Year of Hell Question

[Eminence]

As I rewatch Voyager, I'll probably be coming up with more questions, and I've come up with one for YOH.

If Annorax had temporally terminated the Voyager crew, would the various species of the crew members be also wiped out? Meaning, Earth, Vulcan, Talaxian etc, civilization would have ceased to exist? That was how the temporal weapon worked right?

 

[Anwar]

No, it would mean that those individuals he elminated would be wiped from history, not their entire race.

An entire race can only be eliminated from history if Annorax used the weapon on their homeworld because it would elimiante everything on that planet from ever existing, meaning all the plants and bacteria and stuff on Earth we'd have needed to evolve would never have existed, so neither would we.

 

[Guy Gardener]

If that's how it worked, then he wouldn'd have had to have traveled to planets and shot at them. Targeting an ship probably just meant that billions of years ago that stellar matter didn't congeal as it flung out of what ever sun created it to compose the raw resourcesand that individual sperms and eggs were assassinated by a shockwave traveling backwards along each of the shot peoples under the influence of the weapon.

But yeah. Removed from time backwards and forwards. Time abhors a vacuum however, and the people who designed Voyager wouldn't have been frelled with unless of course the temporal death jolt eeked past the prenatal threshhold?