this is why time travel stories always make my head hurt...

[ratcreature]

I've been thinking about the ST:AOS timeline. Presumably it is like the TOS reality until the Kelvin is destroyed by Nero. But when I thought about that, how do the timetravel events work that have various future crews (from the regular timeline) interact with the past pre-split? Like how did the events of Star Trek: First Contact happen in the AOS reality? I mean, which version of the future characters have now ended up in the past? Or am I approaching this wrong? This makes my head hurt.

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[ratcreature]

I don't think anything could have made me more confused than before. The visualizations certainly help, the other idea with an image to explain things I've seen is that timetravel wouldn't create forks nor entirely different realities, but changes sort of "ripple" in all time directions, altering everything, or if the timetravel manages to be of the internally consistent kind the ripples would be there but the actions cancel each other out like in an interference pattern or something like that, so that the future and past away from the incidents wasn't changed.

You are very welcome to check my journal. And thanks for the well wishes for my rat. I'm just about to go drop him off with the vet for the operation, so I hope he'll get through that okay.