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Personally, I hope that one day the books will pick up on the Temporal Cold War as a whole. It's a premise with tons of unfulfilled potential, and by its very nature could involve all the series in all their respective time periods. Obviously we've got Destiny around the corner, and it seems like it will take some time to properly do the aftermath and new status quo justice, but once the events of that trilogy begin to fade, I hope the editors will be willing to consider this as the next big crossover a few years down the line.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
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That would kick some serious ass
^^I dunno... the TCW is just a larger, more organized manifestation of the kind of story we've seen repeatedly, where one faction or individual tries to change history and another either prevents the change or undoes it after it succeeds. One assumes that back-and-forth is going on all the time(s), and eventually the factions working to preserve the timeline would probably end up combining their efforts, and so might the factions working to change it. Hence, a temporal cold war, a stalemate between organized factions reluctant to make too great an intervention for fear of retaliation, and thus co-opting smaller-scale local conflicts to score points. And in this way, the overall flow of history is kept relatively consistent.
And you might be the only one to do a TCW trilogy incorporating seasons one and two of ENT (& Storm Front) without giving us all temporal headaches. Besides, you are the resident science geek
Mind pitching it to Margaret?
Why, are you suggesting Christopher give ALL Trek's time-travel episodes the Q&A treatment? 
Cause that'd be AWESOME!!!
Cause that'd be AWESOME!!!
I would like to see the TCW again myself actually and perhaps mix it in with the Federation Department of Temporal Investigations. Would be cool to see agents of DTI trying to deal with the matter and encountering that Federation Timefleet from the future or something like that.
Plus, a book would help flesh out the various temporal factions like the Sphere Builders who I thought were kind of cool.
Plus, a book would help flesh out the various temporal factions like the Sphere Builders who I thought were kind of cool.
Given Gary Seven's displays of extra-temperal knowledge, I always thought his benefactors (named "the Aegis" in novels) would be naturals for a TCW faction. It was disappointing they never directly came up in ENT (though they could conceivably been part of Daniel's faction).
Actually the name "Aegis" came from a DC comic by Howard Weinstein, which defined them as a group that protects the timeline from other factions seeking to change it to their own advantage -- anticipating the TCW concept by a decade. But Howie was probably inspired by Roddenberry's original 1967 pitch for Assignment: Earth as a standalone series, in which Gary was a man from the future sent back to battle time-travelling Omegan shapeshifters seeking to manipulate Earth history to their advantage.
Having a novel explore the Sphere builders and the Xindi I like that idea. I wish this would be dealt with because they were quite a mysterious alien race it would be intriguing to see what made them godlike to the different xindi races.And why did they target earth with that weapon they had the xindi built.There's alot of story potential that's unanswered about the Expanse.
That was explained in "Azati Prime." They were trying to prevent the creation of the Federation because the UFP would defeat their invasion attempt in the 26th century. No Earth, no UFP.
What beggars explanation, though, is why they'd be so stupid as to send their prototype weapon to attack Earth itself and thereby give them 11 months' warning to mount a mission to prevent the bigger attack. The sensible thing would've been to test their prototype far away from Earth and not let Earth know the Xindi even existed until the final weapon itself showed up out of nowhere and blew Earth to smithereens.
I think your second point is what he was asking. It never was answered, and is a pretty massive plot hole.
the sphere-buildeers weren't TCW were they? they were trying to remodel the galaxy for their colonisation...
^Daniels seemed to think that they were a distraction - but they're clearly entities who observe timestreams and manipulate history to produce the desired outcome, so they use the same methodology as the Temporal Cold Warriors even if they're not one of the 'standard' factions.
As for the prototype weapon, do we even know that was their idea? I haven't rewatched the series since it originally aired, but my impression was that the attack with the prototype was a decision the Xindi took, and it fits with the arrogance, self-confidence and aggression of the Reptilian and Insectoids strains. It wasn't a sensible decision, no, but neither was it preposterous. Humanity would only pose a threat to the Xindi at some latter point in time, and having advance warning shouldn't have affected the outcome: they only had the one ship even capable of reaching Xindi territory within any appreciable timeframe, and said ship could be easily outmatched by just a few Xindi vessels. It's worth noting that the only reason Enterprise was able to stop the attack was because it picked up the Andorians as unexpected allies and were able to convince three of the five Xindi species to actually turn against their fellows, to get them to betray their own to protect an unknown species they had been told was a threat - not something anybody could have predicted. In light of humanity's seeming inability to mount any kind of credible counter-attack at the time, testing the prototype weapon on Earth was merely... incautious. Not the best of decisions, particularly with the benefit of hindsight, but not incredible either, particularly for the Reptilians.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
As for the prototype weapon, do we even know that was their idea? I haven't rewatched the series since it originally aired, but my impression was that the attack with the prototype was a decision the Xindi took, and it fits with the arrogance, self-confidence and aggression of the Reptilian and Insectoids strains. It wasn't a sensible decision, no, but neither was it preposterous. Humanity would only pose a threat to the Xindi at some latter point in time, and having advance warning shouldn't have affected the outcome: they only had the one ship even capable of reaching Xindi territory within any appreciable timeframe, and said ship could be easily outmatched by just a few Xindi vessels. It's worth noting that the only reason Enterprise was able to stop the attack was because it picked up the Andorians as unexpected allies and were able to convince three of the five Xindi species to actually turn against their fellows, to get them to betray their own to protect an unknown species they had been told was a threat - not something anybody could have predicted. In light of humanity's seeming inability to mount any kind of credible counter-attack at the time, testing the prototype weapon on Earth was merely... incautious. Not the best of decisions, particularly with the benefit of hindsight, but not incredible either, particularly for the Reptilians.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
I'm reminded of the cartoons where Spike messes with Droopy's girl and laughs because he thinks Droopy is too feeble to do anything about it, and then Droopy calmly walks up to him and says, "You know what? That makes me mad." And then he tosses Spike around the room in a superstrength orgy of deadpan destruction.
(Shortly after the events of Zero Hour.)
Sphere Builder 1: Well, shoot. I guess we're not going to be living in that dimension for awhile.
Sphere Builder 2: It's okay. It was a rotten universe, anyway.
Sphere Builder 1: Yes, yes. Terrible laws of physics.
Sphere Builder 3: Hey, I found this awesome wormhole! There's room for all of us and our furniture. Plus, there's another species we can mess around with whenever we get bored.
Sphere Builder 1: Well, shoot. I guess we're not going to be living in that dimension for awhile.
Sphere Builder 2: It's okay. It was a rotten universe, anyway.
Sphere Builder 1: Yes, yes. Terrible laws of physics.
Sphere Builder 3: Hey, I found this awesome wormhole! There's room for all of us and our furniture. Plus, there's another species we can mess around with whenever we get bored.
An analogy I would no doubt leap to agree with, if I had the faintest idea what you were going on about.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
An analogy I would no doubt leap to agree with, if I had the faintest idea what you were going on about.
Fictitiously yours, Trent Roman
Just imagine the Incredible Hulk as a small mild-mannered cartoon dog.
Alternatively, read this Wiki article on Droopy
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