What is that?
That doesn't look like Starfleet issue.
That's because I'm not a member of Starfleet.
Not that I wouldn't be honoured to be one, sir, especially after spending time--
Who are you?
How do you know what happened on the Helix?
Did Silik tell you who he was working for?
I'm the one asking questions, crewman.
Did he mention the Temporal Cold War?
What do you know about that?
A great deal more than you do, sir.
We added the Temporal Cold War aspect of the show
to satisfy the studio's desire for something "futuristic."
Well, something set in the 22nd century
seems pretty futuristic to me.
So that always seemed, like, a little odd.
But I'm glad we did.
The Temporal Cold War was a nifty idea
that probably would have worked better as its own show, I think.
The Suliban have been staging attacks within The Klingon Empire.
Making it appear that one faction is attacking another.
Klaang was bringing proof of this to his High Council.
Without that proof, the empire could be thrown into chaos.
Why would the Suliban want that?
The Cabal doesn't make decisions on its own.
They're simply soldiers fighting a Temporal Cold War.
Temporal?
You've lost me.
They're taking orders from the distant future.
The idea of...
That in the distant future, 30th century, 31st century,
that time travel became possible
but there were very, very arduous rules
about who could do it and what they could do.
But there were people who were breaking the rules.
And there were people who were messing around.
And there were other groups who were kind of watching over.
And if you combine that with a variety of alternate time lines,
you can have a ball.
Because you can deal with changing things that can be--
Historical changes that can immediately be undone
by resetting things. And it gives us a lot to play with.
We've had a lot of fun with it.
Why am I here?
I thought you were supposed to protect the timeline, not screw with it.
It's already been screwed with, captain.
That explosion at the Paraagan colony wasn't supposed to happen.
Of course it wasn't. It was an accident.
That's not what I mean. History never recorded the disaster.
Someone violated the Temporal Accord.
Someone who doesn't want your mission to succeed.
It's very difficult to do a time line for Star Trek,
because, first of all, it's--
You have the advantage that, whether by accident or design,
the Star Trek universe is actually remarkably internally consistent.
Which is quite a surprise when you consider how many writers
and how many stories and how many adventures have been over the years.
Literally hundreds of stories.
And some of it is good planning on the part of our producers
and some of it is simply luck.