I would like to know this because in ST I have seen that the ships are able to travel to any place in time and everywhere they want to. But if that is true is the whole universe in the 31st century explored and the Federation got bored with exploring space that they decide to travel through time? I would like to know.
How big do you think the federation is in the 31st century?
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They could never explore the whole universe. Never ever.
But since there are already dozens of methods of time travel in the 23rd and 24th centuries, it's inevitable that more and more species will discover them and more and more ways will be found. And so time travel becomes commonplace.
But since there are already dozens of methods of time travel in the 23rd and 24th centuries, it's inevitable that more and more species will discover them and more and more ways will be found. And so time travel becomes commonplace.
Total fanon, but since you couldn't possibly be asking for anything else, I feel okay with it. 
In the 31st century, Earth has finally regained much of the prominence it lost due to matters revealed in the civil war it fought in the 26th century - the start of which saw a Federation that encompassed the whole Milky Way, and the end of which saw it diminished to a handful of mostly human worlds - and not even all of those. The Typhon Pact - which has, for the last four centuries, been a political entity resembling the Federation you think you know much more closely than the 24th century entity of the same name - spans the Milky Way, several nearby galaxies, and a few parallel universe versions of those galaxies, and includes the Federation as a member organization.
The Pact fought a Temporal Cold War against a host of political entities from parallel universes, but with the recent defeat of one of the most hostile of those, the remainder signed on to a new version of the Temporal Accords that saw them agree to only attempt to expand into unclaimed parallels, including parallels that they could create themselves through interfering in "the past" to use quantum branching to split timelines. With effectively unlimited territories to explore/conquer and an agreement to leave each other alone, the need to fight each other ended, and so far, peace is holding.
Starfleet survived through all of the above, and I won't get into the details of how, but suffice it to say that the names "Enterprise" and "Captain Sarah Chandler" are still honored throughout the Pact. It continues as the exploration arm of the Pact's military forces.
In the 31st century, Earth has finally regained much of the prominence it lost due to matters revealed in the civil war it fought in the 26th century - the start of which saw a Federation that encompassed the whole Milky Way, and the end of which saw it diminished to a handful of mostly human worlds - and not even all of those. The Typhon Pact - which has, for the last four centuries, been a political entity resembling the Federation you think you know much more closely than the 24th century entity of the same name - spans the Milky Way, several nearby galaxies, and a few parallel universe versions of those galaxies, and includes the Federation as a member organization.
The Pact fought a Temporal Cold War against a host of political entities from parallel universes, but with the recent defeat of one of the most hostile of those, the remainder signed on to a new version of the Temporal Accords that saw them agree to only attempt to expand into unclaimed parallels, including parallels that they could create themselves through interfering in "the past" to use quantum branching to split timelines. With effectively unlimited territories to explore/conquer and an agreement to leave each other alone, the need to fight each other ended, and so far, peace is holding.
Starfleet survived through all of the above, and I won't get into the details of how, but suffice it to say that the names "Enterprise" and "Captain Sarah Chandler" are still honored throughout the Pact. It continues as the exploration arm of the Pact's military forces.
I think by the 31st-Century, the Federation will probably cover a primary area about 25,000 light-years in size divided between the Alpha and Beta Quadrants , with separate smaller territories scattered throughout the Galaxy. But with space being three-dimensional and with hundreds of star clusters (mini-galaxies) extending both above and below the galactic plane, there could be potentially a thousand billion star systems in our Galaxy alone. Even with transwarp ships, it could take a long time to explore them all, IMO...
I bet you my bottom dollar the Typhon Pact will collapse in on itself like a poorly built outhouse. You have races like the Romulans and the Tholians partnering up apparently just so they can be a general nuisance to the Federation. I guarantee you the Typhon Pact will not last the 24th century without its member states falling upon themselves like the jackals they are. It would seem that after the overwrought Destiny Trilogy, the writers are running out of ideas. It's as if they named all of the Federation and Klingon's past enemies and tossed them all together like a hackneyed comic book plot.
If I was to theorise...The Federation in 200 years, went from being a handful of planets to spanning across 8,000 lightyears. If you take that level of expansion and have him remain consistent, the Federation by the 31st century would be nearly 70,000 lightyears in size. That's debatable however as the Federation would probably spread to nearby galaxies. Not every race in the Milky Way Galaxy is going to give up independence and join the Federation, no matter how beneficial it might be.
We know that by the 29th century, the Federation is temporal based with time travel seemingly a routine part of civilization. What this actually extends to is unknown, but it could be part of a bigger picture involving the Temporal Cold War. Daniels claims to be from the 31st century, I say "claims" because it was never confirmed who he actually was/is and Archer only had his word to go on.
I like the idea of the Federation collapsing at some point in the near Trek future. It would make for an interesting era. Say 50% of the Federation became independent once again during a war or perhaps a crisis, it would be very interesting to see how the balance of power in the galaxy would shift. I think fanon and even licensed novels can go a bit far sometimes. I think it's ridiculous for people to consider ideas like the Borg joining the Federation or even the Klingons becoming full members, therefore giving up their cultural standards because they aren't legal in the Federation.
We know that by the 29th century, the Federation is temporal based with time travel seemingly a routine part of civilization. What this actually extends to is unknown, but it could be part of a bigger picture involving the Temporal Cold War. Daniels claims to be from the 31st century, I say "claims" because it was never confirmed who he actually was/is and Archer only had his word to go on.
I like the idea of the Federation collapsing at some point in the near Trek future. It would make for an interesting era. Say 50% of the Federation became independent once again during a war or perhaps a crisis, it would be very interesting to see how the balance of power in the galaxy would shift. I think fanon and even licensed novels can go a bit far sometimes. I think it's ridiculous for people to consider ideas like the Borg joining the Federation or even the Klingons becoming full members, therefore giving up their cultural standards because they aren't legal in the Federation.
Also I heard something like Q said that the federation would enter the delta quadrant in the late 25th century in some time but I have not seen ST:Voyager in awhile so I am not sure.
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