If you are seeing this paragraph, the site is not displaying correctly. You can see the content, but your current browser does not support CSS which is necessary to view our site properly. For the best visual experience, you will need to upgrade your browser to Netscape 6.0 or higher, MSIE 5.5 or higher, or Opera 3.6 or higher. If, however, you don't wish to upgrade your browser, scroll down and read the content - everything is still visible, it just doesn't look as pretty.

Time Will Tell - Pt 6

Author - Evalyn A.
Fan Fiction Main Page | Stories sorted by title, author, genre, and rating

Time will tell

By Evalyn A

Rating: T POV, G. May be archived, just let me know.
Disclaimer: Not making a dime off of this, they belong to Paramount, they don’t belong to me, although finally they’re starting to act as if they did.
A/N: This is the part of a continuing series of personal log entries made by T’Pol during her time on Enterprise, starting with season one.

************************

Part 6


Time travel is impossible.

There is little to be gained by once again going over in my mind the recent unsettling events, some of which have left me forced to spend extra hours in my quarters, in quiet recovery. Nevertheless, since I am forced to be here, it is a distracting intellectual exercise to attempt to rationalize the events of the past few days.

Captain Archer claims to have been to the 31st century. He also claims to have been sent by Daniels to his own apartment in San Francisco, ten months ago. While he was there, he had conversations with Daniels, who himself claims to travel freely through time. If one starts with the postulate that time travel is possible, then these facts do not themselves cause me to doubt.

But in his apartment, the Captain also had conversations that replicated those he had had there ten months ago. Where, then, was the Archer that first had those conversations? Did he simply disappear for a few hours only to reappear when our Archer returned here? Or would that timeline simply disappear entirely? Why, when the Captain apparently was removed from Enterprise in order to have this “trip to the past”, would he not reappear as soon as he left, instead of being gone for hours? Why, if Captain Archer’s disappearance from Enterprise caused the disappearance of Daniels’ civilization in the 31st century, did Daniels not disappear also? Even assuming unknown motives and technologies, the events as related by Captain Archer do not pass any simple tests of logic.

A more rational approach is to assume that some faction that Daniels represents, possessing superior technology, kidnapped Captain Archer using a method of instantaneous transportation. They then tapped into his memories, probably using some form of psychoactive drug, in order to create the illusion of conversations in the past and the future, illusions that lacked logical consistency due to the difficulties in successfully manipulating the mind. This explanation would be consistent with the necessity of the Captain’s prolonged absence from Enterprise, the unusual energy readings that surrounded his disappearance and reappearance, as well as his irrational conviction that these events transpired, even though they are patently absurd.

But this latter explanation is accompanied by an entirely unknown purpose, and although I speculate, I cannot develop one. Why dupe Captain Archer? Why would Daniels’ faction, clearly possessing superior technology, be in a conflict with the Suliban, whose technology appears only slightly superior to ours? It is, in fact, an interesting paradox that the only scientifically consistent explanation for these events is accompanied by no logical purpose, whereas if one were to accept the entirely irrational premise of time travel and the events that went with it, then the explanation for the remaining events – a temporal cold war in which warring factions from the future try to ensure an appropriate outcome for their side – does appear to follow more or less logically, even if the events themselves appear to make no sense.

Perhaps there is a third explanation that I have missed. Perhaps Mr. Daniels or the Suliban will eventually tell us the truth and we will finally understand. Or, to quote one of Mr. Tucker’s more colourful expressions, “Perhaps pigs will fly.” In any event, it is apparent that I will need to remain the voice of reason in our dealings with these groups, given what has transpired.

And who knows. Perhaps I will yet find that the Vulcan Science Directorate is in error. If so, I do not plan to be the one to tell them.


TBC …



Continue to Part 7

Return to Part 5

Back to Fan Fiction Main Menu

Have a comment to make about this story? Do so in the Trip Fan Fiction forum at the HoTBBS!


Two folks have made comments

HAHAHAHAHAH! OH VERY GOOD. vERY MUCH LIKED THE TRIPISM AND T'POL'S FINAL STATMENT.

oops cap lock stuck!

Yay for T'Pol, and logical reasoning! I love these log entries, they give a new perspective into the episodes...