I know they have "Temporal Shields", but Time Locks & Fixed Points? Have those terms been used in Star Trek, or are you pulling from 'Doctor Who'?
I know, =(
No Tiimeships?
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That should have no bearing on your own viewpoint.
Of course it doesn't, I have my view on how I want Star Trek to move forward into my Head Canon set at the start of the 26th Century.
I've factored in all major changes to existing canon including ST Discovery into my Universe.
Fixed points were used in the Voyager relaunch novels, written by Picard co-creator Kirsten Beyer. She acknowledged she stole it from Doctor Who. And since that also had a convoluted nonsensical time war which is somehow in the past and inaccessible...
But was that used only in the novels, or in ST.PIC?
I think we all do.
But, technological progress is always difficult since Trek has never portrayed tech in a linear fashion. Time travel has been around since TOS, and used for historical observation missions, and yet that rarely comes up later on, except occasionally. Transporters can reverse aging, yet again rarely used.
As much as I love Discovery, it is very much falling in to the old Trek trap of not wanting to shake things up too much with the implications of its technology. In this instance, fans are more willing to change things. Strange, I know.
Only in the novels, but modern Trek is happy to mine the novelverse for content (see: Control) if they like to.
I've even factored in the DASH Drive AKA Spore Drive including the limitations of requiring a Biological Navigator for long distance jumping.
I mean, that one makes sense. It has a lot of implications though it was sorely underexplored some interesting themes, at least for me.
The whole Biological Navigator thing becomes it's own seperate institution of volunteers with Paul Stamets & Straal as the father of Astro Micrology and the Spore Drive. They basically setup entirely new ways of solving problems in space battles that weren't an option for me before, but now is an option due to the "Spore Drive".
Yup. They just wanted to nip such assumptions and expectations in the bud.
I doubt it. Book said all known methods of time travel were destroyed, not just timeships and time machines. They probably destroyed the time crystals too. They might even have taken out the Guardian of Forever. Presumably the stone doughnut itself is nigh-indestructible (though it did look eroded), but it wouldn't be too hard to turn the surrounding bedrock molten and let it sink into the crust where it would be inaccessible for a few tens of millions of years.
Word of caution: Don't suggest story ideas to an author. That legally prevents them from using that idea.
Fixed point in time.
Well, Blade's suggestion is too vague and unspecific to constitute an actual story idea in that sense, but I doubt I'll be asked to do any more DTI books anytime soon. And nearly the entire DTI series is incompatible with Picard continuity anyway.
It's time traveler thing. Trust one who knows.I'm not following.
So would it follow under the Christopher Bennet Continuity of Trek Novel-verse exclusively? Or would it be compatible with other Trek Novels by other authors?
The boldfaced part...some hidden joke I'm not aware of?
"Dr. Who" reference?
Oh. Right. Whatever.
Can I at least get the Cliff's Notes version? (I haven't seen any Who since the McGann TV-movie)
