Multiple timelines

[Guy Gardener]

The 29th century likes to run with disasters and see where they go. Find the rought. Go back and few days and extract it. The 29th century couldn't stop Admiral Janeway from creating her new timeline until it had been wrung into existence. Which it was. Back and forwards forever. A living timeline as real and mortal as any other which they were legally empowered to destroy which threatened the wholesomeness of their homefront.

The timecops patrol outside of time looking in. Just like Annorax. they don't have to be worried about time changing and themselves folding out of existence. They're safe to save time as leisurely as they deign to.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I wish, after the last scene of Endgame played, they showed a closeup of Braxton doing "The Scream" face and yelling "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! WHY WHY WHY"

But I guess he would have been in time jail. I guess they could have showed the face of that other dude in Relativity.

Nah, they should've cut to Guinan in ten-forward, watching Voyager's return on the news and starting her "This isn't right! It's changed!" routine.

 

[Guy Gardener]

TNG Valentines are the kiss of death.

Mirror Universe where Guinin is the Borg Queen?

 

[propita]

Time was changed, the same instance of time, a small march of important months, was changed thousands of times for 200 years. The shape of space and empire was radically altered by the removal of artefacts, species and planets intrinsic to continuity and the shape of the known present.

Though from how this story was phrased, there are no alternate timelines and time is never split. There is only one liquid and mutable history/present/future which can be tamed and made to service the whim of a single minded individual who understands the science and possesses the technology.

You make it sound so poetic.

In a good way.

 

[Guy Gardener]

What's "poetic in a bad way"?

 

[froot]

What's "poetic in a bad way"?

Pretty much any chunk of writing that comes up on the "Newest" section on deviantArt.

 

[propita]

What's "poetic in a bad way"?

crap poetry that rhymes but communicates nothing or is pretentious?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Thats, Thats, Thats... Excuse me, That's the nicest thing anyone has ever said to me.

Thing is, even if Janeway hadn't turned off the temopral Shields, the 29th century edict to integrate all temporal dopplegangers would have come into effect, that they would have had all of five minutes to enjoy their freedom before 2 or more Janeways (if alternate impressions of time do survive Annoraxs process?), a chorus of Janeways have been compacted into a single tight little unit and forced to share the same skull.