Here's a list of possible
ways to travel through time:
1. Cold Mix Antimatter Implosion - done
only once as
far as I know and probably can't be duplicated
reliably.
"The Naked Time" [TOS]
2. Light Speed Breakaway
Factor
(also known as the "Slingshot
effect")
- traveling at high warp
around a
massive gravitational object such as a star
or
black hole.
"Tomorrow is Yesterday" [TOS], "Assignment: Earth" [TOS],
"The Voyage Home" [ST4]
3. Portals -
The Guardian of Forever
- "City
on the Edge of Forever" [TOS]
The Bajoran portal that
Molly fell through
- "Time's Orphan" [DS9]
The Atavachron
- "All Our Yesterdays" [TOS]
4. Superbeings
- beings that have made the connection between thought and space, time,
reality, etc.
like Q,
or the Traveler, and Wesley.
"Where No One Has Gone Before" [TNG], "Remember Me" [TNG],
5. Nexus - the Nexus from "Generations" [ST7]
6. The Manheim Effect - "We'll Always Have Paris" [TNG]
7. Rifts - the rift from "Cause & Effect" [TNG]
8. Kerr loop of superstring
material
- from "Yesterday's
9. Alien beings living in
artificial
quantum singularity & Power transfer from one ship to
another
"Timescape" [TNG]
10. Asynchronous time plane
-
time is out of phase with normal time:
"Time Squared" [TNG], "Time's Arrow" [TNG]
11. Quantum fissure
- Worf
jumps to alternate timelines when exposed to Geordi's visor.
"Parallels" [TNG]
12. Wormholes -
Voyager's
microwormhole.
"Eye of
the Needle" [VOY]
DS9's wormhole.
13. Transporter accidents
-
transport through a chroniton
field as a
micro-singularity passes through
a solar
system.
"Past Tense" [DS9]
14. Kemocite
- reaction with energy like
atomic explosion and warp drive malfunction
with kemosite.
"Little Green Men" [DS9]
15. Bajoran Orb of Time
-
"Trials and Tribbleations" [DS9],
"Wrongs darker than Death or Night" [DS9]
16. Unusual Energy region
around a
planet - Sisko
& crew meet their own descendants.
"Children of Time" [DS9]
subspace
signals are sent forward and backward
through time
when passing through an energy field.
"The Sound of Her Voice" [DS9]
17. Surge in DS9 wormhole
gravimetric field reacts with warp
core
breach in Defiant.
"Visitor" [DS9]
18. Tetryon
particles react with
residual
delta radiation in human tissue - O'Brien.
"Visionary" [DS9]
19. Borg -
temporal vortex or
bubble? "First Contact" [ST8]
temporal communicator.
"Timeless" [VOY]
20. Time Ships -
21st century Rasmussen stole one and
traveled to the
24th century.
"A Matter of Time" [TNG]
Relativity -
Aeon
- 20th
century Entrepreneur Starling steals this timeship.
"Future's End" [VOY]
Krennim technology - Temporal
incursions and the time ship.
"Year of Hell" [VOY]
Chroniton torpedoes:
Kes lives
life backward because of the effects one had on her.
"Before and After" [VOY]
21. Temporal fissure -
caused by a polaric
ion explosion.
"Time and Again" [VOY]
22. Alien timeline,
warpcore breach, and transporter - Kim.
"Non Sequitor" [VOY]
23. Different rates of time
in alternate universes, etc. -
Voyager
went to a planet which was caught in
a region of space where time traveled faster than
the rest
of the universe.
24.
Ophidian.
"Time's Arrow" [TNG]
Time Travel related Concepts:
Accord -
According to Daniels, All
species that had time travel agreed in a Temporal Accord
it would
only be used for research. "Cold Front"
[ENT]
SEE Also: Temporal
Prime
Directive.
Alternate Universe:
A
timestream which splits off from a past event and
progresses in a different manner from the base
timestream.
Anomaly:
Any
discrepancy in the flow of time.
Q says that
he can't cause temporal anomalies
anymore
without considering the impact they will have
on his
son.
"The Q and the Grey" [VOY]
Chakotay
and Janeway find no evidence of a temporal
anomaly
even though they seem to be
experiencing a repeating time loop; the temporal
anomaly
exerts some sort of gravitometric force on
the shuttle
so that they are unable to break free.
"Coda" [VOY]
Chakotay
orders the crew to scan for temporal
anomalies in
case this is what is causing Kes to
experience
events in
reverse.
"Before and After" [VOY]
Anti-Time:
A
theoretical progressive Temporal Rupture which
progresses
backwards in time annihilating all
congruent
timelines. First
proposed by
Jean-Luc Picard, who claimed in 2371 to have experienced
an Anti-Time rupture caused by the Q.
Chroniton:
An
elementary quantum particle associated with the
flow of
time. A buildup of Chronitons can
signal a
Temporal Anomaly.
Cold War - Daniel's
side believes that
the 22nd century is a front in the "temporal cold war".
"Cold Front" [ENT]
Compensator (tachyon
planet): gotana-retz: a temporal
compensator allows existence in
galactic time
frame
without leaving tachyon planet time frame.
"Blink of an Eye" [VOY]
Conduit:
A Temporal
Conduit is a fixed temporal wormhole
linking two
points in space-time. Generally, both
ends of the
conduit move forward in time, usually at
the
same rate. These are referred to as Stable
Temporal
Conduits. Occasionally, one end will
move
backwards in time. Conduits where the "past"
end moves
forward in time faster than the "future"
end, or where the "future" end moves backward
while the
"past" end moves forward will eventually
close.
Vosk attempted to
create a stable
temporal conduit to travel back to the future and defeat Daniel's
people in a
Temporal War. He was stopped by
the
"Stormfront" [ENT]
Core - The temporal
core of the time-ship
keeps the ship out of phase with normal space-time;
if the core is offline,
the ship's shields are incredibly weak
and a
photon grenade could penetrate
the hull; Obrist takes the temporal
core
offline; Paris transmits the exact location of the core
to Voyager; after
Voyager collides with the time-ship, the
temporal core
destabilizes and this
causes a temporal
incursion within the ship.
"Year of Hell, Part 2" [VOY]
Dali
paradox -
Also known
as the Melting Clock Effect. It
refers to
a temporal fissure which slows the passage of
time to a
gradual
halt.
"Relativity" [VOY]
Disruption:
A major
change in a timeline caused by an action by
a time traveler
or their prevention of an action.
Extremely
difficult to detect and prove.
Disruptor: force 3 -
A Temporal Disruptor
emits temporal distortions - Captain Braxton planted one
aboard the
USS
Voyager.
"Relativity" [VOY]
Drag:
Temporal
Drag is the tendency for the timeline to
resist
change. Known
colloquially by DTI and
later Timefleet as the
Inevitability Factor.
Explosion - Braxton
tells Janeway that
Voyager is responsible for a temporal explosion in the 29th century
which will
destroy all of Earth's solar system; the
explosion will occur if the timeship's temporal matrix
is not
precisely calibrated when it goes through the
spatial
rift.
"Future's End, Part 1" [VOY]
Fissure:
A rip in
the space-time continuum, exiting into a
Temporal
Bubble, Conduit,
Fissure may
be created by a number of subspace
disruptions,
typically a high energy discharge
(such as an
antimatter detonation) in a high-gravity
environment, such as a stellar corona or near a
singularity. SEE Also: Dali Paradox.
Grandfather Paradox:
A
pre-Temporal Mechanics misconception about the
nature of
causality. In the Grandfather Paradox,
a Time
Traveler accidentally kills his own
grandfather or
otherwise prevents his own birth, thus
preventing
him from killing his grandfather, thus
allowing
him to kill his grandfather, thus preventing . . .
and so on.
This type of Temporal Loop does not occur
because
the Time Traveler’s existence and
actions are
not negated by his actions - in reality,
the
prevention of one's own birth merely results in
the
creation of an alternate timeline in which the
subject
never existed. Traveling back to the future
along this
timeline merely results in the traveler
having no
past in the local timeline. In every respect,
it is
simply as if he had traveled to an Alternate
Universe.
Incursions -
The
temporal incursion at the Zahl
homeworld results in a 98% restoration of the Krenim
Imperium;
the
temporal incursion at the Garenor
homeworld causes the Krenim
Imperium to
revert back
to a
prewarp
state; Voyager is unaffected by this
incursion
because of their temporal shielding.
"Year of Hell, part 1" [VOY]
The
temporal incursion at the Ram Izad
homeworld results in a 52% restoration of the Krenim
timeline;
Annorax lost his wife
during the
2nd temporal incursion when the colony on Kyana
Prime
was
eradicated;
after Voyager collides with the
time-ship, the
temporal core destabilizes and this causes
a temporal
incursion within the ship; this incursion
restores Voyager to its original state before they
entered Krenim
space.
"Year of Hell, part 2" [VOY]
Janeway has
been responsible for 3 major temporal
incursions... violations of the timeline that Capt.
Braxton had
to
repair.
"Relativity" [VOY]
Inertia:
The tendency for minor temporal changes
to
"mend" themselves.
Integrity Commission
- Braxton says that
the Temporal Integrity Commission scans time and
detected
Voyager over 20th century Earth and sent
him to
return Voyager back to their previous
coordinates
in the Delta
Quadrant. "Future's End, part 2" [VOY]
Inversion -
A temporal
inversion occurred in the Takara
sector. Captain Braxton repaired it. It was one of
the
causes of
Braxton's temporal psychosis.
"Relativity" [VOY]
SEE Also: Time
Stream.
Light Speed
Breakaway Factor (also
known as the "Slingshot
effect") -
A method of
achieving time travel by entering a
high-gravity
environment (such as a stellar corona or
the
vicinity of a black hole) at high warp
velocities,
typically 1000c or higher (WF 8.0+).
"Tomorrow is Yesterday" [TOS], "Assignment: Earth" [TOS],
"The Voyage Home" [ST4]
A Temporal
Conduit which folds back upon itself,
causing a
repeated Predestination Paradox. Unless
the loop is
detected and the past Temporal
Disruption
repaired of prevented, it will become an
unrepairable Closed Temporal Loop. SEE
Also:
Pogo Paradox.
Matrix - If the
timeship's temporal
matrix is not precisely calibrated when it goes through
the
spatial rift, it will trigger a temporal
explosion
that will rip the time-space continuum apart.
"Future's End, part 1" [VOY]
Mechanics - Janeway
says that one of the
more difficult concepts to grasp in temporal
mechanics is that cause can precede effect.
"Parallax" [VOY]
Chakotay
says that he failed Professor Vasbinder's
course on temporal mechanics.
"Year of Hell, part 2" [VOY]
Nexus:
A point in
space-time which is especially temporally
"active." Events or beings from other space-time
coordinates
tend to intrude on this point.
Observatory -
Daniels pulls an ovoid
suitcase from his locker and removes an ovoid device.
Activated,
he calls the surrounding holographic
display
"a temporal observatory". He identifies
one node as
anthropologists from 2769 watching the
construction of the Great Pyramid at
"Cold Front" [ENT]
Paradox:
An apparent
break in temporal causality where the
cause of
an event follows or appears to follow the
event
itself.
SEE:
Grandfather Paradox, Dali Paradox, Pogo
Paradox,
Predestination Paradox,
Parallel
Universe:
A
timestream which resembles the base timestream,
but where
similar events occur for wildly different
reasons. The so-called Mirror Universe in
2266 was a
Parallel Universe, but because of a change made
by James T.
Kirk in that timeline it was an
Alternate
Universe by 2370 (although still retaining many
features of
a Parallel Universe).
Phase Discriminator:
A device
which manipulates subspace to keep an FTL
computer
logic circuit in synchronization with
the local
space-time continuum. A Phase
Discriminator can be
modified to project a field which can
take an
object or being out of phase with the local
timestream.
Physics:
Temporal Physics is the branch of
Quantum
Physics dealing with time.
Pogo Paradox -
A causality
loop in which interference to prevent an
event
actually triggers the same event. An example
of this
type of paradox --
The
Borg once traveled back in time to stop Zefram Cochrane from breaking
the warp
barrier. They succeeded, but that in turn
led the
Starship Enterprise to intervene. They
assisted
Cochrane with the flight the Borg was
trying to
prevent. Causal
loop complete.
"Relativity" [VOY]
Portal:
One end of
a temporal conduit.
One
temporal portal was a device left behind on Golana by a mysterious civilization that
vanished
2000 years
ago. It had grown unstable when Molly
O'Brien
fell through it in 2374 and ended up
300 years
in the past. When she returned she was 10
years
older.
"Time's Orphan" [DS9]
Predestination Paradox:
A
Predestination Paradox occurs when a traveler from
the
future unwittingly causes an event which
had already
happened in his/her past.
Prime directive -
Braxton says that he
can't return Voyager back to the Alpha Quadrant because of the
Temporal
Prime
Directive.
"Future's End, part 2" [VOY]
Quantum Fissure:
A fixed
point in the space-time continuum opening a
doorway
into other quantum realities. A person
or object
entering a quantum fissure will shift to
different
realities randomly.
Reflection - Torres
and Janeway encounter
a temporal reflection of Voyager after they return
from
widening the rupture in the event horizon.
"Parallax" [VOY]
Repair:
An attempt
by a time traveler to reverse or prevent
a
Temporal Disruption. Temporal Disruptions
have a high
Temporal Drag, making them difficult to
reverse,
but if a change in successful, Temporal
Inertia
tends to make it take hold.
Rupture:
A breakdown
of both Temporal Drag and Temporal
Inertia surrounding
a Temporal Nexus, causing
multiple
Parallel and Alternate Timelines to either
manifest
or annihilate one another. Generally
considered unrepairable.
Shielding - Tuvok
tries to construct a
temporal shielding for Voyager but he fails; Seven is
able to
construct this shielding by matching
Voyager's
shields to the temporal variance of the
torpedoes
and matching the deflector array to the
inverse of
that variance; they test the shielding in
battle and
it is successful; Voyager's temporal
shielding
has thrown off the calculations for the
temporal
incursion at the Garenor
homeworld and caused the Krenim Imperium
to revert
back to a
prewarp
state; Obrist
says that
Voyager's shielding is generating a Level 9 temporal disruption.
"Year of Hell, part 1" [VOY]
The crew
equips the Nihydron
and Mawasi ships with temporal shielding
to protect them when
they
attack the
time-ship; Chakotay tells Annorax
that if Janeway gave the temporal shielding to the
Nihydron and the Mawasi, they will be able to protect
their
homeworlds from Annorax's
weapon;
Janeway
tells Tuvok to have the Mawasi
and Nihydron ships take their temporal
shielding
offline
hoping that
when Voyager destroys the time-ship all
history
will be restored.
"Year of Hell, part 2" [VOY]
Slingshot Effect
SEE: Light-Speed
Breakaway Factor.
Time-ship - Type of
spacecraft, built for
time travel.
21st
century Rasmussen stole one and traveled to the
24th
century.
"A Matter of Time" [TNG]
Krenim time-ship -
Annorax is captain of a
time-ship;
the Krenim use the time-ship to initiate
temporal
incursions hoping
to change
the Krenim
timeline; Kim
says that Annorax's
vessel is in a state
of temporal
flux as if it
exists
outside space-time; because of its mass, the
time-ship can't exceed Warp 6.
"Year of Hell, part 1" [VOY]
Annorax says that the
ship is more
than a weapon, but also a museum of lost histories; the temporal
core of the
time-ship keeps the ship out of phase
with
normal space-time; if the core is offline, the
ship's
shields are incredibly weak and a photon
grenade
could penetrate the hull; the crew of the time-
ship are
not happy since they've been on this
mission for
200 years; after Obrist
takes the temporal
core
offline, the time-ship phases back to normal
space-time; a temporal incursion occurs on the
time-ship
when the temporal core destabilizes.
"Year of Hell, part 2" [VOY]
The main task of 29th
century
Federation time-ships is to support the Federation's 'time patrol':
time
sensors
scan the space time continuum, seeking for
time
manipulations in past or future.
Aeon
-
Voyager
encountered the Federation timeship Aeon. In Voyager's case, Aeon
had the mission to
destroy
Voyager, because Voyager was held
responsible
indirectly for a time explosion in the 29th
century.
This class
of timeship navigates through time by
artificially generated temporal rifts. They appear
as normal
rifts in space time, but with a graviton
matrix.
Anyone sucked in the rift will end in the time
when the
rift was created. In case of Voyager,
something
went wrong and Voyager appeared in 1996,
near Earth,
at the other side of the rift.
"Future's End, part 1" [VOY]
Relativity
-
"Relativity" [VOY]
Time
stream - A
temporal inversion fold in space-time which is spread across the galaxy.
Anyone
entering
the timestream appears in an alternative
timeline. Kim was transported to an alternate reality
when his
shuttle intersected one of these time
streams; Cosimo says that this time stream
weaves
through the
galaxy like a thread; Cosimo
gives Kim a disc that shows where the time stream intersects
this region
of space; Kim returns to his reality by
recreating everything that happened as he intersected
the time
stream the first
time.
"Non Sequitur" [VOY]
Time Traveler:
A being or object which has moved or is
capable
of moving outside the normal flow of time.
Transceiver - (borg,
salvage component 36698, slipstream timeline): Communication device
which sends
transmissions back or forward through
time. A Borg temporal transceiver was stolen
by Kim,
Chakotay and Omand
in an
alternate timeline, around 2390, and used to send a transmission
into the
past to the Borg interplexing beacon of
Seven of
Nine. This prevented Voyager from crashing
on an class-L ice planet
when they
were kicked out of the slipstream.
"Timeless" [VOY]
Transponder - There
was a temporal
transponder in the truck that was set to give off the
tachyon
emissions to make Voyager think that the
timeship
was in the truck.
"Future's End, part 2" [VOY]
Transport beacon -
seven relativity: from
utopia planetia
shipyards - chronoton
flux: 0.003 -
seven
relativity: temporal disruptor interferes,
damages bionetic implants
seven relativity: ducane
recruits
"Relativity" [VOY]
Variance - The
Doctor believes that he
can purge Kes's
body of the remaining chronton
particles
if he knows the precise temporal variance
of the
torpedo that contanimated the ship
with chronoton
radiation.
"Before and After"
[VOY]
The
temporal variance of the chronoton
torpedo is 1.47 microseconds; Seven is able to construct
temporal
shielding around Voyager by matching the
ship's
shields to the temporal variance of the
chronoton torpedoes and
matching
the deflector array to the inverse of that variance.
"Year of Hell, part 1" [VOY]
Vortex - A time
spanning conduit created
by the controlled emission of chronometric
particles. The temporal vortex is the
method of
time travel utilized by the Borg.
"First Contact" [ST8]
