LIST #57
TEMPORAL ANOMALIES
AS CAPTAIN JANEWAY ONCE SAID, “I SWORE I’D NEVER LET MYSELF GET CAUGHT IN ONE OF THESE GODFORSAKEN PARADOXES—THE FUTURE IS THE PAST, THE PAST IS THE FUTURE, IT ALL GIVES ME A HEADACHE.” THESE ARE JUST SOME OF THE INTERESTING EFFECTS TEMPORAL ANOMALIES HAD ON STARFLEET CREWS:
Manheim Effect Dr. Paul Manheim created a temporal distortion window where a moment of time repeated itself.
TNG “WE’LL ALWAYS HAVE PARIS”
Energy vortex entity The vortex destroyed the Enterprise-D while Picard tried to draw its attention from a shuttlecraft. Picard was thrown backward six hours, where he had the chance to change what happened.
TNG “TIME SQUARED”
Kerr loop A temporal rift was created by intense weaponry discharge near superstring material during the Enterprise-C crew’s battle with four Romulan warbirds
TNG “YESTERDAY’S ENTERPRISE”
Temporal aperture The crew of the Enterprise-D discovered a breach inside the quantum singularity engine of a Romulan warbird that formed temporal fragments reducing or accelerating the flow of space-time within them.
TNG “TIMESCAPE”
Anti-time A collision of time and anti-time caused a rupture that spread backward through time until it prevented the beginnings of life on Earth.
TNG “ALL GOOD THINGS . . .”
Gaia barrier The crew of the Defiant met their descendants on a planet with a strange energy barrier that was two hundred years out of time.
DS9 “CHILDREN OF TIME”
Dormant chroniton radiation This radiation caused Kes to leap backward throughout her life.
VGR “BEFORE AND AFTER”
Metreon radiation barrier The Defiant came to the rescue of a now deceased Starfleet captain whose distress call had been time-shifted three years into the future due to the energy barrier around the planet.
DS9 “THE SOUND OF HER VOICE”
Micro-wormhole The Voyager crew established communications with the captain of a Romulan ship in the Alpha Quadrant through a micro-wormhole, only to discover the wormhole sent their message to the past and their potential savior died four years before their mission began.
VGR “EYE OF THE NEEDLE”
Temporal flux distortion The U.S.S. Bozeman broke free of a temporal flux distortion it was trapped in for decades and destroyed the Enterprise-D. The temporal anomaly then caused the event to occur again and again until Data provided a valuable clue for how to break the loop.
TNG “CAUSE AND EFFECT”
Borg temporal transmitter An older Chakotay and Harry Kim violated the Temporal Prime Directive using a Borg temporal transmitter to save Voyager from a disastrous attempt at getting back to the Alpha Quadrant.
VGR “TIMELESS”
Golana portal A time portal sent Molly O’Brien into the distant past, briefly returning her as a young woman until she could be exchanged for her younger self.
DS9 “TIME’S ORPHAN”
Spatial rift This anomaly split the decks of Voyager into different timeframes.
VGR “SHATTERED”
Xindi subspace corridor Enterprise NX-01 encountered a version of itself thrown into the future, and the crew met their descendants.
ENT “E2”
Black hole When the Romulan mining ship Narada and Ambassador Spock’s vessel were pulled into a black hole, the event created an alternate reality where Captain Kirk and the Enterprise crew had different adventures. The new universe of experiences it created would become known as the Kelvin Timeline.
STAR TREK (2009)