Federation Department of Temporal Investigations

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The Department of Temporal Investigations is/was/will be a department within the United Federation of Planets government, responsible for investigating, reporting on, and ensuring that time travel events which occurred under Federation jurisdiction were handled within guidelines established to prevent contamination of the timeline.

  • This includes conducting interviews with those who experienced temporal incidents, and determining whether their actions had a definite impact on the timeline.
  • The Temporal Displacement Division is/was a part of this department, responsible for assisting individuals relocated to different time periods.
  • Though officially part of the Federation Science Council, the Temporal Department operates/d beyond the boundaries of the council, working instead directly with planetary governments and with Starfleet.


Due to the nature of the Department, not many hard details are known.

  • This may be due to either the sensitive nature of the department, the need for secrecy, or the facts, dates, and people ever-changing due to the Department's dealings with time-travel and time displacement itself.


Origins

The DTI was created by legislation passed by the Federation Council in 2270 22nd of July, 7:08 PM Greenwich Mean Time, primarily in response to what was seen as Star Fleet's cavalier use of time travel in the late 2260s. In 2298, following the Darvash Crisis, the Science Council merged the Chronal Assessment Committee of the Federation Science Council and the Temporal Physics Subgroup of the Anomalous Physics Group into the DTI, creating the modern department. Though officially part of the Federation Science Council, the DTI operated beyond the boundaries of the council's purview, working directly with planetary governments and with Starfleet.


Organisation

The Headquarters of the Department of Temporal Investigations were located in Greenwich, England, part of the European Alliance on Earth. The public section was in a trio of large, semi-detached Victorian houses atop the Prime Meridian. Beneath these buildings, in high-security underground levels, was the bulk of the DTI's operations. The organization was headed by a Director with four Assistant Directors beneath. DTI branch offices were located in San Francisco - which was primarily responsible for investigations involving Star Fleet - and in Sadvis on Aldebaran III, amongst other places. Each branch office was headed by an Assistant Director.


In 2364 a research annex was under construction on Vandor IV. The DTI also maintained a facility called the Eridian Vault, located on the planetoid Eris, where confiscated time-travel devices were secured. And, along with Starfleet, the DTI jointly administered Warlock Station which was a monitoring and research station orbiting the Black Star. DTI agents were placed on the planet where the Guardian of Forever is located, in order to prevent use of the Guardian except for an "extreme emergency".


The majority of DTI staff were made up from species known for emotional stability or self-discipline, such as Vulcans, Deltans, Rhaandarites, Zakdorn and Benzites. Humans were a distinct minority.


Operations

The department used triple-redundant temporal phase discriminators in their data storage devices, called type Mark VII-T, in order to protect data integrity for comparison purposes in detecting timeline changes. The DTI Director issues monthly reports to the Federation Council on temporal issues.


The department had use of several Star Fleet starships over the years. These vessels were attached to the DTI for research and investigation purposes.