Not easier, maybe, but saner. [He smiles a bit ruefully. Chekov of yesterday didn't do anything ruefully.]
A Time Agent. [Just. Trying to understand a job where hopping around time is desirable.] Personally, no, I have only ever traveled forward as everyone else does. It is theoretically and even physically possible where I'm from, but the only time that it has ever happened was... unfortunate. No one sane would attempt to travel through time. [A beat.] I mean no offense.