Quote:Star Ranger4 wrote:No, if we hadn't been able to time travel, it wouldn't have created a stable time loop where Sela screwed everything up for everyone, all the Iconians would have died on Iconia, and the entire war that, according to the devs but never really seen by the player, hundreds of worlds burned and billions died, would never even have happened. Also, an entire species wouldn't have been turned into a galactic threat that, thanks to time travel, endangered the galaxy in the 23rd and 26th centuries, and are now 'on the move'. Seriously, time travel is something only very good writers should use, very carefully. The writers of the Iconian war were not up to the challenge made a very big mistake there. And then season 11, which was promised to be more about exploration, lasted about half a mission before bringing more time travel in!
Well... That depends on your PoV. If we hadn't saved the Krenim, we'd not have been able to send certain folk back and THAT is what ended the war. Its not like we were going to win militarily, at least not to me.
At the moment, this as a feeling of something that Has to happen, to actually preserve the timeline.
And as a side note, we didn't win. The Iconians did. It's just that, at the last second, most of them changed their mind about killing all of us and went back home. One of them decided no, she wanted to stay behind and use her army of Heralds to kill everyone, and the rest went 'Well, maybe you'll calm down in a few centuries T'Ket. We'll let you get it out of your system.' There was no justice for the Hobus supernova, for the false flag attacks on the Undine intended to turn them against the Alpha Quadrant. For the Elachi. For the near destruction of New Romulus with the activation of the gate found there. For the infiltration of the Vaadwaur and controlling them into a war that devastated the Delta Quadrant. The murder of the Klingon High Council, the Preservers, Starbase 234, the death and destruction on New Romulus and entire colonies that vanished because of T'Ket's grudge against one person they'd already captured. They won. We just didn't die.