitats. There is a list of organisations that are trying to put things right before it’s too late.

Many thanks to Zephyr books for the review copy.

If you like The Time Traveller and the Tiger you might also like: Adventure in Athens by Caroline Lawrence, Time School by Nikki Young, Another Twist in the Tale by Catherine Bruton,  or our recommended books for year 5 .

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Year 6 SATS Writing Evidence: Time traveller leaflet, ancient civilisations (history) – Teacher Assessment Framework KS2

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Do you have enough independent writing to assess your Year 6 pupils against the writing Teacher Assessment Framework for the end of Key Stage 2?

Plazoom has created a selection of writing activities, linked to the foundation subjects where possible, to provide opportunities for independent writing. These could be used to assess pupils against the TAF statements for writing, providing vital evidence of the standard that pupils are working which could be used for internal or external moderation.

‘Pupils’ writing, on which teachers base their judgements, must be produced independently by the pupil.’ (Key stage 2 teacher assessment guidance, October 2019). This writing activity provides success criteria to help pupils understand what they have learnt and a stimulus for writing but teachers should ‘avoid modelling or over scaffolding the expected outcome.’ (Key Stage 2 teacher assessment guidance, October 2019)

In this writing task, pupils will write a leaflet, persuading a time traveller to visit a particular period in time. This could be used within a history topic on Ancient Greece (the information cards are about this period in history) or pupils could create a leaflet for the period of history that they are currently studying, or have recently studied, in class. The example information provided for a leaflet is based on Ancient Greece. Pupils will need a good knowledge of the time period that they wish to write about or access to resources to complete research.

The activity can be used to provide an opportunity for cross-curricular writing, allowing pupils to demonstrate their subject knowledge of a period in history and their writing skills independently.

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For pupils to write their own writing checklists to encourage independent editing.

• Time traveller writing skills checklist

A list of features, without modelled examples, for pupils to use as a checklist for editing writing.

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A poster for display with examples of modal verbs and how they could be used to show likelihood or importance.

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A poster to display listing features found in persuasive writing

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A set of PDF cards that pupils could use to create their persuasive leaflet.

• Historical time period cards

A set of PDF cards with images of different time periods studied in KS2

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To support pupils when planning and organising their ideas.

• Themed writing paper

A PDF writing sheet for pupils to use when writing the final draft of their writing.

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For teachers to use to assess pupils against the year 6 writing TAF statements which could be placed in pupil’s books as a record of evidence seen.

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WTS In non-narrative writing, use simple devices to structure the writing and support the reader (e.g. headings, subheadings, bullet points) EXS To write effectively for a range of purposes and audiences, selecting language that shows good awareness of the reader To select vocabulary and grammatical structures that reflect what the writing requires, doing this mostly appropriately – modal verbs GDS To select the appropriate form for writing and drawing independently on what they have read as models for their own writing

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We find ourselves in that time of year dedicated to the most sensuous and worldly of the earth signs — that is, Taurus season. We are so grateful for our baby bulls, because they remind us that food, drink, sex and money exist to be experienced in all their glory. And what better way to indulge in all these things than by traveling? Liberate your carefully selected and impeccably preserved vintage designer purse strings (we’re talking Taurus, after all) and go somewhere.

The ritual of travel is as visceral as it is spiritual. It’s the sweat collecting under your collar while you speed-walk to your gate (just to make sure it’s there, right?) as much as it is a 4 a.m. kiss on a starry beach accessible only by motorcycle. And the ritual before the ritual — packing — becomes a delicate, fraught dance of selection, a personal curatorial Everest that requires the traveler to dream, first and foremost, of how rainy the breeze might be on the way up the Eiffel Tower, how they might dress for both a rooftop dinner and a volcanic hike just outside San Salvador, if they’ll long for a stiletto boot at the Beijing opera or be too entranced by the show to care that they brought the flats instead. The careful balance of environmental factors in wardrobe selection, however, comes secondary to the crown jewel of functionality: the all-purpose travel jacket .

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Trip jacket selection is an art and a science, best done elegantly, with attention paid to form, function, aesthetics and viability — as a pillow when folded into fourths or eighths on a long-haul flight. It should be able to take you to a museum and a visit to the botanical gardens with street food in hand on the same day. For this, may I suggest pet-tree-kor’s Green Helicteres Isora Jacket . The Shanghai-based imprint’s name is a nod to “petrichor,” a functionally and mystically perfect word that exists solely to describe the divine perfume that greets your nostrils after a rain (a smell that, allegedly, humans can detect more astutely than a shark’s nose can detect blood).

This garment, rendered in a tweed blend with a gorgeously mossy sheen, is both architectural in its structure and fluid in its silhouette. It looks at once inviting and familiar — almost like your most gallant grandfather’s jacket from the days he used to go out dancing with your grandma — and polished and elegant. It wouldn’t look out of place in a cozy diner on a rainy night in San Francisco’s Chinatown or on a dewy morning at the Rhode Island beach house of your friend with generational wealth. The shade of the jacket is an oft-underrated neutral, pairing nicely with virtually any other piece in your suitcase, maybe even amethyst or royal blue too. The Helicteres isora, the jacket’s namesake, is a vibrant plant from northern Oceania whose leaves dry in tawny-green curlicues, like nature’s fractals.

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7 ways to travel more sustainably.

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Sustainable travel can be fun, rewarding and not at all challenging

Sustainable travel is surging in popularity, but what does it mean? The vague term can refer to traveling in a way that’s conscientious of the environment and local communities, leaving less of an impact on a destination and perhaps even bettering the location in the process. Sustainable tourism, in many ways a reaction to overtourism, helps protect the planet, to ensure destinations are liveable and worth visiting for years to come. And while travel can certainly takes its toll, creating carbon emissions, waste and more, responsible tourism is an essential step in protecting the planet.

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Responsible tourism helps the environment by limiting ecological impact, supporting indigenous wildlife, respecting cultural heritage, and not taking away from a destination as a visitor, be it removing a shell from a beach or littering on a hiking trail. Plenty of responsible travel itineraries are easily replicable, but many trips can be adapted to be more sustainable. There are so many ways, big and small, to travel more responsibly and sustainably. Here’s how to start:

1. TSA-Friendly Doesn’t Need To Be Earth Hostile

You can buy single use and tiny versions of pretty much every care product these days, but do you actually need to? Opt for refillable travel bottles to decant your normal products into, and you’ll always have TSA-friendly bottles of shampoo, lotion, whatever you need at the ready. If you prefer to travel without liquids, consider switching to bars of shampoo and conditioner toothpaste powder and other products, which are eco-friendly wherever you are.

Planning ahead can be a major factor in sustainable travel

2. Opt For Public Transit

Public transportation — buses, trains, light rail, etc. — is always more sustainable than a private ride. If possible, use public transit to get to and from your destination and learn your destination’s public transit system to navigate while you explore. Not only will you likely save money as well as lower your carbon footprint, you’ll get a taste of how locals live. If public transit isn’t an option, consider booking shared rides to the airport and excursions, or renting an electric or hybrid vehicle if driving solo is the only option.

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A bit of planning ahead can save considerable landfill waste. Bringing a reusable coffee cup for morning coffee runs and reusable water bottle will hopefully cut down the amount of single-use items you purchase on the go. Other easy to pack items including a reusable travel utensil set, reusable straws and reusable earplugs can help avoid creating more waste on the road. If you’re someone who discards beach reads, consider switching to an e-reader. Pack tote bags to carry souvenirs or other items purchased on the road that won’t require disposable plastic bags.

4. Eat Conscientiously

Eating local is the best way for your diet to support local eco-systems. Not only does dining at independent, small businesses (e.g. not chains), support local business people, but can often have lower environmental impact than major franchised restaurants that ship ingredients and supplies across the country. Making lower impact choices, including eating mostly plant-based, when possible, can also make travel a bit greener. If you don’t have anything to do with leftovers, consider ordering with a bit more restriction so you aren’t creating an excess of food waste.

Local culinary experiences can be healthy, fulfilling and sustainable

5. Book A Sustainable Hotel

Staying at a property dedicated to sustainability can make a big impact, especially by showing the travel industry that this is a priority for hospitality. Hotels are offered various certifications to prove their sustainable status, which can be achieved as a remote eco-lodge or luxury property in a major city. Several hotels are seeking LEED certification , the Green Hotels Association has a collection of vendors who prioritize sustainability, and the Leading Hotels of the World has a sustainability collection of five star properties.

6. Buy Carbon Offsets

While we technically can’t undo the damage we cause to the environment, there are initiatives to at least mitigate it. Carbon offsets allow consumers to compensate for their carbon footprint by funding projects that reduce carbon dioxide pollution. CoolEffect.org can help you decide how much to give, based on trip itinerary and logistics. For example, to offset air travel, a roundtrip, 6-hour flight would add about 1.89 tons of CO2 per passenger, and $31.17 of carbon offsets would help mitigate that.

Some airlines offer the option to purchase carbon offsets alongside airfare

7. Slow Down Your Travel

Slow travel is a buzzword that’s emerged in the 2020s, when work and leisure travel aka bleisure have melded more than ever, and the concept of working and even socializing remotely is totally normalized. Rather than a quick jaunt back and forth, slow travel emphasizes taking your time with tourism, be it living in a rental property for a month and enjoying the sights on the weekends, going backpacking, biking or hiking for an extended off the grid period, or traveling via train instead of air. Slow tourism has been proven to have a positive environmental impact .

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Star Trek loves a good time loop and here are 5 of the best. Star Trek loves a good time loop and here are 5 of the best.

• Time loop stories are a classic science fiction premise Star Trek excels at.
• Star Trek: Enterprise and Voyager had excellent time loop episodes, but The Next Generation's "Cause and Effect" is the best.
• Star Trek: Discovery had two time loop episodes, "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" and "Face the Strange".

Time loop stories are a classic science fiction premise, and Star Trek has dipped into that well several times. Although Star Trek: The Original Series never did a traditional time loop episode, plenty of Captain James T. Kirk's (William Shatner) adventures involved time travel. Every Star Trek series since has incorporated time travel in some way, including two of the franchise's most highly regarded films, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home & Star Trek: First Contact. Not every Trek series has done a time loop episode, but it's an incredibly fun premise that makes for great television when it's done well.

The time loop premise fits so well within the world of Star Trek , that it makes sense the franchise would return to it multiple times. Time loops (or "temporal causality loops") are apparently so common in the Star Trek universe, that Starfleet uses a time loop simulation as one of their training drills. In Star Trek: Lower Decks season 2, episode 8, "I, Excretus," a holodeck simulation called "Time Loop" was one of the possible drills the USS Cerrtos' Lower Deckers had to run, along with things like infiltrating a Borg cube or escaping the Mirror Universe. Being a Starfleet officer means being ready for anything, and here are five Star Trek episodes that trapped their characters in a time loop.

Many television shows have taken advantage of a time loop premise, with Stargate SG-1, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The X-Files, and Supernatural all delivering particularly fun time loop episodes.

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Although not a time loop episode in the traditional sense, Star Trek: Enterprise's "Future Tense" features two different miniature time loops. When the Enterprise NX-01 finds a derelict shuttlepod from the future floating in space, the temporal radiation leaking from the ship causes time disturbances. As Commander Trip Tucker (Connor Trinneer) and Lt. Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating) continue to examine the shuttlepod, they find themselves reliving the same moment over and over.

"Future Tense" has some fun moments, including the time loops.

Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and Sub-Commander T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) discover that the pod is from the 31st century and presume it must be connected to the Temporal Cold War in some way. To keep the pod from the Suliban or the Tholians, Archer and Reed try to booby-trap it but end up stuck in another time loop. Eventually Trip activates the pod's distress signal and the ship vanishes, presumably back to the 31st century. "Future Tense" has some fun moments, including the time loops, but the Temporal Cold War storyline on Enterprise never quite worked as well as it could have.

The 31st-century shuttlepod is impossibly bigger on the inside than the outside, a nod to the time-traveling TARDIS on Doctor Who .

4 "Coda"

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When a shuttlecraft carrying Captain Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and Commander Chakotay (Robert Beltran) crash lands on a planet, Janeway is seriously injured. Before long, Star Trek: Voyager 's villains the Vidiians find the crashed shuttle and kill Janeway and Chakotay. The two then appear again on the shuttle just before they crashed. Immediately realizing they're caught in a time loop, Janeway and Chakotay try something different, but this time, their shuttle explodes. Time resets again, and Janeway and Chakotay make it back to Voyager before Janeway is killed again.

"Coda" is an entertaining and even frightening episode, and Kate Mulgrew delivers a great performance.

In the final loop of Star Trek: Voyager 's "Coda", Janeway sees herself "die" and encounters the supposed spirit of her father. Realizing that something isn't right, Janeway refuses to go with him and wakes up on the planet as Chakotay and The Doctor (Robert Picardo) revive her. "Coda" is an entertaining and even frightening episode, and Kate Mulgrew delivers a great performance. However, the final reveal that most of the story happened in Janeway's head undercuts some of the more emotional moments.

3 "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad"

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Star Trek: Discovery season 1 received a mixed reception from fans, but "Magic to Make the Sanest Man Go Mad" stands out as a solid and entertaining take on a classic premise. When Harry Mudd (Rainn Wilson) arrives on the USS Discovery, he enacts his plan to kill Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) and sell Discovery's spore drive technology to the Klingons. Mudd has a time crystal that allows him to repeat the same 30-minute time period over and over.

Victorious, Burnham delivers the coup de grâce line to Mudd: "Turns out you can con a con man."

Due to the tardigrade DNA in his system, Lieutenant Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp) remains aware of the time loops, and he recruits Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Lt. Ash Tyler (Shazad Latif) to help him stop Mudd. Mudd kills Lorca repeatedly and nearly succeeds in his plan, but Stamets, Burnham, and Tyler reroute Mudd's signal to his fiancée, Stella (Katherine Barrell), and her father rather than the Klingons. Victorious, Burnham delivers the coup de grâce line to Mudd: "Turns out you can con a con man."

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In one of Star Trek: Discovery's best episodes so far, Captain Burnham and her new First Officer, Commander Rayner (Callum Keith Rennie) , find themselves jumping through different time periods in Discovery's past, present, and future. Like the previous time he was stuck in a time loop, Stamets remains aware of the jumps and works with Burnham and Rayner to find a solution. They revisit multiple moments from past seasons of Discovery , and Michael even encounters her past self, resulting in a Burnham vs. Burnham fistfight.

The time jumping turns out to be the result of a Krenim "time bug" that courier Moll (Eve Harlow) snuck onto the Enterprise in the previous episode.

Burnham and Rayner also get a glimpse of a possible future where the Breen ended up with the Progenitors' technology and destroyed the Federation. Thankfully, Stamets, Burnham, and Rayner prevent this future by destroying the time bug, and Discovery loses only six hours rather than the weeks it could have lost. Not only is Star Trek: Discovery season 5, episode 4 an incredibly fun episode of Star Trek , but it also shows how far Burnham and the other characters have come since the show's first season.

1 "Cause and Effect"

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In Star Trek's first true time loop episode, the USS Enterprise-D is destroyed over and over again as Lt. Commander Data (Brent Spiner) and the rest of the crew try to find a solution. After a cold open that ends with the Enterprise blowing up, the crew members end up back at their game of poker. Although they do not initially realize they are stuck in a time loop, Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) begins experiencing a sense of déjà vu. After they discover their predicament, Data sends a message to himself using his positronic brain.

Wonderfully directed by Jonathan Frakes, every time loop in "Cause and Effect" feels unique.

At the end of each loop, the Enterprise collides with another ship as it emerges from a space-time distortion, after Data's suggestion to use the tractor beam fails. Data eventually realizes the message he sent himself indicates they should try Commander William Riker's (Jonathan Frakes) suggestion to decompress the main shuttlebay. The plan works and the Enterprise finally avoids the collision. Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) then contacts the other ship, the USS Bozeman, which has been missing for over 90 years. Wonderfully directed by Jonathan Frakes, every time loop in "Cause and Effect" feels unique, and the episode remains one of Star Trek's most memorable time travel stories.

Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: Enterprise, & Star Trek: Discovery are all available to stream on Paramount+.

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Fjords, Pharaohs or Koalas? Time to Plan for Your Next Eclipse.

If you can’t get enough of totality, or missed out this time, you’ll have three more chances in the next four years in destinations like Iceland, Spain, Egypt and Australia.

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By Danielle Dowling

Are you still a little giddy from the magical moments of totality during Monday’s solar eclipse? Or did clouds swoop in to block your view? Maybe you just couldn’t make it to the path of totality this time. No matter what, the question now is “ Where and when will it happen again?”

“People who have never seen it before, the first words out of their mouth after the totality ends is ‘I’ve got to see another one, this is incredible, this is unbelievable.’ That is when you become addicted to these things and end up traveling no matter where the next one is,” said Joseph Rao, an eclipse chaser and guest lecturer at the Hayden Planetarium.

So, if like Mr. Rao, you’ve developed a raging case of umbraphilia — the love of eclipses — you’ll have three chances over the next four years to see the moon blot out the sun. The first, on Aug. 12, 2026, will start above Greenland, then strafe the west coast of Iceland and move along the Atlantic Ocean and over Spain. Almost a year later, on Aug. 2, 2027, another will skirt the Mediterranean coast of North Africa then cross Egypt and part of the Arabian Peninsula. The third, on July 22, 2028, will cut across Australia and the southern tip of New Zealand.

Future Eclipses

Eclipse chasers will have several more chances this decade to view a total solar eclipse .

Last week, as Victoria Sahami , the owner of Sirius Travel , was preparing to guide a group of tourists in Mazatlán, Mexico, for Monday’s big event, she was also planning for these other upcoming eclipses. Ms. Sahami joined the ranks of the eclipse-obsessed when she witnessed one in Venezuela in the 1990s. “Like many people, I was hooked. There was no going back,” she said.

Total solar eclipses happen fairly regularly — about every one to two years — in locations scattered around the world. “That’s the great thing about them: You wind up in places that you don’t normally go,” Ms. Sahami said.

A major spoiler is weather, which will be a big variable in the 2026 eclipse — one Greenland, Iceland and Spain will see.

“Iceland normally has a lot of cloud during that time of year,” said Paul Maley , who runs Ring of Fire Expeditions . “The data shows Spain to have the higher good-weather prospects of all three. However, the sun is low in the sky and the eclipse ends as the sun hits the horizon at sunset.”

Because of Iceland’s mercurial meteorology, Ring of Fire Expeditions is going all in on Spain, with a 10-day excursion on the mainland. Sirius Travel is offering not only a five-day trip to Majorca but also an eight-day tour around Iceland. It will be based in Reykjavik, and the itinerary will remain flexible on the day of the eclipse so the tour can easily pivot toward the location with the least cloud cover. Ms. Sahami recommends the trip for those who already have a few eclipses under their belt and would be happy just to take in the sights of Iceland if the weather doesn’t cooperate.

The 2027 eclipse, on the other hand, promises to be truly stellar: Luxor, Egypt — the site of numerous ancient temples as well as the Valleys of the Kings and Queens — sits right in the middle of the path of totality and will be bathed in darkness for a full 6 minutes 23 seconds. Weather-wise, it is what Ms. Sahami called “a slam dunk.” “You know you’re going to see it. You know that you’re not going to get any clouds,” she said.

But for all its potential, those considering Egypt should be aware that the State Department has a Level 3 “Reconsider Travel” warning for the country because of the risk of terrorism.

The 2028 eclipse will darken the skies over Sydney, Australia, for 3 minutes 49 seconds. It will be the first time the city has experienced a total solar eclipse since 1857. Ms. Sahami has her eyes on a trip based out of there, while Mr. Maley has chartered a cruise ship off the northwest coast of Australia. It will be winter there, he said, but that isn’t likely to mean bad eclipse-viewing weather.

If you want to see any (or all) of these eclipses, you should get started on planning and booking now, particularly if you want to sign up for a trip organized by a tour company. One of Sirius Travel’s excursions to Luxor is already full.

Scrutinize refund policies and look into insuring your trip. Several companies will fully refund your deposit if you cancel a year in advance. A lot can happen, Ms. Sahami said, “but if you think you’re going to go, why not?”

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