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Founder Dominion Leader
Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 12755 Location: Gamma Quadrant
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:43 am |
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So you're premise is bascially off of the belief they don't have temporal shielding...
Ok, that works except one problem.
How did they not have something in the 29th century that VOY had in the 24 century?
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Voyager2004 Commodore
Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2070 Location: Silverdale, WA
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:46 am |
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OOH, sorry for double post, but just remembered something I meant to put in twice now and failed to do...
The Temporal Federation IS susceptible to timeline alterations. Because in "Future's End pt II" Janeway knows Captain Braxton and tells him he was an old man and such. Here it is word for word.
Janeway: Captain Braxton.
Braxton: Do you know me?
Chakotay: Yes, unfortunately.
Janeway: You tried to destroy our ship in the 24th century, and the next time we saw you, you were an old man, homeless, in 1996.
Braxton: I never experienced that timeline.
Paris: Then what are you doing here?
Braxton: In my century we can scan time, much as you use sensors to scan space. The Temporal Itegrity commission detected your vessel over 20th Century Earth. I was sent to correct that anamoly.
See, he was sent to correct Voyager because they were in the wrong spot. The Temporal Federation didn't know why, or how. They just wanted Voyager fixed. They ARE susceptible to alterations in the timeline. And their technology, too...In my opinion, Temporal Shields for the Temporal Federation are a waste of time, unless needed for a temporal based weapon. They need a crew that exists outside of space/time. IMO, of course...
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Founder Dominion Leader
Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 12755 Location: Gamma Quadrant
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:47 am |
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Good point...BUT...the still doesn't answer my question...
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Voyager2004 Commodore
Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2070 Location: Silverdale, WA
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:50 am |
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Temporal shields wouldn't make a bit of difference if someone altered time. The only good that those shields did Voyager, was to finally hold off the Temporal torpedoes, and to prevent them from being altered by Annorax's weapon. Annorax's weapon changed things around Voyager, and not tried to interfere with the making of Voyager's Temporal shielding.
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Lord Borg Fleet Admiral
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 11214 Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:56 am |
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There's just one problem with that, if thats the case, how is it in season five's "Relitivy" He DID know her, and she had ruined his career? Yet even more plot holes.....
As for your question, andy. I dont know, again, plot holes. How is it seven has more advanced technology in heer ocular implant then a 29th century starship?
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Voyager2004 Commodore
Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2070 Location: Silverdale, WA
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 2:59 am |
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The 29th Century can have Temporal Shields all they want. But they won't do very much good if they're still susceptible to the changes.
Now, I see what you're saying about why you believe they wouldn't be affected with the shields in place. And I guess it's possible they wouldn't be affected...up UNTIL the point where they created the Temporal shields in the first place. And/Or started using them on a permanent basis. But if the timeline changed up to the point when they created the shields and started using them, everything that they know to be true, still changed up until they created the shields...
Example: Let's pretend the shields were created in 2650, and they started using them IMMEDIATELY...They're protected...or are they? Now let's throw in a large temporal incursion in the year 2450. That would mean that history is changed up to the point of 2650. But with that large incursion let's pretend that the temporal shields are still put in use in 2650. All the known information, interactions, and history for those 200 years will still be carried on in the records and such through the year 2750. They're not really protected...
I hope I made sense. It makes sense to me, but it's just so hard to explain here...
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Voyager2004 Commodore
Joined: 13 Apr 2004 Posts: 2070 Location: Silverdale, WA
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:01 am |
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Lord Borg wrote: | There's just one problem with that, if thats the case, how is it in season five's "Relitivy" He DID know her, and she had ruined his career? Yet even more plot holes.....
Yes, I was just thinking about that. I don't know...Obviously, somewhere down the line, there was another incursion in which he was privvy to the memories of that past. THAT is just a plot hole in itself. I have NO explanation for that. As I said, they needed a good story, and they got it. I liked the episode, personally.
As for your question, andy. I dont know, again, plot holes. How is it seven has more advanced technology in heer ocular implant then a 29th century starship? Hold on...give me a couple days and I'll hopefully remember what you're talking about...LOL...I'm off for tonight. Talk to ya'll Monday. |
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Lord Borg Fleet Admiral
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 11214 Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 3:02 am |
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It dont matter WHEN their created, being Temporal means that it can't be affected by the changes of time, Year of hell is a good example of this. When they used the shields, they were protected from the time changes which was a change to a time where they werent in a "year of hell" The dudes ship is temporal, meaning that it could have been made hundreds of eyars ago (It is implied it was), but they arer un effected from time changes due to being temporal....
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Founder Dominion Leader
Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 12755 Location: Gamma Quadrant
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:17 am |
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Yeah, this is rife with plot holes. Why make a "good" episode that makes no sense. The good thing about "good" episodes like Year of Hell or Yesterday's Enterprise or even Past Tense is that they HIT THE RESET BUTTON in the end. So all that stuff is undone. This temporal Fed. crap is just that, crap. It makes no sense.
As for your argument of someone messing up time BEFORE they have the temporal shielding, thus allowing them to be screwed up doesn't make sense. If they have temporal shielding in place, NOTHING can make them susceptible to the time line. The most it can do is undo the Federation from making them, but since they're already in place, they can't be affected by it. At least, not ships with it. That is a paradox, but it still makes no sense for them to be affected. UNLESS, they dont have temporal shielding. But if that is the case, how can they not have something that VOY had in the 24th century?
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Lord Borg Fleet Admiral
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 11214 Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 4:27 am |
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Unless they simply dont have it in the new timeline. When things reset, everything went back to a year ago in year of hell. So, no Temporal shielding, or weapons. ALTHOUGH, in the 29th-30th at least, it is known that they have temporal sensors.... if they have temporal sensors, why not shielding? They also have temporal communications.....
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La Forge Bajoran Colonel
Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 2125 Location: Babylon 5
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 1:44 pm |
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Voyager2004 said...
Quote: | How could the Defiant, in the 20th Century, detect something in the 24th Century? I mean, granted, I should go back and watch the episode again...but with time constraints at the moment, I can't, but will come Monday... |
The Defiant was still in the 24th Century. For some reason, the Defiant, because of the chroniton particles on the ship's hull, shielding the Defiant from the changes to the timeline.
Founder said...
Quote: | Yeah, this is rife with plot holes. Why make a "good" episode that makes no sense. The good thing about "good" episodes like Year of Hell or Yesterday's Enterprise or even Past Tense is that they HIT THE RESET BUTTON in the end. So all that stuff is undone. This temporal Fed. crap is just that, crap. It makes no sense. |
There was no reset button, per se, in Past Tense. Sorry, I have to stand up for the episode, seeing as it is my favorite episode of all time. Sisko fixed the timeline, without pushing the button. Plus, he still had memory of what happened, after the ordeal happened. Same with "Trials and Tribble-ations". Hell, in "Little Green Men" Nog points out how much Sisko looks like Bell...because, they're one in the same, unbeknowest to Nog. Heh. Bashir also points out, in Past Tense, that explaining the recent events to Temporal Investigation will be hard.
Sorry...I mean, it feels bad when your favorite episode is referred to as a reset button episode. Heh. /end rant
However, I'm sure that you knew all of that and I'm just rambling. In any case, I concur with Founder. The Temporal Federation was a bad idea. It could have been good, but, alas, like so many things about VOY, it was not. The Temporal Fed....another VOY idea gone awry.
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Founder Dominion Leader
Joined: 21 Jun 2004 Posts: 12755 Location: Gamma Quadrant
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:02 pm |
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La Forge wrote: | There was no reset button, per se, in Past Tense. Sorry, I have to stand up for the episode, seeing as it is my favorite episode of all time. Sisko fixed the timeline, without pushing the button. Plus, he still had memory of what happened, after the ordeal happened. Same with "Trials and Tribble-ations". Hell, in "Little Green Men" Nog points out how much Sisko looks like Bell...because, they're one in the same, unbeknowest to Nog. Heh. Bashir also points out, in Past Tense, that explaining the recent events to Temporal Investigation will be hard.
Sorry...I mean, it feels bad when your favorite episode is referred to as a reset button episode. Heh. /end rant
However, I'm sure that you knew all of that and I'm just rambling. In any case, I concur with Founder. The Temporal Federation was a bad idea. It could have been good, but, alas, like so many things about VOY, it was not. The Temporal Fed....another VOY idea gone awry. |
First of all, what is wrong with reset button episodes?
Second of all, I meant that in the end, things were restored back to the way they were. Minus the fact that Sisko had become Bell himself. But the riots still took place. Things were restored and that's that. That is what I meant...
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La Forge Bajoran Colonel
Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 2125 Location: Babylon 5
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:07 pm |
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Sorry, I didn't mean to fly off the handle. I didn't mean anything by it. But, the word...reset button...it just sounds so...dirty.
Anyways, I was just joking. Sorry 'bout that, eh?
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Lord Borg Fleet Admiral
Joined: 27 May 2003 Posts: 11214 Location: Vulcan Capital City, Vulcan
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:14 pm |
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DS9 had reset button episodes. you cannot apply it to Voyager out of hatred, then defend DS9 like fans defend VOY, the differnces is, VOY just used it more.
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La Forge Bajoran Colonel
Joined: 16 Feb 2006 Posts: 2125 Location: Babylon 5
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Sun Aug 20, 2006 11:17 pm |
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I know that DS9 had its own reset buttons. However, I do not consider Past Tense one of them. That is all I was doing.
For example, "Visionary" a still good DS9 episode, was a reset button episode. There were plenty of others, which I can't recall, but, as you said, there weren't as many as VOY. "Yesterday's Enterprise" a TNG episode was a phenomenal episode and was also a reset button ep. The name sounds dirty however some of 'em are great eps. VOY even had a good reset button ep. "Year of Hell".
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Voyager2004 Commodore
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Mon Aug 21, 2006 10:18 am |
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Lord Borg wrote: | The dudes ship is temporal, meaning that it could have been made hundreds of eyars ago (It is implied it was), but they arer un effected from time changes due to being temporal.... |
Annorax's ship wasn't just "temporal," as you put it. He was out of temporal phase. They, as Annorax put it when Janeway brought the fleet to destroy him, "operate outside of Space/Time." Which is what I was suggesting that the 29th century have...one ship that operated outside of Space/Time and not be affected by the timeline so they can fix it.
Founder wrote: | That is a paradox, but it still makes no sense for them to be affected. UNLESS, they dont have temporal shielding. But if that is the case, how can they not have something that VOY had in the 24th century?
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It makes no sense for them to be UNaffected. Because if time changed before they made the shielding, then all that knowledge and information would travel through up to when they DID create the shielding. Therefore when they actually used the shielding, they still have the changed knowledge and such, therefore having been changed by the Timeline. I know that with the shielding, one wants to believe that they wouldn't be affected, but they aren't living outside of Space and Time. They're susceptible. Having shields to protect you from a particular temporal weapon and operating outside of Space/Time to not be affected by changes are two completely different things...
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