Timeline for Were the events of the Star Trek movie First Contact always a part of history?
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| Oct 6, 2021 at 22:29 | comment | added | Emsley Wyatt | I would say not. My personal theory, and it is only that so I'm not making it an answer, is that the actions of the Enterprise-E crew did alter the timeline in some minor ways, one of which might be that the NX-01 was named Enterprise rather than, I don't know, Dauntless maybe. As for "Enterprise" the series, I've always thought it most useful to think of the series as a "black box", as in, here was the timeline before and here it was after, rather than trying to track changes from each specific episode. | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 18:17 | comment | added | Valorum | @rosesunhill - Are you seriously suggesting that Star Trek isn't actually a documentary series? | |
| Mar 6, 2016 at 17:58 | comment | added | rosesunhill | My take on time travel and alternative timelines in the collective Star Trek canon is that there is no overriding theory enforced on the writers. Instead, whatever works best to advance the story sets the frame, but only for that story. And that makes sense. After all, it's a TV show (and a number of movies), not a rigorous exploration of philosophical or scientific theories. And would we really want it to be anything else? | |
| Mar 5, 2016 at 2:25 | vote | accept | NeutronStar | ||
| Mar 5, 2016 at 0:38 | answer | added | John Sensebe | timeline score: 5 | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 20:46 | comment | added | Angelo DeMichaels | Canonically speaking: Prior to the movie those events had yet to be established. So as far as we know, that is how history played out and all the Enterprise crew did was "restore" history. | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 20:06 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 14 | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 19:09 | comment | added | NKCampbell | Tempted to edit the above to say "NX-01 Enterprise is meaningless" | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 18:50 | comment | added | Politank-Z | Further complicated by the timing of NX-01 Enterprise's launch being influenced by The Temporal Cold War. Sequence, here, is borderline meaningless. | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 18:49 | comment | added | Valorum | They were always a part of history after they became always part of history. Before that, they weren't. | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 18:44 | comment | added | NKCampbell | are you asking about temporal mechanics, loops, and paradoxes or a 'real-world' history of Star Trek plot and writing question? | |
| Mar 4, 2016 at 18:34 | history | asked | NeutronStar | CC BY-SA 3.0 |