Future technology...what was done with it?

StarfleetCommand74656 · Captain Joined: 22 May 2006 Posts: 653 Location: On STV

I reckon the S'fleet thinktank mentioned in 'Spirit Walk' got it. There are two converse goals here: analysing the future tech and seeing how useful it is, and preserving the timeline- this stuff was invented in 26 years! But if the Borg turned up or something, they'd dust it off

Lord Borg · **Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:04 pm**

Founder · **Tue Sep 05, 2006 5:36 pm**

I don't think Star Trek is a multiverse. While they do have many universes, those universes were not created as a result of decisions made in "our" timeline. They simply exist alongside of "our" universe.

As for the future technology, I still don't think Starfleet applied it to the ships. VOY already established the technology, some of it at least, was not applicable to their ships of that era. Not to mention, the repucussions of arming the ships that early are going to be bad.

lionhead · **Tue Sep 05, 2006 6:38 pm**

A multiverse doesn't neccesarily mean the universe where all created as a result of decisions made in "Our" Timeline.

a multiverse just are an Endless number of Universe who all have from a slight thing to a huge thing different from eachother. I think thats called an "Open Multiverse"

As i recall and episodes of TNG where multiple Enterprises from different dimension appeared in one Dimension(the one we are following on TV sorta speak) All enterprises where different from eachother, some where totally different(like being in war with the borg for years and picard dead at the same time), others slightly(like Riker still having no beard).

I'll try to find that episode.

Ah yes, it was the episdoe "Parallels":

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Parallels

They are talking about Quantum Realities there, seems as a Multiverse to me.

deltaflyer3 · Lieutenant Joined: 11 Aug 2008 Posts: 137

i think they studied it, applied some of it to new ships, but mostly kept voyager special

Curtis · **Tue Aug 12, 2008 12:06 am**

I agree. Starfleet probably kept the technology and applied it to all new ships, cuz i dont think it would pollute the timeline, it would prolly remain the same, just happen a lot sooner or sumthing.

calvin · **Fri Aug 15, 2008 11:00 pm**

grandfather paradoxes are generally seen as not logically kosher. so regardless of whether you think the federation kept the future technology, it couldn't have been invented by time travel.

it's like lifting yourself up from your shoelaces. it violates the basic laws of causality which underpin our universe.

also, traveling back in time always creates temporal paradoxes. so far the only way to resolve them is to imagine that there are multiple parallel universes that branch off of one another. regardless of what "created" these parallel dimensions, they simply have to exist if you travel back in time--otherwise you're still dealing with another variation of the grandfather paradox.

personally, i probably wouldn't say that the action/decision to travel back in time "creates" alternate universes. i think the multiverse can be better described as a sea of parallel universes encompassing every possible reality. where different actions are taken, or choices are made, are where these parallel universes branch off of each other. so the act of traveling back in time, like all other decisions, can be seen as a "nexus" between different realities/universes.

RobertBeltranFAN · Ensign Joined: 26 Aug 2008 Posts: 58

I think they let Star Fleet study it and apply it to all ships.