Wouldn't it be easy to pass themselves off as just an advanced Human looking race who just happen to have a similar language and social structure as the people of Earth? That way they could make contact with whatever races are in the Alpha quadrant and not have to worry about contaminating the timeline, much.
Why not just leave...
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Meeting just about anybody would always be a risk to the future of, well, the future.
OTOH, if they just flew off to deep space and shut down the engines, odds are that nobody would ever find them. But that would be a dull sort of way to spend the rest of your life. So why not land on, say, Ceti Alpha V and set up shop there? The databases would surely reveal at least a few such planets where nobody ever went and which never became anything significant, and the heroes could no doubt take a few treknobabble precautions against their lifesigns ever being detected.
...It would be a rather weird kind of a society, to be sure. A religion that forbids contact with the universe and predicts absolutely certain doom at a known date and time; I'm sure the descendants would at some point begin to question the wisdom of that all. And when they found out that their seemingly mad priests and scriptures had in fact been dead right about everything...
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OTOH, if they just flew off to deep space and shut down the engines, odds are that nobody would ever find them. But that would be a dull sort of way to spend the rest of your life. So why not land on, say, Ceti Alpha V and set up shop there? The databases would surely reveal at least a few such planets where nobody ever went and which never became anything significant, and the heroes could no doubt take a few treknobabble precautions against their lifesigns ever being detected.
...It would be a rather weird kind of a society, to be sure. A religion that forbids contact with the universe and predicts absolutely certain doom at a known date and time; I'm sure the descendants would at some point begin to question the wisdom of that all. And when they found out that their seemingly mad priests and scriptures had in fact been dead right about everything...
Timo Saloniemi
First off ...
When Voyager was first thrown into late 20th century Earth orbit, they quickly learned that the timeline was influenced by the technology from the future (although Starling going back to the 29th century for more tech is incredibly stupid since he could have easily been using the timeship itself to create new techs for decades if not a whole century, because there's a good possibility that the small ship would in fact most likely have far larger computer/memory capacity than Voyager ... by about a factor of 10 or 100) and as such they couldn't leave just yet.
When they destroyed the timeship/Starling/anomaly, a new anomaly opened up fairly fast and Braxton returned Voyager to the delta quadrant.
It's also possible that if Voyager returned to the AQ (24th century) via the slingshot method around the Sun, they still could have been in breach of the TPD.
So Braxton did what was the safest course of action, return the vessel to the DQ and avoid potential alterations to the timeline as he perceived it.
That was before his paranoid past self who tried to destroy Voyager was re-integrated with him and ended up in rehabilitation before he could return to duty.
When Voyager was first thrown into late 20th century Earth orbit, they quickly learned that the timeline was influenced by the technology from the future (although Starling going back to the 29th century for more tech is incredibly stupid since he could have easily been using the timeship itself to create new techs for decades if not a whole century, because there's a good possibility that the small ship would in fact most likely have far larger computer/memory capacity than Voyager ... by about a factor of 10 or 100) and as such they couldn't leave just yet.
When they destroyed the timeship/Starling/anomaly, a new anomaly opened up fairly fast and Braxton returned Voyager to the delta quadrant.
It's also possible that if Voyager returned to the AQ (24th century) via the slingshot method around the Sun, they still could have been in breach of the TPD.
So Braxton did what was the safest course of action, return the vessel to the DQ and avoid potential alterations to the timeline as he perceived it.
That was before his paranoid past self who tried to destroy Voyager was re-integrated with him and ended up in rehabilitation before he could return to duty.
But Starling had already demonstrated that he didn't really understand the timeship technology. It's not as if there wasn't more of it in there, it's that he lacked the skill of prying it out.
Which is rather realistic, really. Give a fully powered-up and ruggerized laptop to Voltaire or Newton, loaded to the brim with modern scientific knowledge in interactive form, and they might only have deciphered the cool operating principle of the mechanical latch by the time the laptop died on them.
Timo Saloniemi
As a viewer, you know this trick exists. Setting that aside and considering what things are like in the 24th century of the TV series, I imagine the details of its execution are a closely guarded secret.
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