#Star trek temporal cold war series#

No, they're 9-to-5 government employees, and like to keep things as unchaotic and, ideally, dull as possible. The DTI know that if they're having an adventure, they've already screwed up, and it's going to pay hell with the paperwork.

Watching the Clock refers both to the DTI's role in protecting and monitoring the timeline, and to the mundane nature of its agents, who are most certainly not Starfleet-style adventurers.

So when or if anything is changed, like an agent being erased from history, they'll know.

Crazy-Prepared: The DTI databases are designed to be ripple-effect proof.

In Watching the Clock, a particularly disturbing Cosmic Retcon occurs, when Agent Shelan is maliciously deleted from history by the primary villain.

Cosmic Retcon: A large part of the DTI's purpose is to protect the timeline from these, and much of the Temporal Cold War revolves around trying to cause them without actively being seen to violate the Temporal Accords.

Only when galactic drift brought them past the Null was it felt acceptable for the Axis to send out scouts into our time, explaining why it's only now been discovered. Other nods are more integral to the plot - the Null from Star Trek: Titan is referenced as the reason why the Axis of Time has only just made contact with the modern era.

Continuity Porn: Almost every time-travel story in Trek canon and the Star Trek Novelverse gets a mention.

Among other nods is a mention of relief efforts to Mestiko.

Forgotten History is largely set in a similar timeframe to Star Trek: The Motion Picture and the novel ''Ex Machina'', and there are references to both. M'Ress and Arex, who both found their way there via very different means of time travel. Two of the more notable cases they handle are Lts. Catching Up on History: The Temporal Displacement Division is tasked with helping those who end up being flung (either by accident or deliberately) into the 24th century get acclimated to their new home.The DTI as a whole fits this trope as well, as it was never mentioned again on television after that episode. Ascended Extra: Dulmur and Lucsly were one-off characters as part of a Framing Device for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode ' Trials and Tribble-ations'.

Not all of them are terribly dangerous, but at least some of them are.

Artifact of Doom: The DTI has an entire vault way out on the edge of the Sol system where they secretly squirrel away various temporal knick-knacks to prevent them from being accidentally or maliciously activated, in keeping with their strict policy of non-intervention.

#Star trek temporal cold war series#

In Watching the Clock, the temporal duplicate of Picard from 'Time Squared' is explained as a result of the Manheim Effect from 'We'll Always Have Paris', and all the Mysterious Travellers From the Future in various Trek series are on one side or another of Star Trek: Enterprise's Temporal Cold War. The Arc Welding is particularly notable in Forgotten History, which links all of Captain Kirk's time-travel experiences (in the Original Series and the animated series) to create the story of the DTI's origins and early activities. Arc Welding: Every single Time Travel episode gets at least a Shout-Out.