Nevermind all that. Now on to the discussions.....
In this episode, Worf meets a Klingon named K'mtar who claims to be a family friend and was sent by Worf's brother Kurn to protect against an attack on Worf and his family. K'mtar was later revealed to be Alexander, Worf's son, who came from forty years in the future.
In this Alexander's future, Alexander had grown up to be a diplomat and a peacemaker. He had sought to end the destructive feuding between the great Klingon houses, but Alexander's efforts tragically led to Worf's murder on the floor of the Klingon High Council. Filled with remorse, Alexander traveled back in time from the year 2410 to 2370 in an attempt to cause his younger self to become a Klingon warrior and lead a different life, possibly one which may not lead to Worf's murder.
Assuming that the alternate future experienced by Picard was not just an illusion created by Q, in this episode, Picard was brought 25 years into the future, to the year 2395, to investigate the anti-time phenomenon and hopefully save humanity.
In this future, the Klingon Empire had conquered the Romulans, and the neutral zone between the Romulan Star Empire and the Federation ceased to exist by 2395. Relations between the Klingons and the Federation had deteriorated as well. The Klingons had a new, larger, much more powerful class of attack cruiser in service.
Captain Jean-Luc Picard married Dr. Beverly Crusher, but they later divorced, though Beverly chose to keep the Picard family name. Picard resigned from Starfleet in 2370 to become a Federation ambassador. He finally retired in 2386 and went to live on his family farm in France. By 2395, Picard had advanced Irumodic Syndrome, a degenerative disorder that causes irreversible damage to the nervous system. Dr. Beverly Picard became the captain of the USS Pasteur, which was destroyed in 2395 when it was attacked by the Klingons in the Devron System.
Starfleet had recalibrated the warp scale for some reason, so in 2395, it was not uncommon for a starship to be travelling at warp 13. Both the USS Enteprise-D and USS Pasteur travelled at warp 13 in the episode. Some Federation starships are apparently equipped with the cloaking device since Worf suggested that Riker could have provided Picard with such a starship for his mission.
By 2375, Worf accepted an appointment as Federation Ambassador to the Klingon Empire, presumably marking his further involvement in Klingon politics. ("What You Leave Behind" [DS9]). However by 2379, Worf had returned to Starfleet, serving as tactical officer onboard the USS Enterprise-E. By 2379, Riker has been promoted to captain of the USS Titan, probably the first step towards an eventual admiralcy. Riker has also married Deanna Troi, who joins him aboard the USS Titan. (Star Trek Nemesis).
On the other hand, the USS Enterprise-D was destroyed in 2371 (Star Trek Generations), suggesting that at least some things will be different from the future timeline glimpsed by Picard. Also, Data was apparently killed in 2379 (Star Trek Nemesis), Deanna Troi remains alive, and Picard is still a captain, probably having taken the advice of Captain Kirk, not to allow himself to be taken away from the command of a starship.
(2371 - 23??)
(c. 2395)
In 2372, Benjamin Sisko apparently died in a warp core accident onboard the USS Defiant. It was later revealed that the accident had created a subspace link between Sisko and his son Jake, which periodically draws Sisko in and out of subspace. Sisko later manages to return in time and prevent the accident from happening, with help from a future Jake. In preventing the accident, Sisko excised the future in which he died in 2372 from existence. Here, I shall discuss about the various elements that have presented themselves in this alternate future.
In this future, the Federation abandoned station Deep Space 9 to Klingon control in 2373, while Bajor had entered into a mutual defense pact with Cardassia against the Klingons. Jake Sisko grew up to become a successful author and married a Bajoran woman, Korena, in 2384. After Benjamin Sisko reappeared again in 2391, Jake resolved himself to rescue his father from subspace. He abandoned his writing career and studied subspace mechanics, and his marriage with Korena fell apart.
Jake Sisko attempted a rescue mission in 2405. Capt. Nog managed to obtain the USS Defiant for the mission. The USS Defiant had already been decomissioned by then. Worf has also managed to get permission from the Klingon High Council for the mission. The rescue attempt ultimately failed. At a later time, when Jake was an old man, he finally succeeds to return Ben Sisko to the time of the accident by ending his own life.
From the alternate futures as seen in both "All Good Things..." (TNG) and "The Visitor" (DS9), we can see that relations between the Klingon Empire and the Federation had deteriorated quite significantly. We can also see that Worf may take a further involvement in Klingon politics and quite possibly become a member of the Klingon High Council itself. This is also suggested by "Firstborn" (TNG).
Nog had enrolled into Starfleet Academy in 2372 ("Little Green Men" [DS9]). He became an ensign through a battlefield comission during the Dominion War in 2374 ("Favor the Bold" [DS9]), and was promoted to lieutenant in 2375 ("What You Leave Behind" [DS9]). There is no doubt that Nog will continue to rise through the ranks.
Unfortunately, Jadzia Dax was killed in 2374 ("Tears of the Prophets" [DS9]), meaning that at least this element will not come to pass.
(2366 - 2372)
(2373 - 23??)
In this episode, a Capt. Braxton from the 29th century travelled back in time to 2373 in an attempt to destroy the USS Voyager, which he believed would be responsible for a temporal explosion that would destroy Earth's solar system in the 29th century. Piloting the Federation timeship Aeon, Braxton attacked the USS Voyager, but his attempt resulted in his ship being thrown back in time, where it crashed landed on Earth in 1967. Braxton survived the crash, but was separated from his ship. Meanwhile, a man called Henry Starling salvaged the Aeon and exploited its technology over the next three decades.
The Aeon's attack on the USS Voyager had also caused the Voyager to be thrown back in time, but the Voyager reemerged into the year 1996. After Janeway learned that Starling intended to use the timeship to travel into the future to steal technology, she ordered the Voyager to destroy the timeship. This action prevented the 29th century temporal explosion, and created an alternate future in which Braxton was not trapped in the 20th century. This Braxton escorted Voyager back to the Delta Quadrant in 2373.
The episode also suggests that our present-day microcomputer revolution had its origins in some future technology that was exploited by an unscrupulous 20th-century entrepeneur.
Here are two elements of the future that are of particular interest: the 29th century Starfleet insignia, and the 29th century Starfleet uniforms.
(c. 28??)