"Well, if they're able to pull people from other times and planets like it's no big deal, then their technology is probably even greater than anything the Federation has," Claude pointed out. "But if that's true, why even bother with this whole act? There's even a town not that far from here, with people and everything."

This version of Earth, that version of Earth -- what was Martin Landel's purpose with all this? If he wanted to keep them in the dark about when and where they were, there were far easier ways to do it than to put up an entire charade involving doctors, nurses and townspeople.

"Do you really think this could be another version of Earth?" he added slowly after a moment. "I know some people have been kicking that theory around, but so far I've been seeing more evidence of memory alteration than alternate worlds." Special counseling and the patients who conveniently forgot their previous time here were examples of that.