At least two time travel episodes deal with an alternate future in which some character has children or descendants; then, when the past is changed and that timeline is erased, those individuals are erased from history.
This happened to Kes's daughter and grandson, Linnis and Andrew, in "Voyager's" "Before and After." And "Deep Space Nine" had an entire episode revolving specifically around that topic, with a group of DS9 descendants being erased from history due to time travel ("Children of Time").
Interestingly, both of those episodes were released--and thus take place in--the same year. Makes one wonder if the "Children of Time" and "Before and After" timelines are somehow related....
But anyway, I'm just curious about other characters who existed only in "alternate futures," that were ultimately erased. I'm planning to do something with this in a fanfic down the road, but even if I wasn't it's still something a Trekkie can't help but ponder.
So from DS9, we have Yedrin Dax, and his whole (bland) colony, from "Children of Time."
On "Voyager," we have Linnis Paris and Andrew Kim from "Before and After."
There's also Naomi Wildman's daughter Sabrina in "Endgame;" however, we have no guarantee Sabrina won't still be born.
And of course, Annorax's wife, and all those other people erased from history in "Year of Hell;" that of course was all fixed in the end, so we never actually met anyone who we know for a fact was erased. (Though certainly, there would have been countless individuals constantly being created and destroyed in a second, as the episode discusses.)
What about TOS, TNG, "Enterprise," "Discovery" or the movies? I'm curious if there are any other characters whose bio starts with "in an alternate future..."
This happened to Kes's daughter and grandson, Linnis and Andrew, in "Voyager's" "Before and After." And "Deep Space Nine" had an entire episode revolving specifically around that topic, with a group of DS9 descendants being erased from history due to time travel ("Children of Time").
Interestingly, both of those episodes were released--and thus take place in--the same year. Makes one wonder if the "Children of Time" and "Before and After" timelines are somehow related....
But anyway, I'm just curious about other characters who existed only in "alternate futures," that were ultimately erased. I'm planning to do something with this in a fanfic down the road, but even if I wasn't it's still something a Trekkie can't help but ponder.
So from DS9, we have Yedrin Dax, and his whole (bland) colony, from "Children of Time."
On "Voyager," we have Linnis Paris and Andrew Kim from "Before and After."
There's also Naomi Wildman's daughter Sabrina in "Endgame;" however, we have no guarantee Sabrina won't still be born.
And of course, Annorax's wife, and all those other people erased from history in "Year of Hell;" that of course was all fixed in the end, so we never actually met anyone who we know for a fact was erased. (Though certainly, there would have been countless individuals constantly being created and destroyed in a second, as the episode discusses.)
What about TOS, TNG, "Enterprise," "Discovery" or the movies? I'm curious if there are any other characters whose bio starts with "in an alternate future..."
Naomi's future daughter Sabrina from voyager episode "End Game" probably ceased to exist once Voyager got home. Dax mentioned Bashir had a kid in DS9 episode "The Visitor". In TNG "First Born" the Alexander from the alternate timeline brought back a knife that showed Lursa had a son. But Lursa was killed in Star Trek Generations. I bet her son was probably on the ship when it exploded.
