Why Did Star Trek Go Back In Time?

Tez The Trekker · Lieutenant, Junior Grade Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 79

Why do you think the creators of star trek decide to go back in time?

i think it was the fact that voyager brought back so much technology that life would be to easy for starfleet, and they had no reason to fear the borg as they went bye bye.

Captian McGraw · **Thu Aug 15, 2002 10:47 am**

Tez I argee with you 110% good job.

Pah-Wraith · **Sat Aug 17, 2002 11:49 am**

no I reckon they felt that there were too many series based in Janeways time(TNG,DS9,VOY) and felt that they needed a change of scene and also many people wandered what early starfleet was like and requested a prequel series

Tez The Trekker · Lieutenant, Junior Grade Joined: 08 Aug 2002 Posts: 79

Intrepid241 · **Sun Aug 18, 2002 11:47 am**

I do like the idea of Enterprise being in the past. It's like a breath of fresh air. I like it alot!

Captain Jayson Day · **Sun Aug 18, 2002 2:04 pm**

it does bring a breathe of fresh air, its a good series

Jadzia Lenara Dax · **Tue Aug 20, 2002 12:20 am**

Well, I guess going back even further would have made the show very hard to relate to...I like that they went back in time. Because Starfleet had just started, the characters are able to retain some prejudices that aren't exactly politically correct, like Archer's first views on T'Pol, but are very human. These characters are more flawed, making them easier to relate to...if they'd gone further into the future, we'd most likely have been presented with humans with nothing wrong with them. Like in Voyager, did you ever see Janeway be the least bit less than perfectly moral without a huge guilt trip being then laid down on her? Not that I can remember...it just would have been too difficult to accurately portray life that far ahead of our time.

PhionexAlpha · **Tue Aug 20, 2002 1:10 pm**

i think they went back just to throw a new idea out there.and give people a sense of wut it was like even before kirk.

Commander Ranahan · Doctor Joined: 11 Oct 2001 Posts: 9519 Location: Guam

yeah it is a great idea

Captain Jayson Day · **Wed Aug 21, 2002 9:03 am**

maybe because thats the only thing they could really do

Intrepid241 · **Wed Aug 21, 2002 8:30 pm**

Exactly...

Picard alpha 110 · **Wed Aug 21, 2002 11:07 pm**

to get a fresh perspective on things

Chinesetrekkie · **Sat Aug 31, 2002 3:04 am**

I think because going forward might make us less interested in it, so they tried going back in time, and i think it worked out good.

Another reason might be because Starwars' eposode 1,2 and 3 are in the pass.

Bugger Boy · **Tue Sep 10, 2002 3:33 pm**

Actually, they started on Episode 4 because...Well I don't know.

Any way, Another reason they started in the past might have been because that the further into the future you go, the more difficult it is to write episodes whereas if you go back into the past you have so many new ideas and besides you know what will happen in the future so It makes it easier.

Case Closed.

thegame · **Fri Sep 13, 2002 8:45 am**

as to if life would be easy in the federation now that voyager's back, what about the rebuilding after the Dominon war. Cardassia is in shambles, the Klingons, Romulans and Federation weren't much better off. And what about the Dominon back in the Gamma Quadrent, they didn't surrender in 2375. I'd say that, even by the end of 2377 when Voyager returned, there was a lot of uncertainty in the alpha/beta quadrents.

Zeke Zabertini · Captain Joined: 13 Sep 2002 Posts: 4832

Why? I think the answer lies in 'why not?'