Editing Seven Days (TV series) (section)

==Synopsis==
The plot follows Frank B. Parker, a former [[United States Navy SEALs|Navy SEAL]] and CIA operative who was drafted as a member of "Project Backstep", a secret [[Covert operation|black-ops]] branch of the US [[National Security Agency]] stationed in a base secretly located somewhere in the desert of [[Nevada]] called ''Never Never Land'' (a play on [[Area 51]], or [[Groom Lake Flight Test Facilities]], also known as ''Dreamland'') responding specifically to national security that would otherwise endanger the safety of America and the world at large, utilizing the "Chronosphere"—an experimental [[Time travel|time machine]] reverse-engineered from alien technology found at [[Roswell UFO incident|Roswell]] years ago—to avert disasters before it even starts.

===The Chronosphere===
The "Chronosphere", otherwise classified as the "Backstep Sphere" or simply "the Sphere", is a blue-colored 16-sided [[chamfered dodecahedron]] time machine with a detachable vacuum-sealed hexagonal entry hatch, with its interior housing the control console and its navigation joystick, as well as much of the necessary components independently powering the device's functions. As the opening intro implies, the Chronosphere is designed to send "one human being back in time seven days" to avert disasters, referred to as a "backstep". The show's title refers to the chief limitation of the technology, namely that a "chrononaut" can only ''backstep'' seven days due to limitations imposed by the device's fuel source—a transuranic alien substance salvaged from the Roswell crash-site known as "[[Unobtainium|Element-117]]"—and its external reactor outside of its hangar. As the fuel source is limited, there is a strict mandate that the backstep is confined to events relating directly to national security, though it can replenish itself to a sufficient amount seven days after its usage.

The way the Chronosphere works is that, when sufficiently charged to 100%, the reactor, the gravitational field generators located outside the Chronosphere and Element-117 itself create a time-displacement field around the device before seemingly vanishes from existence in a bright flash of light as it slingshots into a wormhole in space where the [[Time dilation|time-bending properties of space itself]] works in tandem with the time-displacement field to send the Chronosphere and its contents backward in time and into Earth as it crashes down for landing. In the process, past iterations of the Chronosphere and its contents fades from existence to prevent [[Temporal paradox|further paradoxes]] as if it was never there, stating that "[[Impenetrability|two instances of the same object cannot occupy the same space]]".

While it is accurate in traveling through time, navigating the Chronosphere to its destination seven days into the past requires having to use the navigation joystick to maintain and center the Sphere's six gravitational axes (referred to as "flying the needles") as "backstepping" has often proven to be agonizingly painful on a physical and psychological level during its transit, sometimes leading to fatal worst-case scenarios should the chrononaut prematurely let go of the joystick before the transit is complete such as being stuck in space or phased into the ground.

However, being a reverse-engineered experimental tech based on alien technology, the Chronosphere tends to suffer from a variety of malfunctions, either due to the unpredictable properties of Element-117 or the untested nature of the device itself, as the recurring element of the show has Parker and/or Project Backstep having to prevent any given crisis under the limitations of the Sphere's unpredictable effects, ranging from causing time loops (one of which is in the vein of ''[[Run Lola Run]]''), intercepting a soul [[afterlife|on its way to the afterlife]] that results in the Chronosphere creating a black hole in its hull, reverting one's mind to a child-like state, being stuck in the body of a [[Pope]], separating one's soul from its body, transporting into a parallel universe, and splitting the chrononaut into two opposing halves, among many others.