[Section 31]

Whatever happened to the Department of Temporal Investigations and the Temporal Integrity Commission? I thought they were suppose to monitor the timeline to make sure there are no changes to prior historical events? They should have stopped Nero's interference with the 23rd Century! Since Nero is from the 24th Century, the Department of Temporal Investigations should have at least made some effort.

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Depa...Investigations

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Temp...ity_Commission

[Big D]

They never seemed to have much luck stopping anyone else from meddling with history...

[Section 31]

Originally Posted by Big D

They never seemed to have much luck stopping anyone else from meddling with history...

What about crewman Daniels from ENT? He was a Temporal Cold War agent from the 31st Century, and he should have stopped the Nero timeline from ever happening.

[Ferrous]

Originally Posted by Section 31

What about crewman Daniels from ENT? He was a Temporal Cold War agent from the 31st Century, and he should have stopped the Nero timeline from ever happening.

Meh. I can live with that being overlooked or forgotten.

[MonsieurHood]

That's what always bothered me about tampering with time. Who and what decides which timeline is the proper one? What criteria determines the proper progression of history? If you ask me, it's a complete crap-shoot.

[Section 31]

Originally Posted by MonsieurHood

That's what always bothered me about tampering with time. Who and what decides which timeline is the proper one? What criteria determines the proper progression of history? If you ask me, it's a complete crap-shoot.

I agree.

But I also heard that Old Spock:

Spoilers

travels back to the 23rd Century on a small Vulcan ship designed for time travel.

My problem is if Nero is such a threat, why send only Old Spock? Why not a larger ship such as the USS Relativity from that VOY episode?

USS Relativity : http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Wells_class

[danellis]

Presumably by the 24th Century historical records, and Spock's memory, record Kirk et al's adventure with Nero, so they don't try to stop something that's already happened

dJE

[Aqua]

perhaps it was resolved to their satisfaction... or those timecops are in a completely different timeline and are either unaware of this one or just don't care since it's not their own. In addition, they very well could intervene, and in one universe you see them intervene, but in another universe they don't, and the movie features the one in which they don't.

[MrQ1701]

I prefer to keep everything in one Trek universe. It feels like the parallel universe way of explaining things cheapens events. I mean, if some events just create another universe, or happened in another universe, then why is it important? I think keeping everything in one universe hightens the need to correct wrong doings or to prevent them all together. I won't get into arguments over who's right it is to decide which events to stop and those not to. Time travel is such a difficult concept that keeoing things straight is impossible.

[Commodore]

Originally Posted by Section 31

Whatever happened to the Department of Temporal Investigations and the Temporal Integrity Commission? I thought they were suppose to monitor the timeline to make sure there are no changes to prior historical events? They should have stopped Nero's interference with the 23rd Century! Since Nero is from the 24th Century, the Department of Temporal Investigations should have at least made some effort.

Unless the timeline was changed so that the DTI and the TIC never came to be...probably explains how the Temporal Cold War was allowed to happen. It makes the various VOY episodes featuring timeships as temporal paradoxes as most Trek episodes are that deal with future events (they happened, but not really).

But the future is never written in stone anyway--even if it's the 23rd-Century...