Why did YOH Janeway turn off her Temporal Shields?

[Guy Gardener]

The Temporal Shields were invented after %90 of the crew left.

She was reviving all the victims of Krenim battles and imperial brutalization, all the civilizations they erased from existence, Tuvok's eyes, and all that. That year was a timeline nobody preferred over the previous one (except perhaps Annorax).

He wouldn't either seeing him blowing up got him his wife back.

Only because the mining timetables shifted by a few hours because all the resources used to make the weapon vanished, and they had to dig a little deeper.

All this 'Time" being a vindictive minx is wishy washy "feelings" crapola.

Father Time just excretes logs of irony from height.

Mother time has a little more subtly.

 

[Violet.Phoenix]

So Violet.phoenix, if you had a bad week, you wouldn't mind being murdered and replaced by a doppleganger from an alternate timeline if they could be steered away from that bad week? Sure it's been a bad week, bit when you go to heaven, how many Temporal dopplengers of you are you willing to share it with?

I think that's a bit of a general case. In YOH the situation was much more severe, and I personally do not believe that temporal doppelgangers come into play here.

Sure people have bad days or weeks, but on what scale are you talking about? If it's the general crappy work week then you just get through it and carry on. This is something entirely different, Janeway wanted to spare her crew all that suffering, not to mention the countless lives that had been lost due Annorax's time ship.

As for the ending, I wouldn't say that I disliked it, but if they had done a whole season in the style that YOH was done it would have been quite interesting.

 

[Guy Gardener]

I'm never clear, and then there's the spelling.

Temporal Doppelgängers is just what I am calling the earlier versions of these people that had been knocked off course into a new destiny... Which is exactly what happened. If Janeway had travelled back in time to meet these younger selves with alternate destinies and couldn't get home because her future didn't exist any more, would she muddle on or kill herself? Because stuck in the future that's exactly what she did do to make these peoples lives easier.

Annorax had been destroyed.

The Krenim Empire had been reverted to what it was when the government that asked Annorax to build the weapon in the first place

Thinking fourth dimensionally, Voyager might not have been destroyed by ramming into Aanorax's weapon if what janeway was colliding with simply vanished and the explosion around it, just like on that movie about the flying train.

So Janeway would have died if the timeline didn't reset, and she would have retained her life experiences if she kept her shields up, AND the time line reset.

So really, she chose to die.

Annorax was afraid that planets were being temporally shielded, so it doesn't matter what Janeway suggested tot hat dinky little fleet following her around.