temporal issue

[topcat]

The temporal guys were always happy to put voyager back to where it belonged in order to keep things correct. In essence....

Because voyager DID get home years later, why did the temporal people not stop future janeway from going back in time? Or to keep voyager from using the future weapons and altering the whole timeline?

 

[Guy Gardener]

Because that's what their past looks like.

Stopping Janeway would paradox themselves out of existence.

 

[The_Baroness]

Because plot.

 

[hux]

They did.

That's why we saw no home coming.

 

[apollo1984]

They did.

That's why we saw no home coming.

No home coming because they got whisked straight back to the DQ?

 

[hux]

Yup.

Seconds after this credits roll, they're taken back.

 

[stardream]

The only explanation I can think of it that was the way it always happened...or something.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The temporal guys were always happy to put voyager back to where it belonged in order to keep things correct. In essence....

Because voyager DID get home years later, why did the temporal people not stop future janeway from going back in time? Or to keep voyager from using the future weapons and altering the whole timeline?

Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey reasons.

 

[Vandervecken]

Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey reasons.

Quantum, too. Always quantum.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

IIRC, the "Department of Temporal Investigations" novels explain that the timeline where future Janeway goes back and changes history is the only timeline that prevents the Borg from overwhelming the universe and assimilating everyone and everything. So that's why they let it go.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

No home coming because they got whisked straight back to the DQ?

Well, we can suppose that right after their arrival on Earth (notice that I did not say "homecoming" ! ), the entire crew would have been quarantined, the time to undergo a battery of health examinations (physical and mental) then the senior crew (including Capitain Janeway) should have answered interrogations about their discoveries and their meetings with the various people crossed during their long trip, especially about the Borg universe, etc....
.It's only after all that (seriously, to examine about 130 people then to question them, takes time, guys!), that the crew could go home and definitively join in their families and friends.
The logs would have been read and USS Voyager would have been studied (in particular, the improvements brought to the vessel, AND of course, Borg alcoves) before becoming a museum piece Hey after 20 years, I guess that the vessel cannot be used any more, right?!....

As for ex-Maquis members, I think that even if they were rehabilitated for services provided upon Janeway's recommendation (= they avoid the prison and keep their rights for pension), it isn't sure that Starfleet accepted to reinstate them in giving them some new missions, except maybe Torres who is both an expert in her domain and the daughter-in-law of Admiral Paris what protected her.
-> I can suppose that Chakotay turned to the civil life (teaching?).

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As for Old Admiral Janeway, her death saved her from the humiliation of a trial which would have bring to the loss of her title and/or even to the prison.
We can suppose (and hope?) that her doppelganger will have a brilliant career and a wiser but more very solitary existence (she could allways count on her friends (a healthy Tuvok, the Doctor, and the others)!

 

[stardream]

Now that I think about it why didn't the Time Police do something about the events in Timeless?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Now that I think about it why didn't the Time Police do something about the events in Timeless?

They did.

Captain Braxton refers to the events of that episode as "the temporal inversion in the Takara sector". It's an example of one of Janeway's messes that his crew had to clean up.

 

[hux]

Braxton is a walking parsnip by this point. He can't even count.

BRAXTON: Thirty years of exile on twentieth century Earth. The temporal inversion in the Takara sector. Three violations that I had to repair.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Yes, but they did allow Braxton to retire on that very same 20th century Earth, where he built a bar and mentored a certain Sam Beckett...

 

[BillJ]

IIRC, the "Department of Temporal Investigations" novels explain that the timeline where future Janeway goes back and changes history is the only timeline that prevents the Borg from overwhelming the universe and assimilating everyone and everything. So that's why they let it go.

I hated that.

 

[Triskelion]

Because due to her successful experience time traveling, they commissioned Vice Admiral Janeway to head up her newly proposed Temporal Division. Her first act was to grant herself and her department authorization for temporal missions in perpetuity.

Then she set about to marry someone named Braxton, just so she could say "I - am your granny" to Captain Braxton.

 

[Drone]

Because that's what their past looks like.

Stopping Janeway would paradox themselves out of existence.

At the risk of indulging sleep deprived mental shortcuts and possible delusions, I would say this very accurately describes the situation as they perceived it.

 

[MacLeod]

Your not supposed to remember what happened a few episodes ago. )

 

[STEPhon IT]

The temporal guys were always happy to put voyager back to where it belonged in order to keep things correct. In essence....

Because voyager DID get home years later, why did the temporal people not stop future janeway from going back in time? Or to keep voyager from using the future weapons and altering the whole timeline?

Because the writers didn't understand about opening pandora's box.
The temporal guys are foolish to think they can fix what appeared to be a constant meddling with time. They don't even consider maybe the reason they exist is because time has been altered, and by them trying to correct things constantly is why it can never be right. It's quite possible they do these things so in order for them to continue to exist.
I think meddling with time should have some sort of consequence, its something that can't be corrected accurately... maybe 98.9 percent. But the 1 percent of change still remains and this creates anti-time or a stream of flux which can't be fix because they don't know it's even there.