That might be the whole point - i.e. the downfall is a byproduct of humanity's own hubris.
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You seem to mix up literary canon with lore, which is usually what people refer to when they talk about canon in relation to stuff like Star Trek. And lore changes all the damn time, usually by the marvelous beast that is the retcon.
The person(s) currently putting out new Star Trek can absolutely create new canon and negate old one. Hence why Trill look like they do now because of Make-Up issues with Terry Farrell, and not like ol' wishbone-head and the replacement host did in TNG. It was retconned, and we politely ignore that bit of Early Installment Weirdness. Just like Trek fans were (implicitly) asked to politely ignore Klingons going from Fu Manchu bearded human looking guys painted with make-up foundation Mexican # 2 (yes, really) to space Vikings with big distinct alien foreheads. Which was then retconned again because of a throwaway joke. Or why Ferengi apparently aren't eating their enemies contrary to what Picard claims on TNG. Or why it took a few episodes for TOS to decide which organization the Enterprise is even part of.
I mean, that depends on what the mission statement of the Department of Temporal Investigations is. Is it to preserve the Federation, or is it to preserve the sanctity of the timeline. Because if it's the latter, there might be ethical restriction put on changing the future with information gained from time travel. Maybe they aren't even allowed to look into their own futures.
I normally don't watch ST:VOY - but happened to catch "ST:V - Living Witness" when looking at the Star Trek Day stream (had never seen it before and hell, I first thought - What? - so they did a MU based Voy episode?) In seeing it all the way through I saw what they did, (and it was interesting to a degree) - but my point:
They could have Robert Picardo do a cameo in ST: D Season 3 as if I'm not mistaken - the time he leaves that world to go retrace Voyager's path back is in the same time frame that Burnham and Co. have time traveled to.
That would be a violation of the Temporal Prime Directive.
Daniels didn't see the devastation of "Shockwave, Parts I and II(ENT)" coming and he had advanced 31st century temporal technology. It happened and he couldn't stop it and fix the timeline until after it happened.
It's "sheer fucking hubris".
So I can see what looks like a future starship (similar to the Dauntless but with smaller nacelles) the wreckage of a saucer section and bridge module (there are cutouts between the bridge and the saucer), a 32nd century Starfleet uniform (similar but not 100% like the uniforms from the 29th century time cops from VOY), and the new oval combadge.
In some timelines, but we don't know whether this is one of those futures. What Janeway did in Endgame may have changed the timeline unrecognisably, or any other event between then and Discovery's arrival which altered events. Trek has never practised predestination (except of course when it did) so the future could be radically different from the ones we've seen before. Picard suggests that as well.
Is she a 32nd century Starfleet officer? The uniforms from that time period are supposed to bear a resemblance to the 29th century Starfleet uniforms seen in "Relativity(VOY)."
No idea......I have seen the actress in other things but can not place her at the moment.
I would say that she is as she is shown to be wearing the new starfleet badge in another scene.
I wonder if she's meant to be Betazoid, or if that's just the color of her irises?
Possibly. I think she might be a lieutenant as well if those two angled bars on the front of the uniform collar is anything to go by.
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