Okay, little bit of clarification on my comment there. I accept that stories involving time travel have potential. Some of them are even Star Trek related, and include some of my favourite episodes ('Timeless' in particular, which I consider one of Voyagers best episodes). At the same time, time travel stories, when done wrong, turn to complete shit, with Fridge Logic contaminating the characters involved in horrifying ways. ('Time and Again', more than a few episodes of the Temporal Cold War storyarc, and so on.) But more than that, when it comes to Star Trek, one thing that Voyager and Enterprise made very clear time after time. Those organised time travellers from the far future with timeships weren't explorers. They weren't discovering new frontiers. They were sanitation workers, cleaning up the mess time travel kept making. And worst of all, they were freaking useless at it. Reality as everyone knew it depended on people with terrifying lack of ethics, questionable intelligence, horrifying legal systems (Captain Braxon was arrested, charged and imprisoned for crimes he hadn't committed yet), and so on. And let's not start on Daniels...
That same problem has transferred over to the current story arc in STO. This entire mess with the Na'Khul, and, it turns out, damn near the entire Temporal Cold War, is because a time traveller came back, was a careless freaking idiot, and was too god damn lazy to clean up his mess, screwing over an entire civilisation in the progress. Now the present is stuck in yet another entirely pointless, incredibly freaking stupid war. Because Time Travellers are idiots. As seems to happen every single time.
Stories about time travel seem to invite bad writing. I'm starting to think the well is poisoned.
That same problem has transferred over to the current story arc in STO. This entire mess with the Na'Khul, and, it turns out, damn near the entire Temporal Cold War, is because a time traveller came back, was a careless freaking idiot, and was too god damn lazy to clean up his mess, screwing over an entire civilisation in the progress. Now the present is stuck in yet another entirely pointless, incredibly freaking stupid war. Because Time Travellers are idiots. As seems to happen every single time.
Stories about time travel seem to invite bad writing. I'm starting to think the well is poisoned.