![]() (Maybe everyone got lucky and Nero's incursion and creation of a new timeline resulted in no more Starfleet Time Cops!) Beyond that, even if they wanted to change it, Nero's future would no longer exist, so they'd have to stop him in the past, and they don't have the armament to do that without even worse losses than they've already suffered, which would mean more damage to the timeline.Īs to why the Time Cops (Captain Braxton and the USS Relativity as seen in Voyager) didn't show up, that's anyone's call, but it might also have something to do with changes that happened during the Temporal Cold War that was covered in Enterprise. In other words, all those (other than Spock) who know about the incursion and change have every reason to want to keep the changes in place. The timeline would have been even more changed than it already is. Not being able to stop Nero in the future would mean stopping him in the past, but even though the Narada was only a mining ship, it was so large and its weapons were so advanced, it would have taken many starships to stop it, which would have resulted in many more casualties than just the Kelvin being destroyed. That can't be done by going to the future, since the changes in the timeline would not produce the same Nero that came back in time. Since the timeline had been altered, the only way to fix it would be to stop Nero. The "incursion" was from someone else, in the future, not something done by anyone who has learned about the issue and could do anything (other than Spock). This wasn't a case where anyone from the original timeline could change it back because they're at the point (in time and space) where the change happened. The event that changed it (Nero destroying the Kelvin) was 20 years before anyone knew they were in an alternate timeline. They would lose their lives, memories, and everything in their lives if the timeline were reset. Other than Spock, everyone involved had more to gain than lose by not resetting it. They would lose their lives, memories, and everything in their lives if the timeline were not reset. Either the characters in the story made the change (usually accidentally), or they were there when the change was made.Īlso, in other situations, those taking on the responsibility to reset the timeline had more to gain than lose by resetting it. In other Trek situations, the timeline change had an immediacy to it. In Universe (Looking at all the factors): ![]() (This is like what supposedly happened in Terra Nova for example.) You fork a timeline, there's still the original as well as the fork. Now we see it more as alternate timelines. We used to see it as there being one timestream and if it was changed, everything in the original version was lost. With changes in the world of science, we look at time differently now.It was to reboot the franchise so new people would be interested and to remove the baggage from 28 years of TV and 10 movies.Let's get the two out-of-universe answers out of the way so we can see the real reasons in the universe. There were a number of different issues at play here.
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