Future Guy IS a Romulan! + New respect for BB

[Mach5]

Future Person of Interest should've been revealed to be a Remulan, and they left it vague as to what a Remulan is

REMULAN? A Rommie / Remmie hybrid? Awesome!

Klingons should've been called Klingauts throughout the show.

LOL

At the end of the series Dr. Phlox could go back home to visit CARDASSIA PRIME.

I believe that the original back story for Phlox involved post-Endgame Neelix traveling back through time/space to 21. century Cardassia, marrying and impregnating a local 13 year old girl, and eventually naming the baby Phlox to honor his great grandfather.

 

[ALF]

Wow. Think of the viewers they might have saved from the start by introducing the Temporal Cold War as a Romulan series arc.

 

[rahullak]

^
A Remulan could be a freak Reman/Romulan hybrid. :P

 

[commodore64]

I'm from Canada but I came to Las Vegas to take part in the Las Vegas Con as well as visit my mom. I was looking forward to asking Brannon Braga about critism that he nearly killed Star Trek. Someone beat me to it so instead I asked him whom he believed Future Guy was. Apparently he and Berman discussed it and it would most likely have turned out to be a Romulan, leading up to the War which would have been EPIC.

I have a new respect for Braga as he too dislikes the theme song, realizes that the final episode was a mistake and has a great new show coming out soon called Flash Forward. Braga was so gracious with the fans, mingling in the vendors room. He is a pretty decent man.

Figured as much about the FG was a Romulan. Thanks for the update.

I didn't think the final episode was a terrible mistake, BTW. And though I don't like the theme song, it's not so bad as I would hold it again him.

 

[ChristopherPike]

Incoming transmission from an alternate 2005 where Enterprise continued...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPcJFY2iCto

Having not been seen since The Expanse (and only vaguely referred to during Storm Front, Part II), new viewers would've needed reminding about Future Guy's modus operandi. So this is a sort of pre-teaser recap. Short (because I only had a few hours) but to the point.

 

[cooleddie74]

It would have been awesome if Future Guy turned out to be Waldo. Then we know just where the hell he was all along...700 years in the future.

 

[Captain59]

How about if Nero ended up being Future Guy? He had what...25 years to just sit around waiting for Spock to arrive? He had to do something to pass the time. Why not mess around with the 22nd Century?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I had always assumed Future Guy was Captain Braxton.

 

[Mach5]

How about if Nero ended up being Future Guy? He had what...25 years to just sit around waiting for Spock to arrive? He had to do something to pass the time. Why not mess around with the 22nd Century?

Hehe ... Nero spending 25 years in Rura Penthe sounds much more plausible. New IDW comic "Star Trek: NERO" deals with this, though it suffers from considerable flaws.

BTW, I always believed FG was a Rommie. He definitely sounded Romulan, plus scheming and manipulation fits the Romulan MO perfectly, doesn't it?

But there is still one serious question to consider. This new movie taught us that tampering with the time line only creates an alternate reality, leaving the original time line unaffected. So what would this Romulan FG have to gain by creating alternate time lines?

BTW, season 3 does go in favor of this alternate time lines theory, since the sphere builders speak of "time lines" (plural) instead of "the time line."

 

[Pauln6]

Future Guy was... Gary Seven! All those years in the sixties with Terri Garr drove him mad.

 

[ChristopherPike]

All the evidence points to Future Guy transmitting his image into his own past. To send it anywhere else wouldn't really be of any use. Nero wasn't a temporal scientist, he was glorified oil rig worker!

Actually all JJ Abrams' movie proved is that mixing 'Red Matter' with a black hole results in the creation of a different quantum reality. If you don't take that into consideration, it undermines the classical rules of time travel obeyed during 39 years of Star Trek. It makes a mockery of Future Guy's motives, the Borg Queen's plan from First Contact, Admiral Janeway's in Endgame, Sisko adopting Bell's ID in Past Tense to restore the 24th Century, the fact that Data's head is 500 years older than the rest of him by the resolution of Time's Arrow or Kirk allowing Edith Keeler to die in CotEoF. Or else there would be no jeopardy in visiting the past, eliminating the drama and the risk of wiping out everything that exists in the future. It does raise this thought: If every villain became aware of this Abrams method of having your cake and eat it, why don't they just go live happily ever by setting up their own alternate reality?

Phew. I think need to go lie down again...

 

[Hartzilla2007]

I knew, I knew that guy HAD to be a Romulan.

 

[Mach5]

All the evidence points to Future Guy transmitting his image into his own past. To send it anywhere else wouldn't really be of any use. Nero wasn't a temporal scientist, he was glorified oil rig worker!

Actually all JJ Abrams' movie proved is that mixing 'Red Matter' with a black hole results in the creation of a different quantum reality. If you don't take that into consideration, it undermines the classical rules of time travel obeyed during 39 years of Star Trek. It makes a mockery of Future Guy's motives, the Borg Queen's plan from First Contact, Admiral Janeway's in Endgame, Sisko adopting Bell's ID in Past Tense to restore the 24th Century, the fact that Data's head is 500 years older than the rest of him by the resolution of Time's Arrow or Kirk allowing Edith Keeler to die in CotEoF. Or else there would be no jeopardy in visiting the past, eliminating the drama and the risk of wiping out everything that exists in the future. It does raise this thought: If every villain became aware of this Abrams method of having your cake and eat it, why don't they just go live happily ever by setting up their own alternate reality?

Phew. I think need to go lie down again...

I agree with everything you said. I guess the best explanation would be that in some cases time traveling creates alternate realities, in others it doesn't, and it all depends on hundreds of delicate variables that only extremely advanced beings like the Q could comprehend.

The concept of time traveling creating alternate universes has existed in Trek before. For example, Commander Sela could have never existed without it since in the prime timeline "Skin of evil" still happened. Tasha Prime died, yet her alternate version still gave birth to Sela.

 

[cooleddie74]

I remember SERIOUS, stern discussions in the forums back in 2002 about Shinzon from NEMESIS being Future Guy. A few around here took that theory very seriously in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.

 

[Mach5]

I remember SERIOUS, stern discussions in the forums back in 2002 about Shinzon from NEMESIS being Future Guy. A few around here took that theory very seriously in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.

Probably those same people who still think TATV really happened

 

[cooleddie74]

I remember SERIOUS, stern discussions in the forums back in 2002 about Shinzon from NEMESIS being Future Guy. A few around here took that theory very seriously in spite of all the evidence to the contrary.

Probably those same people who still think TATV really happened

Those letters now mean you are dead to me.

Begone, demon!