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Star Trek: The Next Generation: A Matter of Time (1991)
Time travel plus reading historical records makes for plausibility
This was on TV the other day, and while it's been a while since the 2008 review knocking the script, I'd like to take a moment to explain how it would work.
1) Steal a ship from the distant future.
2) Go through its records, looking for something interesting, and stumble across the stories related to the USS Enterprise. The computer on that ship would be far better than anything the Enterprise had so there'd be far more capacity in a far smaller space.
3) Select an adventure of theirs that worked out OK but had no record of you being involved since that was a different time-line, and decide to get involved so you can steal technology that is more relevant to where you came from than the stuff you stole already. After all, there must be a reason that the ship you stole can't provide schematics on building items from the past (or just replicate them) like if they were banned when peace broke out everywhere.
4) Study up enough on All Things Enterprise so that it'd seem like you were looking back at the crew from the future, and when ready, go to that time. This lets you know things like how Data is an android.
5) Screw up badly enough to lose your ship, but not enough to screw up what the Enterprise crew was supposed to do. Lack of a future report from this time-line, detailing how you screwed up, ends up being a bad deal for you.
6) While sitting in whatever prison-like structure you end up in, think about yourself in another time-line, reading (if you are lucky enough to hit the related time-line) passages about your failure from the newly-created time-line's distant future and deciding that perhaps another adventure would be better to meddle in...
Paperback Hero (1973)
Funny, I really like the movie...
I managed to get a VHS copy a few years back, and burned it to DVD-R for posterity.
Perhaps I'm oversimplifying by describing it as a "Canadian 'Breathless'", but I still find that the shortest good description I can come up with.
A lot less use of the Gordon Lightfoot music than I recall from years of watching it on Canadian TV, but that may just be fading memory rather than VHS music licensing problems.
I also liked 'Slipstream' http://us.imdb.com/title/tt0072181/combined more than another reviewer, but some people look at movies as dreams they'd like to be in and some look at them like they were traffic accidents, so there's always going to be disagreements...