William T. Riker (![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} 1stofficer) wrote in ![[info]](https://www.insanejournal.com/img/community.gif){kind=small} marinanova, |
Do these kinds of clustered retrievals happen often, Data? Not just from our reality, but perhaps from others? I've noticed that people who have been brought here often seem to know each other, such as ourselves, making not just the reality suspicious, but some sort of--my first guess would be timeline related. [ A pause. ] Actually that's exactly what it reminds me of: Old Earth temporal physics.
[ That an object is effectively a medium of time travel, and its set timeline moves about in space interacting with other timelines, and effectively creating a web that touches every place in space and time. If one were to theoretically travel down one of those lines, it might be possible to come into contact with each of the people brought here from each reality, from where their timelines bounced off each other: for instance, the Enterprise had been the first ship to reach Voyager when it returned from the Delta Quadrant. The connections were there, and the flash of good intentioned energy in Riker's eyes betrayed his excursion into a proper philosophical challenge. ]