Star Trek: Strange New Worlds | Future Secured: Preserving Star Trek's Timeline
Space may be the final frontier, but what about time?
SPOILER WARNING: Discussions for Star Trek: Strange New World Season 2's third episode, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow"!
What is the Temporal Prime Directive? This week's episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow," La’An travels back in time to 21st-Century Earth to prevent an attack which will alter humanity’s future history — and bring her face to face with her own contentious legacy.
Time-traveling Starfleet officers know that making even the smallest change in the past can irreparably change the future. Protecting the timeline from these alterations, sometimes called the Butterfly Effect, is known as the Temporal Prime Directive. There have been a handful of instances where our intrepid crew have faced preserving the timeline or restoring it after changes have been made, which we dive into in this clip from the most recent segment of The Ready Room.
