Hello, long time lurker first time poster here.
Apologies if this is in the wrong area but I have a time travel type theory relating to Season 2 with Q not changing the timeline but the comment how time has been broken.
I feel that Q changing one trigger event that either prevented a bootstrap paradox or a predestination paradox has done more than changed the timeline and caused this "time has been broken" comment by Seven.
We know that the events of BoBW had several knock on consequences, the main ones being:
1) The Borg attempted to assimilate earth in First Contact and travelled back in time.
2) Ben Sisko lost his wife and went on to command DS9 and discover the wormhole.
I believe that first issue actually caused first contact with the Vulcans to happen and Starfleet to be formed and without The Enterprise E and her crew, this would never have panned out this way, so the Borg in some way are a crucial catalyst for the formation of the Federation, they even allude to this in Voyager Relativity thanking the Borg however tongue in cheek.
The second issue is that without Sisko taking over DS9 and discovering the wormhole and The Dominion the starship Defiant would never have been put into action, without the events of DS9 past tense would never have occurred. In the same way as the above, I suspect that Ben Sisko caused the Bell riots to play out as they did and normally they would not have occurred so there would have been no reform of the sanctuary districts.
Spinning out from this, Kira and O'Brien travel back to the very same time that Kirk and Spock are in during the guardian of forever incident. This is again not ever directly stated in universe, but the boxing poster in both episodes was meant to signify they were both in exactly the same era at the same time. I am unsure what impact they may have had being there, but by being there they aided things playing out the way they did and Edith Keeler not dying. Without her death the Nazi regime would have ruled earth.
These factors all lead me to believe that if a single event such as the first meeting of the Borg never happens, it will unravel so many other incidents that spun out of this through time travel and altering the future in multiple different ways, not true changes to the timeline as once the timeline has been changed there are no ways to recreate the trigger event as the history and the future of that history have been changed preventing it from ever being "reset." I believe this is why they say time is broken rather than a classic time has been altered, lets go back into the past and fix it in one go romp. I think they may need to recreate several events to steer things back to a similar trajectory which will take the entire season and likely involve multiple points of history.
Your thoughts?
Apologies if this is in the wrong area but I have a time travel type theory relating to Season 2 with Q not changing the timeline but the comment how time has been broken.
I feel that Q changing one trigger event that either prevented a bootstrap paradox or a predestination paradox has done more than changed the timeline and caused this "time has been broken" comment by Seven.
We know that the events of BoBW had several knock on consequences, the main ones being:
1) The Borg attempted to assimilate earth in First Contact and travelled back in time.
2) Ben Sisko lost his wife and went on to command DS9 and discover the wormhole.
I believe that first issue actually caused first contact with the Vulcans to happen and Starfleet to be formed and without The Enterprise E and her crew, this would never have panned out this way, so the Borg in some way are a crucial catalyst for the formation of the Federation, they even allude to this in Voyager Relativity thanking the Borg however tongue in cheek.
The second issue is that without Sisko taking over DS9 and discovering the wormhole and The Dominion the starship Defiant would never have been put into action, without the events of DS9 past tense would never have occurred. In the same way as the above, I suspect that Ben Sisko caused the Bell riots to play out as they did and normally they would not have occurred so there would have been no reform of the sanctuary districts.
Spinning out from this, Kira and O'Brien travel back to the very same time that Kirk and Spock are in during the guardian of forever incident. This is again not ever directly stated in universe, but the boxing poster in both episodes was meant to signify they were both in exactly the same era at the same time. I am unsure what impact they may have had being there, but by being there they aided things playing out the way they did and Edith Keeler not dying. Without her death the Nazi regime would have ruled earth.
These factors all lead me to believe that if a single event such as the first meeting of the Borg never happens, it will unravel so many other incidents that spun out of this through time travel and altering the future in multiple different ways, not true changes to the timeline as once the timeline has been changed there are no ways to recreate the trigger event as the history and the future of that history have been changed preventing it from ever being "reset." I believe this is why they say time is broken rather than a classic time has been altered, lets go back into the past and fix it in one go romp. I think they may need to recreate several events to steer things back to a similar trajectory which will take the entire season and likely involve multiple points of history.
Your thoughts?
