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]

Though isn't the First Contact scenario different? I mean, it would not be their own timetravel event that makes their universe impossible. Augh.

I suppose I just have to assume that there is something in the ST universe(s) that causes the overall gestalt of events to stay similar and makes sure that things stay internally consistent as the inhabitants perceive it, in that certain connected events change in tandem across times and then the overall timeline of the AOS universe might align itself somehow.