Or at least I think that’s what the headlines should read. The episode of Star Trek: Voyager titled Relativity has been causing me immense trouble in recent days. The concept laid forth by Bryan Fuller, Nick Sagan & Michael Taylor leaves the Starfleet world with a ship in the 29th century that goes around fixing temporal incursions caused by mischief making time travelers, in a ship called, you guessed it, Relativity. Now my question is, wouldn’t these “Time Cops” just go right behind Admiral Janeway in End Game and fix the entire thing?
Or, would the major devastation suffered by the Borg mean that the 29th century Time Cops just kind of….leave this one be.
Let’s assume for the sake of knowing that an Admiral Janeway makes an appearance in a later flick, the Time Cops just kind of let the temporal incursion….that changed so much in their timeline as well…remember now, the Borg were still a formidable foe long after Voyager’s return to earth in the alternate timeline, so they were presumably still a potential foe for the 29th century…slide. They let her get her ship home. Why? Because for the benefit of the greater good, the Borg are gone.
Even with that most awesome consequence though, wouldn’t they still be in major violation of the temporal prime directive? Fucking A’, Temporal Mechanics makes my head hurt!
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