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'''Temporal mechanics''' is the study of the workings of time and its effects on the [[space-time continuum]], and is particularly relevant when dealing with time travel.
  
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<blockquote>"''I hate temporal mechanics!''"
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As late as [[2154]], time travel was deemed impossible by the [[Vulcan_High_Command#Affiliated_Institutions|Vulcan Science Directorate]].
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: - '''Miles O'Brien''', past and future copies</blockquote>
 
  
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'''Temporal mechanics''' is the study of the workings of [[time]] and its effects on the [[space-time continuum]], and is particularly relevant when dealing with time travel. As late as [[2154]], time travel was deemed impossible by the [[Vulcan Science Directorate]].
 
  
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The [[United Federation of Planets]] has had some form of time travel ability since at least [[2268]]. It is possible that at least some of the current and future regulations regarding time travel can trace their origins back to this date. However, capability at this point was most likely inaccurate, making any attempt at time travel experimental and dangerous.
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The [[United Federation of Planets]] has had some form of time travel ability since at least [[2268]].  
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* It is possible that at least some of the current and future regulations regarding time travel can trace their origins back to this date.
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Temporal mechanics is taught at [[Starfleet Academy]].  
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Temporal mechanics is taught at [[Starfleet Academy]]. [[Julian Bashir]] took the class, where he learned about [[predestination paradox]]es, as did [[Miles O'Brien]].  Both [[Kathryn Janeway]] and [[B'Elanna Torres]] knew the 'finer points' of temporal mechanics.
 
  
 
==History==
 
==History==
  
 
===Overview===
 
===Overview===
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A historical research in [[2268]] suggests the Federation was capable of controlled time travel and used this ability at the very least for research purposes.
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* A historical research in [[2268]] suggests the Federation was capable of controlled time travel and used this ability at the very least for research purposes.
  
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As of [[2378]], at least 40 different instances of some form of time travel had been noted in Federation records. Technologically speaking, the Federation's capabilities concerning time travel have for the most part remained unclear.
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* As of [[2378]], at least 40 different instances of some form of time travel had been noted in Federation records. <br>Technologically speaking, the Federation's capabilities concerning time travel have, for the most part, remained unclear.
  
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In the [[25th century]], time travel is mostly possible but still risky.
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* In the [[25th century]], time travel is mostly possible but still risky.
  
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As of the [[26th century]], [[history|historians]] and [[anthropology|anthropologists]] used [[Time-travel pod]]s to travel through time to observe historical events.
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* As of the [[26th century]], historians and [[anthropology|anthropologists]] used time-travel "pods" to travel through time and observe historical events.
  
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===Events===
 
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[[Crewman]] [[Daniels (Crewman)|Daniels]], an alleged time traveler from the [[31st century]], showed [[Jonathan Archer]] a group of time-traveling anthropologists from [[2769]] observing the building of the [[pyramid]]s of [[Giza]].
 
  
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The {{USS|Enterprise|NCC-1701}} first experienced time travel in [[2266]] when an emergency cold starting of its warp drive slingshot the ship and crew 71 hours into the past.  
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===Noted Events===
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* [[Crewman]] Daniels, an alleged time traveler from the [[31st century]], showed [[Jonathan Archer]] his century's technology, and introduced him to the [[Temporal Cold War]].
  
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In [[2267]], after an encounter with a [[black star]], the ''Enterprise'' was hurled 300 years into the past. Eventually, the ''Enterprise'''s science officer [[Spock]] devised a method for returning the ''Enterprise'' back to its original period.
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* In [[2267]], after an encounter with a [[black hole|black star]], the ''[[USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-A|Enterprise-A]]'' was hurled 300 years into the past.  
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** Eventually, the ''Enterprise'''s science officer [[Spock]] devised a method for returning the ''Enterprise'' back to its original period.
  
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Though other instances of time travel had been noted, this appears to be the first instance of controlled time travel by the [[United Federation of Planets|Federation]].  Later that year, officers [[James T. Kirk|Kirk]], [[Spock]] and [[Leonard McCoy|McCoy]] traveled to [[Earth]]'s early [[20th century]] and back via the [[Guardian of Forever]].
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* In [[2373]] the [[USS Defiant|USS ''Defiant'']], commanded by [[Captain]] [[Benjamin Sisko]] traveled back in time to [[2268]] via the [[Bajoran]] [[Prophets#Orbs_of_the_Prophets|Orb of Time]].
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** They did this for the purpose of preventing someone from their own time assassinating [[Captain]] [[James T. Kirk]] and changing the timeline.  
  
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Sometime in [[2268]] the ''Enterprise'' traveled back in time, using the [[light-speed breakaway factor]], to [[1968]] on a historical research mission.
 
  
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In [[2286]], [[Admiral]] James T. Kirk and his senior staff took a stolen [[Klingon Bird-of-Prey]] back in time to the year [[1986]] to retrieve a pair of then (2286)-extinct [[humpback whale]]s to save Earth from destruction by an alien probe.
 
  
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In [[2371]], Captains [[Jean-Luc Picard]] and James T. Kirk use the [[Nexus]] as a means of controlled time travel, going to just before the destruction of the [[Veridian]] star, which Picard intended to save. (Picard arrived at the Nexus from just after the destruction of said star, whereas Kirk arrived from some 78 years before.
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==Known Methods==
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*[[Black hole]] in the right conditions
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*[[Nexus]]
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*[[Prophets#Orbs_of_the_Prophets|Orb of Time]]
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*[[Q (species)|Q beings]] (and their powers)
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*[[Temporal causality loop]]
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*[[Temporal transporter]]
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*[[Timeship]]s
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*[[Wormhole]]s
  
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At least once, [[Q]] took Captain Jean-Luc Picard back in time to the beginning of life on [[Earth]].  It is unknown if Q actually willed himself and Picard to the beginning of life on earth or if it was just an illusion.
 
  
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[[Quinn]] took {{USS|Voyager}} back in time to the [[Big Bang]] to hide from [[Q]].
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==Named Paradoxes==
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* '''Dali Paradox''' <br>Also known as the "melting clock effect," refers to a temporal fissure which slows the passage of time to a gradual halt.
  
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In [[2373]] the [[USS Defiant|USS ''Defiant'']], commanded by [[Captain]] [[Benjamin Sisko]] traveled back in time to [[2268]] via the [[Bajoran]] [[Orb of Time]], by an attempt by [[Arne Darvin]] to kill Captain James T. Kirk and change the timeline. The crew of the ''Defiant'' stopped Darvin without any notable damage.
 
  
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Also in 2373, an encounter with the [[29th century]] [[timeship]] ''{{MA|Aeon|Aeon}}'' threw ''Voyager'' back to an alternate [[1996]]. History was set right when Captain Janeway destroyed the timeship before it could travel to the future and accidentally cause a [[temporal explosion]]. ''Voyager'' was returned to the correct time by an alternate version of the ''Aeon'' from the correct timeline.  
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* '''Grandfather paradox''' <br>The idea that if a person travels to a time before their grandfather had children, and kills him, it would make their own birth impossible.
  
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An alternate future version of Captain Janeway (from [[2404]]) traveled back to [[2378]] to bring ''Voyager'' home from the [[Delta Quadrant]] 16 years earlier then it had arrived in that alternate future. This future Janeway was killed in the attempt but succeeded in returning ''Voyager'' home and even delivered a crippling if not fatal blow to the [[Borg]].
 
  
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===Temporal Cold War===
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* '''Pogo Paradox''' <br>A causality loop, in which interference to prevent an event through the use of time travel actually triggers the same event.
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The events of the [[Temporal Cold War]] further complicate the understanding of Federation time travel capabilities.
 
  
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As of the [[29th century]], a time traveling faction represented by a [[Future Guy|mysterious individual]], could only communicate and exchange information and technologies through time, appearing as a non-corporeal entities. By the [[31st century]], this technology was perfected to allow physical travel.
 
  
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According to Daniels, all time travelers were bound by the observance of strict procedures set forth in the [[Temporal Accords]]. Daniels stated that the Temporal Accords were enacted after time travel was developed by all time travel–capable species to prevent catastrophic tampering with the [[timeline]].
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* '''Predestination paradox''' <br>When an event of time travel could become part of events which had already occurred, and could even lead to the initial event of time travel in the first place. <br>''"it was supposed to happen this way all along"''
  
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By [[2153]], the [[Sphere Builder]]s, a group previously thought to possess the ability only to examine alternate timelines, sent [[Xindi-Reptilian]]s back to 21st century Detroit to develop a [[Xindi bioweapon|bioweapon]] to destroy the [[Human]] race.
 
  
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:''Because the Sphere Builders exist in a separate dimension, they may not have had any involvement in the creation of the Temporal Accords.''
 
  
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Ultimately the war ended when the [[Na'kuhl]] returned from an alternate [[1944]] (created by their very actions) and caused the Cold War to go hot with time-travelers changing time as they liked. Daniels brought ''Enterprise'' and Archer back to 1944 to stop [[Vosk]], leader of the Nak'uhl, from returning to the future. With the help of [[Silik]], a member of another faction of the Temporal Cold War, Archer shut off Vosk's compound's [[shields]], allowing ''Enterprise'' to destroy it and thus destroying the [[temporal conduit]] and killing Vosk just as he was about to travel back to the future. Daniels pulled Archer to a place where they watched the [[time stream]] as all of the events that occurred when the Temporal Cold War went hot were undone and time reset itself to normal. Archer refused to have anything to do anymore with Daniels' "damn Temporal Cold War" and Daniels agreed, claiming it was finally coming to an end thanks to Archer's actions.
 
  
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==Methods==
 
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*[[Black hole]] created by [[red matter]]
 
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*[[Light-speed breakaway factor]] (Slingshot effect)
 
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*[[Nexus]]
 
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*[[Orb of Time]]
 
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*[[Q]] powers
 
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*[[Temporal causality loop]]
 
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*[[Temporal conduit]]
 
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*[[Temporal transporter]]
 
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*[[Temporal vortex]]
 
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*[[Time portal]]
 
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*[[Timeship]]s
 
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*[[Wormhole]]s
 
  
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==Paradoxes==
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*[[Dali Paradox]]
 
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*[[Grandfather paradox]]
 
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*[[Pogo Paradox]]
 
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Latest revision as of 01:23, 3 November 2021

Temporal mechanics is the study of the workings of time and its effects on the space-time continuum, and is particularly relevant when dealing with time travel.

As late as 2154, time travel was deemed impossible by the Vulcan Science Directorate.


The United Federation of Planets has had some form of time travel ability since at least 2268.

  • It is possible that at least some of the current and future regulations regarding time travel can trace their origins back to this date.


Temporal mechanics is taught at Starfleet Academy.


History

Overview

  • A historical research in 2268 suggests the Federation was capable of controlled time travel and used this ability at the very least for research purposes.
  • As of 2378, at least 40 different instances of some form of time travel had been noted in Federation records.
    Technologically speaking, the Federation's capabilities concerning time travel have, for the most part, remained unclear.
  • In the 25th century, time travel is mostly possible but still risky.


Noted Events

  • In 2267, after an encounter with a black star, the Enterprise-A was hurled 300 years into the past.
    • Eventually, the Enterprise's science officer Spock devised a method for returning the Enterprise back to its original period.


Known Methods


Named Paradoxes

  • Dali Paradox
    Also known as the "melting clock effect," refers to a temporal fissure which slows the passage of time to a gradual halt.


  • Grandfather paradox
    The idea that if a person travels to a time before their grandfather had children, and kills him, it would make their own birth impossible.


  • Pogo Paradox
    A causality loop, in which interference to prevent an event through the use of time travel actually triggers the same event.


  • Predestination paradox
    When an event of time travel could become part of events which had already occurred, and could even lead to the initial event of time travel in the first place.
    "it was supposed to happen this way all along"
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