I found a fan fic on Fanfiction.net where a girl from the real world, who has a little knowledge of Star Trek from watching re-runs (specifically Voyager), ends up on Voyager in the Star Trek universe. I haven't read the full story yet but the girl has decided that after speaking to Janeway it'd go against the temporal prime directive to reveal everything that's going to happen in the next 7 years.
Anyway I thought, if you ended up in this situation, in any Trek era, once you realise when you were and there was little to no hope of returning, would you:
a) tell the senior crew everything that's going to happen from that point on,
b)reveal things on an episode by episode basis, or
c)become part of the team and experience the whole adventure as it happens.
One of the events that does change in the fan fic is that girls manages to save Hogans life from the Eel in Basics becuase she knew it was going to happened and she had become a friend of Hogans.
For me, I'm not sure how I do it as I'd like to tell them everything but how would it actually affect future events if one event is played out differently or avoided, like if you ended up in the TOS era and lived through the movies, you could save Spock's life in TWOK or even avoid the events of TWOK altogether by telling Kirk about Khan. Or what if you ended up on DS9, could you prevent the Dominion War from happening just by telling Sisko and co how to avoid a confrontation with the Founders/Jem Hadar?
Going on an episode basis means you would reveal certain details that would be relevant to the situation but again could revealing too much about the current situation alter any events in the future?
So what you do?
Anyway I thought, if you ended up in this situation, in any Trek era, once you realise when you were and there was little to no hope of returning, would you:
a) tell the senior crew everything that's going to happen from that point on,
b)reveal things on an episode by episode basis, or
c)become part of the team and experience the whole adventure as it happens.
One of the events that does change in the fan fic is that girls manages to save Hogans life from the Eel in Basics becuase she knew it was going to happened and she had become a friend of Hogans.
For me, I'm not sure how I do it as I'd like to tell them everything but how would it actually affect future events if one event is played out differently or avoided, like if you ended up in the TOS era and lived through the movies, you could save Spock's life in TWOK or even avoid the events of TWOK altogether by telling Kirk about Khan. Or what if you ended up on DS9, could you prevent the Dominion War from happening just by telling Sisko and co how to avoid a confrontation with the Founders/Jem Hadar?
Going on an episode basis means you would reveal certain details that would be relevant to the situation but again could revealing too much about the current situation alter any events in the future?
So what you do?
