Spoilers Time travel issues S2

[fireproof78]

I'm sorry but these new time travel rules in Picard affect more than just Data's head. Enterprise is officially a prequel to the Kelvin Timeline, with Krall fighting the Xindi, etc. Yet the entire first 3 seasons of Enterprise would have had to have happened differently, with no Temporal Wars and no Borg episode.

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[dupersuper]

Clearly they blew it out of the stars

With what?

 

[zenophite]

With what?

I'd imagine if you're focused on galactic conquest as a society, your focus on and resource allocation for weapons development will be incredibly high - and you will have breakthroughs in that area in accordance with that.

 

[zenophite]

I'm no fan of the writing on ST:Picard, but in regards to time travel there have been enough time travel episodes across the previous series that it's anyone's guess what the 'true' timeline actually is.

 

[The Emissary]

I was confused by this too but because I was looking at it in a linear fashion. In the immortal words of The Sisko - "It's not linear". Some folks (myself included) were literally looking at it from the POV that the 1800s encounter must be intact because the change to the timeline does not occur until 2024. Thus, all before it must be the same right? Well not necessarily...

The "starting" point is in the 24th century in the case of the 1800s encounter. Since the Confederation exists during that time - we can assume all androids are like Harvey and mere servants - not officers in the fleet. Thus, Data never serves on that warship Enterprise or whatever. Thus, there is no 1800s headless Data adventures. It's weird because the starting point is in the middle.

To compound the confusion - they shoehorned the (admittedly funny) cameo of the punk grabbing his neck in terror at someone telling him to turn down his music. This implies he ran into Kirk and Spock ... or did he? As weird as it sounds (and others have said) - the whale probe still appeared over Confederation Earth and Kirk and Co. went back to 1986 to get whales just like in the Prime Timeline. My personal head canon is evil Kirk smashed his boom box while evil Spock choked him out. :P So the effect remains the same and the in-joke for us TOS fans remains the same. *Shrugs*

It's messy but it works. I can't say that is the case for half of the time travel episodes/films in the Trek mythos.