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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations

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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations	comment	Part of the Star Trek Novelverse. A Day in the Limelight for the titular Department of Temporal Investigations, which monitors the integrity of the timeline and protects the history of the Star Trek universe from attempted Cosmic Retcons.The series was spun off from the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribbleations", the DTI's first (and, for the next 26 years, only) on-screen appearance. The two characters introduced there, Lucsly and Dulmur, start as the main protagonists, but soon become only one part of an Ensemble Cast.The series includes: Watching the Clock, which sets up the initial backstory and later splits into two parallel storylines. One has the DTI team up with their uptime allies to fight an emerging front of the Temporal Cold War (from Star Trek: Enterprise); the other concerns the Axis of Time, a powerful temporal conduit, and those who seek to control it for good or ill. Forgotten History, which is set mostly in Kirk's era and tells the story of how the organization was founded. "The Collectors", an e-book novella about a temporal artifact that pulls three of the heroes into a hostile, adulterated future from which they must escape. "Time Lock", an e-book novella about a mercenary raid on the Eridian Vault led by an alien woman with a mysterious agenda. "Shield of the Gods", an e-book novella that continues from Time Lock's Sequel Hook, as the antagonist's motives become clear and the DTI must chase her down before she can change the past. Star Trek: Coda: The Grand Finale for the Novel Verse. Given the nature of the storyline (i.e. the Temporal Apocalypse), the DTI naturally crosses over with the Trilogy.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1439161f	type	Heroic BSoD
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1439161f	comment	Heroic BSoD: Late in the plot, Spock deduces that Admiral Delgado and Director Grey, longtime ideological enemies, have been secretly cooperating on a highly-illegal time travel experiment that's Gone Horribly Wrong, and they admit to it. Lucsly, listening via Timey-Wimey Ball, freaks out, as he built much of his career following the legendarily spotless example of Grey, who apparently would never have done anything like this. Thankfully, he snaps out of it eventually.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_15b2cab3	type	Tempting Fate
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_15b2cab3	comment	Tempting Fate: Dulmur curses the cruel irony that the trouble on Eris started only seconds after he said farewell to Lucsly by wishing him an uneventful day.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: Alternate T'Pring was one, trying desperately to earn the affection of her hard-to-please father after her mother was "rehabilitated". Her comments suggest it didn't work.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_17b72e30	type	Continuity Porn
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_17b72e30	comment	Continuity Porn: Pretty much every time-travel related episode from throughout Star Trek's history gets brought up or involved in some way or another. The ones that don't get brought up next book.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_18262b13	type	Break the Badass
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_18262b13	comment	Break the Badass: We get to see Kirk immediately after "The City on the Edge of Forever". The death of Edith Keeler has burnt out any and all desire to study time travel in him.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_191a3673	type	Graceful Loser
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_191a3673	comment	Graceful Loser: Once his final efforts are found out, Delgado quietly accepts his cashiering and goes into quiet retirement.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1d3c92da	type	Failsafe Failure
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1d3c92da	comment	Failsafe Failure: Discussed. The forcefield belts of the "Motion Picture"-era uniforms were quickly phased out because they were pretty terrible at their job of keeping people alive.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1d47dc06	type	Alternative Calendar
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1d47dc06	comment	Alternative Calendar: As well as multiple real-life calendars, including Christian, Islamic, Hindu and Mayan examples, the chapters offer dating systems from many Star Trek cultures, including Vulcan, Andorian, Cardassian, Klingon, Deltan, Tandaran and Risian. Most of these have been plotted out in full by the author, according to his annotations.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Lucsly and Dulmur, despite their opposing personalities.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1dfd19f9	type	Papa Wolf
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1dfd19f9	comment	Papa Wolf: Scotty's still bent on protecting his bairns (i.e., the Enterprise engines). He's heartbroken at seeing the ship refitted and refurbished into a museum, likening it to stuffing and mounting her.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1f799027	type	Obstructive Bureaucrat
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_1f799027	comment	Obstructive Bureaucrat: Admiral Delgado places one aboard the Enterprise, knowing that Kirk will earn her ire through his disregard for the letter of the law.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: Zig-zagged a bit with the alternate future that the heroes end up in. On the one hand, their Federation is just as advanced, diverse, and thriving as Noi's Federation, but only because they have become aggressive warhawks who relentlessly pursue and subjugate their enemies across time. This is not entirely their fault, since it is impossible to adopt a defensive strategy when anyone can attack at any time and place, but it's a far bleaker existence than the prime universe.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: It's made clear early on that the star slingshot method of time travel only works with the Enterprise's unique chroniton-emitting engines, due to an unreplicatable accident in The Naked Time. However, Kirk was later able to do it with a run-of-the-mill Klingon ship in The Voyage Home. DTI agents have long been frustrated trying to figure out how Kirk pulled that off, and it's one of the main reasons why they dislike him. In the climax, Lucsly and Kirk are trying to solve a Time Crash, but while the former's Technobabble is insufficient to directly solve the crisis, Kirk relays enough of it to Spock and Scotty that they are able to figure out how make their current engines emit chronitons, which helps fix both the current problem and the whale probe crisis much later. Lucsly, for his part, is unhappy when he figures this out, but begrudgingly goes along with it.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2493b31d	type	Fire-Forged Friends
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2493b31d	comment	Fire-Forged Friends: Noi's relationship with Lucsly and Dulmur was always a bit strained, since their interactions were limited to Noi showing up unannounced and throwing her authority around. Not to mention their different philosophies on protecting time (Noi describes the DTI's attitude as "puritanical"). Their mutual struggle in this story changes the dynamic of their relationship substantially. Lucsly and Dulmur see that Noi's agency still respects the Federation's core ideals, while Noi gains a better appreciation for the DTI's steadfast commitment to protecting their shared timeline, despite how disadvantaged they are technologically.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: When seeing the Enterprise being refit, Scotty mentions a fellow called Probert who's got some good ideas about ship-design. Probert was the name of one of the conceptual artists involved with TNG. Part of the plot has the Enterprise run into an alternate universe, and one of them convincing a Vulcan native to that universe to institute reforms for the betterment of everyone. Things go a hell of a lot better for the Compact universe than they do with the Mirror Universe, though.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: "The Omega Glory" is done over with a fine-toothed comb, as the illogic of much of the last act's twist is pointed out (like how the supposedly ancient flag looks very new).
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Sulu demonstrates why the Vulcans have largely discarded their Enterprise-era ringships; those things may move fast, but they're awful at steering.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2ec219ee	type	Butterfly of Doom
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2ec219ee	comment	Butterfly of Doom: Downplayed. Changing history will not necessarily make for a worse future, but it is still forbidden by most polities because the volatility of time in general makes for many and varied consequences that are extremely difficult to predict, to say nothing of the ethical considerations involved in changing the fates of others. It's also mentioned that spacetime itself can become "damaged", after a fashion, from the additional entropy imposed by abuse of time travel.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2ffb4a4d	type	The Nondescript
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_2ffb4a4d	comment	The Nondescript: Many temporal agencies favor employees who lack defining features, as it makes them less noticeable should they find themselves in a time where their presence risks altering future events. Jena Noi, notably, is disadvantaged in this regard, being quite exotic in appearance by the standards of most humanoids from being a Heinz Hybrid.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_30d2ae29	comment	The Tandarans have long been at the forefront of temporal physics, which has made them a frequent target in the Temporal Cold War, since they provide much of the R&D that the Federation's future agencies use in the war. What their uptime enemies don't realize is that the very attacks they launched against Tandar's past to preemptively sabotage their work are what impelled them to invest in temporal research to begin with (which also makes it a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy). It later turns out that the Sponsor did know that and that's why he did it — he's part-Tandaran and is using their technology.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3126c34a	type	Insufferable Genius
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3126c34a	comment	Insufferable Genius: Vard.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_317629db	type	Embarrassing Nickname
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_317629db	comment	Embarrassing Nickname: Ranjea knows Riroa used to call Daiyar Shaiyu, though he doesn't know what it means since it's from her language, not his. Supposedly, it was an endearing In-Joke between the two of them once upon a time, but Daiyar is too embarrassed to explain further. It also served as an unexpected Trust Password, since it proved Ranjea's connection with Riroa.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_319e101e	type	Amplifier Artifact
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_319e101e	comment	Amplifier Artifact: The Selakar used crystals that amplified their psionic abilities, for use as power sources, weapons, etc. Their most powerful allows them to permanently enslave other minds to their service, augmenting their natural ability to influence people.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_32da91b8	type	Out of Focus
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_32da91b8	comment	Out of Focus: Most of the story is about the Original Series crew, and their dealings with Delgado. Dulmur and Lucsly still play an important role, but have nowhere near the amount of screentime they did in the previous book.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_33f1c576	type	Not Helping Your Case
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_33f1c576	comment	Not Helping Your Case: Partway through the Enterprise's five year mission, the Federation gets a new president, and one of his cabinet members calls Delgado in for a chewing out. His use of the first names of the former cabinet members and heads of Starfleet don't exactly disprove her calling them a "boy's club".
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_37690091	type	Stable Time Loop
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_37690091	comment	Stable Time Loop: Kirk, Spock and Scotty only know how to slingshot with warp engines other than Enterprise's because Lucsly shows Kirk how. Luscly is not happy.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_38d02d44	type	Batman Gambit
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_38d02d44	comment	Batman Gambit: It's revealed that the Tandarans, under attack by the Suliban Cabal, knew that a future agency was sponsoring the enemy. They believed the Cabal was attempting to prevent Tandar Prime's ascension as a leading authority in temporal science, when in fact it was the knowledge that they were under attack from the future that led Tandar to pursue temporal research so aggressively. The Tandarans kept their knowledge secret so that the enemy would continue inadvertently strengthening them by attacking them. However, it's then revealed that the Cabal's Sponsor, AKA Future Guy, knew what they were doing all along, and was encouraging it. Tandaran pursuit of temporal research led to his own creation, so he was manipulating them into ensuring that he would exist.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_392372f9	type	Actor Allusion
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_392372f9	comment	Actor Allusion: Dulmer notes that Dr. Paul Manheim resembles Sigmund Freud. Rod Loomis played both Manheim in "We'll Always Have Paris" and Freud in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_39798793	type	Ludicrous Precision
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_39798793	comment	Ludicrous Precision: Lucsly wishes Dulmur a happy birthday at the end of one of his messages from within the time locked vault, much to Dulmur's amusement. This means that Lucsly, with his usual clockwork precision, had been keeping track of the time differential despite the fact that, by that point, days outside the vault were seconds inside.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3ae63c5d	type	I Just Like Saying the Word
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3ae63c5d	comment	I Just Like Saying the Word: The black market station where the DTI first looks for Daiyar has an... unusual name.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3b2ee7b6	type	Instant Turn-Off
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3b2ee7b6	comment	Instant Turn-Off: Although Ranjea knows to keep his guard up around Lirahn, he still seeks to empathize with her and understand her motivations (and indeed, her desires, though selfish, come from a place of fear and pain). But when she makes a casually dismissive comment about Garcia's emotional immaturity, Ranjea immediately loses whatever genuine interest he had in Lirahn.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3b5fcbb7	type	Artifact of Doom
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: The DTI has an entire vault way out on the edge of the Sol system where they secretly squirrel away various temporal knick-knacks to prevent them from being accidentally or maliciously activated, in keeping with their strict policy of non-intervention. Not all of them are terribly dangerous, but at least some of them are.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3f064a0d	type	Humans Are Morons
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3f064a0d	comment	Humans Are Morons: Downplayed. No one thinks humans are stupid, but there is a stereotype that they can't easily grasp temporal mechanics. Their brains just aren't wired that way. It's why, despite the DTI being headquartered on Earth, humans make up at most a plurality of its staff. But as Lucsly, Dulmur, and Garcia have demonstrated many times over, humans can still have a knack for it.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3f70415	type	Because Destiny Says So
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_3f70415	comment	Because Destiny Says So: Part of Delgado's motivation is a belief that some universal force is shaping his actions.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_40c57041	type	Manipulative Bastard
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_40c57041	comment	Manipulative Bastard: Admiral Delgado is very good at being persuasive, knowing just how to get on people's good side or find a way to talk them around to his way of thinking. His motives are relatively good, but his methods aren't.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_45157041	type	Even Mooks Have Loved Ones
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_45157041	comment	Even Mooks Have Loved Ones: A major point of friction between Daiyar and her mercs is that they have friends and families they want to see again, while Daiyar seems unconcerned by the rapidly increasing time lock dilation. Though she tries to reassure them, they eventually realize that she has her own agenda, which does not make their survival a priority.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_45aaa618	type	Extinct Animal Park
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_45aaa618	comment	Extinct Animal Park: The Collectors desire to create one of these for themselves. The temporal devices they send back for this purpose are timed to grab a sample of a given species just prior to their extinction (to minimize any disruption to the timeline their absence may cause) and bring them forward in time. The misadventure caused by Starfleet's premature discovery of one such device prompts a re-evaluation of their plan.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4604fd4d	type	Worthy Opponent
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Daiyar clearly enjoys matching wits with her DTI opponents and is impressed by some of their tricks.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4733b5a5	type	Saying Too Much
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4733b5a5	comment	Saying Too Much: Lucsly, forced into assisting Kirk, accidentally lets slip he's not a native to Kirk's time.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_474a2a5e	type	Cultural Posturing
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_474a2a5e	comment	Cultural Posturing: A little of this from T'Viss (though she probably sees it as quashing Kirk's own "posturing"). She acknowledges that Jonathan Archer provided some assistance to T'Pau in rediscovering Surak's original writings and reforming Vulcan society. Some.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4a3e547f	type	Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4a3e547f	comment	Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Seeing a Vedala at the end of the book, Kirk thinks to himself their bipedal stance looks a little cartoonish. Which they would, given they debuted in The Animated Series.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4acee1ed	type	Fish out of Temporal Water
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4acee1ed	comment	Fish out of Temporal Water: Quite a bit, to the point that the DTI has a Temporal Displacement Division to deal with people who suddenly find themselves in the 24th century. In "The Collectors", Dulmur, Lucsly and Jena Noi get flung to a point 20 million years into the future.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: At the end, courtesy of Shiiem of the Zcham, a species from 800,000 years into the future: "We're only human, after all."
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4fafed32	type	Higher-Tech Species
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_4fafed32	comment	Higher-Tech Species: The Vedala.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_50f66629	type	Crazy-Prepared
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_50f66629	comment	Crazy-Prepared: The DTI databases are designed to be ripple-effect proof. So when or if anything is changed, like an agent being erased from history, they'll know.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_52488c54	type	Drowning My Sorrows
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_52488c54	comment	Drowning My Sorrows: Cyral Nine, after quitting the Aegis. Lucsly, for a short time.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_52a7e035	type	DoppelgÃ¤nger Gets Same Sentiment
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_52a7e035	comment	DoppelgÃ¤nger Gets Same Sentiment: When the Enterprise is essentially switched with a ship from the Onlies' universe, Spock finds his pon'farr being triggered due to his time spent with the alternate version of T'Pring.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_52db461d	type	Significant Anagram
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_52db461d	comment	Significant Anagram: See Meaningful Name, above.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_53b6ab6a	type	Jumped at the Call
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_53b6ab6a	comment	Jumped at the Call: Subverted. We meet an eager young recruit who can't wait to have "adventures" as a Temporal Agent, but is told very quickly that the whole point of the DTI is to avoid adventure. In fact, if time travel happens the mission's already a failure. The recruit drops out the next day.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_53c9fc92	type	Flashback
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_53c9fc92	comment	In the Flashback sequence, Spock is surprised that his human colleague thinks of the Onlies planet (a parallel Earth where most of humanity died) as "home". He then reflects that he doesn't know how he'd react if he encountered a timeline where Vulcan was destroyed.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_53f5119f	comment	The Dragon: Kvolan, who heads the mercenaries in Daiyar's employ.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_547196be	type	Broad Strokes
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_547196be	comment	Broad Strokes: The novel "Living Memory", published after the Coda series ended the Novelverse continuity, has Kirk offhandedly think about Admiral Delgado, suggesting that at the least the TOS portions of the novel happened in some shape or form.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_54d6f53f	type	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_54d6f53f	comment	Ripple-Effect-Proof Memory: The Department of Temporal Investigations keeps records protected by phase discriminators, shielding the data from alterations in the timeline. Although the agents themselves will have no knowledge of the previous history, they can research their own files to determine if changes have been made.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_566f1565	type	10-Minute Retirement
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_566f1565	comment	10-Minute Retirement: Lucsly, after his faith that the DTI will protect the timeline's integrity is shattered when, on advice from a future agency, he is refused permission to prosecute Janeway for her actions in "Endgame". Dulmur talks him into returning. Averted with Dulmur, however, who quits when the demands of his job threaten his marriage. It is several months before he eventually decides to return.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_5989e3b6	type	Enemy Mine
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_5989e3b6	comment	Enemy Mine: One of Daiyar's plans gone wrong forces the two sides to work together to disable the time lock. Against their better judgement, they let Daiyar throw the switch so that Lucsly won't have to make a Heroic Sacrifice. She comes through, but manages to escape afterwards, despite the DTI's best efforts.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: It's speculated that the real ones pulling the strings of the Aegis are the animal sidekicks. No-one gets any confirmation either way.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_5e50adfe	type	Split Timelines Plot
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_5e50adfe	comment	Split Timelines Plot: When the artifact takes Noi, Lucsly, and Dulmur into the future, this also causes a change in the timeline in which the temporal defense grid was never invented (the details of which have been kept secret to prevent ne'er-do-wells from doing just that). This initially confuses Noi, who has no choice but to conclude that Lucsly and/or Dulmur, both considered minor pawns in the grand scheme of things, must have some role to play in this galaxy-changing event.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_61321e1	type	Unusual Chapter Numbers
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_61321e1	comment	Unusual Chapter Numbers: Each chapter has a subtitle with an Alternative Calendar date:
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: Daiyar escapes Eris with an incomplete temporal device, her intentions still unclear. Lucsly resolves to track her down with the one lead they have: the limited number of places where she might find the technology to repair her device.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_62c365d5	type	Emotions vs. Stoicism
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_62c365d5	comment	Emotions vs. Stoicism: Actually somewhat avoided with the Deltans. As a large part of their characterization revolves around their emotional maturity, they embrace their passions fully yet also demonstrate a calm and reserved demeanour much of the time. However, their conflict with the Carreon is partly this trope, though more on the Carreon side. Deltans are a flexible Ethical Slut culture, free with their emotions and desires (albeit also strongly disciplined), while Carreon are stoic and reserved, and rather intolerant of such openness. The Carreon also have a tendency to hypocritically show great interest in the Deltans' sexual nature while loudly condemning it.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_638b7928	type	Buddy Snaps First
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_638b7928	comment	Buddy Snaps First: After coming face-to-face with The Sponsor and having to listen to his Smug Snake posturing over all the chaos he's caused, Dulmur is ready to give him a bit of an attitude adjustment. To his surprise, though, his normally stolid partner beats him to it, introducing Harnoth's face to the table for what he did to Agent Shelan.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_64fd1e63	type	Other Me Annoys Me
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_64fd1e63	comment	Other Me Annoys Me: T'Viss is scandalized to learn her alternate universe self is not a physicist, but a reclusive artist on Vulcan. The alternate T'Pring expresses a degree of contempt when she learns what her local counterpart did to Spock, after her own experience losing a mate.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_66dfe36a	type	Missing Mom
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_66dfe36a	comment	Missing Mom: Alternate T'Pring's mom was not a fan of the Vulcan Protectorate. The Vulcan Protectorate were not a fan of outspoken criticism, and sent her off for "rehabilitation". T'Pring never saw her again, but it's left her with a pretty frosty attitude to the Protectorate.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_69391768	type	Expecting Someone Taller
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_69391768	comment	Expecting Someone Taller: Dulmur thinks this about Kirk after finally coming face-to-face with him. As for Lucsly, he was expecting someone far more reckless.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6a6b23ff	type	Unfazed Everyman
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6a6b23ff	comment	Unfazed Everyman: This is a job requirement at the DTI. On a bad day, agents have to deal with all sorts of impossible situations, armed only with their wits and their primitive (compared to future centuries) technology. Many end up burning out or going crazy over the existential challenges they are faced with, which is why the DTI is chronically understaffed.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: The climax of the book finally gives the Sponsor a name and identity: Jamran Harnoth, of the 28th century.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6bd689ca	comment	Meaningful Echo: "Having is not so pleasing a thing as wanting."
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: We learn the reason why the English word for the Aegis is what it is: because they use their temporal abilities to protect developing races from destruction until they are mature enough to survive on their own. The title of the novella is a popular translation of the word.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6c275297	type	The Fettered
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6c275297	comment	The Fettered: This trope holds true for the Federation as a whole, but particularly for the DTI and its allies. The size and volatility of time has taught those who police it the importance of unity, lest they all suffer the consequences together.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6e37c196	type	Once Done, Never Forgotten
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6e37c196	comment	Once Done, Never Forgotten: Lucsly's still not letting Dulmur live down that time he told Sisko he wanted to meet Kirk.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6e9e1e32	type	GottaCatchEmAll
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_6e9e1e32	comment	Gotta Catch 'Em All: One of Lucsly and Dulmur's assignments involved tracking down 13 Ky'rha artifacts (time travel devices) scattered across the quadrant and being sold on the black market.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: The mutability of time makes this a... complicated trope. Technically, there's not supposed to be such a thing as fate, since the future is unwritten. However, one person's future is another person's past, so this isn't strictly true. As a rule, the "good" factions are supposed to shut their eyes and ears (sometimes literally) to any knowledge of their future, because while to them the future can be changed, those who live in the future have their own version of events that they are supposed to preserve. So ultimately, it's not that you can't fight fate, but that you shouldn't, or the future will be angry. Yet another reason why DTI agents have existential crises: do they really have free will when there are cops from the future who will railroad them if they wander too far from the timeline?
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_737a65f4	type	The Watson
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_737a65f4	comment	The Watson: Vlik, the representative from Ferenginar's temporal regulatory bureau, gives Lucsly an excuse to fill in some of the backstory since she and her bureau are a recent addition to the fraternity.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_73ef9ef3	type	Almighty Janitor
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_73ef9ef3	comment	Almighty Janitor: The Temporal Defense Grid project is spearheaded by Lucsly, who gathers together the rank-and-file bureaucrats from temporal agencies across the Alpha Quadrant. He gives a speech explaining why they, the nameless functionaries without whom galactic society could not exist, are the ones sufficiently Beneath Notice to undertake the monumental task of creating a defense grid in such a way that no one from the present will know it's happening, and no one from the future will know how to undo it.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_753a61d4	type	Time-Travel Tense Trouble
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_753a61d4	comment	Time-Travel Tense Trouble: The books deal heavily with the logic and philosophy behind this trope. Its concluded that the simplest solution is to look at things from the perspective of someone outside time and pretend everything is happening at once, and as such simply use present tense for everything. It helps that there is no such thing as meta-time, despite reality appearing to change from certain people's POV. So no one has to use convoluted ways of having to describe things 'before' and 'after' something changed history, which is the really confusing part of talking about time travel. Instead, they describe it as there were two timelines, one with the change and one without, and when those timelines hit the point the time traveler went back, the original got merged into the one with the change. (It couldn't merge before, because that would cause a paradox by erasing the origin of the change.) And everything 'always' happened like that. This is given a snarky Lampshade Hanging by the first book, which uses the Trope Naming speech for Timey-Wimey Ball before the opening page. It proves most apt. The usual "past, present, and future" terms are somewhat ambiguous when time travel is involved, since they could be in reference to the speaker's native time period or a different one, depending on the context. "Uptime" and "downtime" are more objective terms, favored by temporal agencies, that refer to the future and past of the current time, respectively.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7a19a69b	type	Not Quite the Right Thing
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7a19a69b	comment	Not Quite the Right Thing: Spock decides, after the many times he lost emotional control in the last five years, to go back to Vulcan and really learn to control his emotions... so he won't hurt his friends if it happens again. However, he also decides to leave with the most perfunctory goodbyes imaginable, right as Kirk's going through a highly stressful trial and could use his support.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7a77418e	type	Catching Up on History
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7a77418e	comment	Catching Up on History: The Temporal Displacement Division is tasked with helping those who end up being flung (either by accident or deliberately) into the 24th century get acclimated to their new home. Two of the more notable cases they handle are Lts. M'Ress and Arex, who both found their way there via very different means of time travel.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7ae75c78	type	Evil Me Scares Me
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7ae75c78	comment	Evil Me Scares Me: Jena Noi encounters an alternate version of herself. They do not get along well at all, since the alternate Noi's timeline is much more militaristic and cynical.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7b8f5f07	type	Charm Person
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7b8f5f07	comment	Charm Person: Lirahn and other Selakar have this ability.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7cdfe326	type	Cosmic Retcon
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7cdfe326	comment	Cosmic Retcon: A large part of the DTI's purpose is to protect the timeline from these, and much of the Temporal Cold War revolves around trying to cause them without actively being seen to violate the Temporal Accords. In Watching the Clock, a particularly disturbing Cosmic Retcon occurs, when Agent Shelan is maliciously deleted from history by the primary villain.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7d1ee5b2	type	Trojan Horse
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7d1ee5b2	comment	Trojan Horse: This is how the raiders get inside the vault. They hide themselves in a device that appears to open a temporal portal, when it is actually an interdimensional portal. The Eridian Vault is designed to protect against the former, not the latter.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7eb73553	type	Bullying a Dragon
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7eb73553	comment	Bullying a Dragon: Apparently there are people who've tried antagonising the Vedala. Exactly what happened next isn't specified, only that the results are legendary.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7f3e75b6	type	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_7f3e75b6	comment	Look on My Works, Ye Mighty, and Despair: Most of the races represented in the Axis of Time have to deal with this. In the time periods they consider to be "the present", they're often thriving cultures, indeed the leading races of their interstellar communities. But thanks to the Axis they know that a few thousand years later and they'll have been forgotten, being at best archaeological curiosities to the next group of spacefaring cultures and at worst lost to history.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_808cbaeb	type	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_808cbaeb	comment	Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: Agent George Faunt suffers a breakdown, attacks his colleagues, takes a researcher hostage and turns the DTI branch office into a seige zone. He also makes a lame time-related pun. Dulmur notes this last in a manner suggesting it's almost as serious as the other offenses.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_80b57bec	type	Super-Soldier
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_80b57bec	comment	Super-Soldier: One of the Eridian Vault's guests is a suspended Mro soldier, one of an ancient race of deadly crustacean-like conquerors who had, among other things, biologically integrated energy weapons and a psionic gaze that would render insane any humanoid unfortunate enough to look one in the eye. When Garcia hears that the Mro's stasis field is about to fail, it's almost enough to cause a code brown.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: A willingly vestigial one in the case of the Deltans. They turned inwards centuries ago and now control only a few star systems, considering space travel and colonization a â€œnoble savageâ€� sort of concept. They still get annoyed when the Carreon try to settle their old holdings, though.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_829b958e	type	Embarrassing First Name
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_829b958e	comment	Embarrassing First Name: Marion Dulmur.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Dulmur develops a relationship with the liaison he works with at the new DTI branch office on Denobula, Cymmen, who is emotionally supportive through the long months of waiting while events slowly unfold in the Eridian Vault. Though hesitant at first, since Denobulans are polyamorous, Dulmur nevertheless eventually becomes Cymmen's third husband. This turns out to be advantageous for him, as his shared marital responsibilities mean the demands of his job (which are what doomed his first marriage) are much less of a strain.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_867f9f5c	type	Alien Non-Interference Clause
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_867f9f5c	comment	Alien Non-Interference Clause: Kirk insists he and his crew cannot interfere in the alternate universe's problems. Spock, not so much. But then, he's not interfering. He just happens to be showing T'Pring the kir'shara, and if he happens to let her know where the original is...
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Lucsly faces this regarding Meijan Grey. Also inverted, as Lucsly gradually realizes that Kirk is not the reckless character he was expecting.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_88933ad4	type	Parental Favoritism
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_88933ad4	comment	Parental Favoritism: Paul Manheim insists that his brother was the favorite, explaining his subconscious resentment of said brother.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_88f1db15	type	Break the Believer
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_88f1db15	comment	Break the Believer: Lucsly has an almost religious conviction that there is one, and only one, "true" timeline in the universe. This is how he keeps himself grounded when faced with the oftentimes overwhelming scope of temporal multidimensionality, which is why it is such a blow when he learns that this may not be the case. When their (sometimes) friends from the future intervene in the prosecution of Janeway for her myriad temporal violations in the Delta Quadrant, and it's revealed that the DTI's version of history is "wrong" compared to theirs, Lucsly endures a crisis of faith which, like so many others from the department, he needs his partner to shake him out of.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_892c6fdc	type	Space Elves
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_892c6fdc	comment	Space Elves: The Deltans are fleshed out in Watching the Clock, and have aspects of this trope. The Vedala in Forgotten History fit the bill. They're generally benevolent, older than other spacefaring races, very advanced and isolationist, and seem ever-so-slightly smug about their status in relation to younger "child" races. Behind their reasonable manner is the clear belief that Vedala are better than you.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: Lirahn uses her powers of coercion to force Ranjea and Garcia into a sexual frenzy. Though they both are able to cope, it kills Garcia's desire for her partner. This is tragic in one way, since it means they can't have a physical relationship,note Ranjea previously turned Garcia down because Deltan sex is dangerous to most other races, but the event made him realize she was more resilient than average. but it also paves the way for them to form a comfortably platonic bond, free from Unresolved Sexual Tension.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_8d23f3a7	type	Timey-Wimey Ball
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_8d23f3a7	comment	Timey-Wimey Ball: The Axis is quite literally fuelled by one. Since it exists simultaneously in every point of its own history, the energy of its destruction via supernova is used to empower it from it's creation.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_92286f7f	type	Precursors
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_92286f7f	comment	Precursors: Among others, the Arret Empire. Two species in partnership - one standard Humanoid, the other Vulcanoid - spread themselves across the stars and founded countless colonies. Many of the Federation's member races, including Deltans and Vulcans, are strongly implied to be descendants of these colonies.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_92cca75b	type	Ret-Gone
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_92cca75b	comment	Ret-Gone: Agent Shelan is erased from history by The Sponsor. But what really makes it a direct insult is that they went the extra mile to make sure nothing else in the timeline changed as a result. Everything Shelan did as an agent is carefully preserved, either done by someone else or through engineered coincidence, making it clear that it served no other purpose than as a big "fuck you" to the DTI.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_92db333b	type	Ret-Gone
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_92db333b	comment	"Future Guy" and his utterly inexplicable deeds in Enterprise are given an actual explanation: Trying to start a Klingon civil war was meant to Retgone Korath long before he could be born. The same with attacking the Tandarans (only replace "Korath" with "Vard").
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_93ed8515	type	Set Right What Once Went Wrong
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_93ed8515	comment	Set Right What Once Went Wrong: Averted. The crew of the Verity, shot forward in time to find their planet in ruins following the Borg Invasion, want to try and return to their original time to give warning. They're prevented from doing so, and it's explained why their decision was the wrong one, no matter how subjectively understandable the desire. Agent Faunt was tempted to do the same thing while exploring a time portal on a world devastated by the Borg. When he found out the portal also led to an alternate dimension and wouldn't fix things, he suffered the psychotic break that kicks off Watching The Clock. Lucsly thinks this is what should be done after Janeway's actions in "Endgame", only to be overruled by the uptime police, who judge Janeway's actions to be correct.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9438e550	type	The Big Damn Kiss
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9438e550	comment	The Big Damn Kiss: Between Noi and Lucsly, of all people.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9591377d	type	Heel Realization
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9591377d	comment	Heel Realization: Jena Noi from the alternate future realizes, after peering into the thoughts of her counterpart, just how much of a Crapsack World she's living in by comparison, making her much more self-conscious about the things she's done. It's enough to convince her to help restore the original timeline, even knowing she will be erased in the process.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_966b4df0	type	Time Police
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_966b4df0	comment	Time Police: The DTI is one, while there's also the Temporal Integrity Commission and the Federation Temporal Agency further uptime. Most major Alpha Quadrant races have agencies of their own. They mostly get along with each other, even when their governments don't see eye to eye, since they are all uniquely aware of how destructive it could be if they don't cooperate.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_97d97c28	type	Revenge Before Reason
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_97d97c28	comment	Revenge Before Reason: The Sponsor has a little of this:
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_98c95895	type	Time Crash
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_98c95895	comment	Time Crash: A time travel experiment Goes Horribly Wrong creating a "confluence" where the past and present of two separate timelines overlap, with the potential that people could stumble between universes and / or times and accidentally rewrite each others' histories. Things get worse when antagonistic forces from the other universe's 24th century will, if the anomaly remains open, go back in time and try to conquer the Federation in the 23rd century.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9a3b7208	type	The Needs of the Many
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9a3b7208	comment	The Needs of the Many: Captain Janeway gets away with her multiple violations of the timeline because if she hadn't, the events of Star Trek: Destiny wouldn't have occurred, and the Borg would've conquered the entire galaxy by the 27th century.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: The (possible) reveal that Lucsly is a former Aegis operative is hinted at when, during a rare moment of passion during a heated argument, he grabs Dulmur's arm with "implacable" strength. The Aegis routinely give their agents genetic enhancements.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9d3b4703	type	This Is Reality
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9d3b4703	comment	This Is Reality: Kvolan attempts to capture a fleeing Felbog by zapping him with a temporal accelerator. He expected it to slow Felbog by making him old and weak, based on what he saw in a holonovel once, but Daiyar reprimands him for believing that fictitious nonsense. Anyone trapped in an accelerator field would die of dehydration long before any physiological changes could take place.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9d6427ec	type	Time Travel
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9d6427ec	comment	Time Travel: The books feature this, of course, but it's important to note that the DTI wants to avoid it wherever possible. The department exists to protect against time travel and clean up the mess that results, not travel in time themselves.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9dab0a6e	type	Continuity Nod
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_9dab0a6e	comment	Continuity Nod: Any episode from TOS and TAS involving time-travel gets a nod or mention somewhere, and a few others beside. During the events of "Assignment: Earth", the Enterprise has a new historian, to replace Marla McGivers, after her "departure" at the end of "Space Seed". Admiral Delgado at one point mentions the Federation having sent a fact finding mission to Argelius, where they found out some interesting facts about the local women. And, to continue the Running Gag, we don't learn what it is they found. A younger T'Viss is dubious of the Guardian of Forever, as was established in "Watching the Clock". Kirk already has a public reputation for being the first Starfleet captain to be court martialled (from "Court Martial"). In defending himself, he brings up all the times he's messed with the Prime Directive, like saving stagnant societies from computers, or outside interference. While thinking of Kirk's promotion, Scotty thinks on Captain Pike, and his twelve year service on Enterprise. After realizing where they are, the Enterprise crew and T'Viss discuss the events of the Forge trilogy from Enterprise. In the same discussing, Kirk's inner monologue notes he's been studying up on Vulcan history after not recognising Surak during "The Savage Curtain". Without Archer's presence, the events that occurred in "Cease Fire" went badly for both sides. Soval ended up getting killed.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a1b141f4	type	My God, What Have I Done?
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a1b141f4	comment	My God, What Have I Done?: Meijan Grey's reaction to causing the events of "Yesteryear", and by extension nearly erasing Spock from history.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a1b76006	type	Nerves of Steel
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a1b76006	comment	Nerves of Steel: An absolute necessity in the Department of Temporal Investigations, if you're to handle the existential uncertainties of it all. It's noted that humans are a minority in the department - other Federation species more renowned for mental discipline, like Vulcans, Zakdorn, Deltans, Benzites and Rhaandarites, are much more common.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a4905771	type	Double-Meaning Title
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a4905771	comment	Double-Meaning Title: Watching the Clock refers both to the DTI's role in protecting and monitoring the timeline, and to the mundane nature of its agents, who are most certainly not Starfleet-style adventurers. The DTI know that if they're having an adventure, they've already screwed up, and it's going to pay hell with the paperwork. No, they're 9-to-5 government employees, and like to keep things as unchaotic and, ideally, dull as possible. Forgotten History looks at Lucsly and Dulmur researching the history of the Department to explain the appearance of Timeship Twowhen history has no record of such a ship; the title both refers to them researching the fine details of the Department's history and learning the exact chain of events that led to the existence of Timeship Two. And the 'Department of Temporal Investigation' is itself a double meaning in-story. During the creation of the department, it's set up to both investigate temporal incursions and lawbreaking, and to investigate (research) time itself. The research aspect gets massively curtailed due to the problems that happened in Forgotten History, and now is almost entirely restricted to purely theoretical work along with observation of known temporal anomalies.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Dulmur and Lucsly were one-off characters as part of a Framing Device for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". The DTI as a whole fits this trope as well, as it was never mentioned again on television after that episode.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a86069f	type	Alternate History
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a86069f	comment	Alternate History: One is explored to some degree, almost in the tradition of the Star Trek: Myriad Universes series.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Apparently, the Temporal Disruptor weapon causes its victims to "feel like it takes an age to die". This is largely why even those factions fighting against the Temporal Accords rarely use them. The Call-Back to Cause and Effect also explains that the crew of the Bozeman experienced a similar sensation when they were caught in the 90-year time loop that also trapped the Enterprise (which they couldn't escape from on their own, since 23rd Century Technobabble wasn't up to the challenge).
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a8a4b41e	type	Not So Stoic
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_a8a4b41e	comment	Not So Stoic: Simok is a very atypical Vulcan. He has a pretty goad bead on his emotions, which means he's actually comfortable being self-deprecating about himself.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ab2df806	type	Red Baron
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ab2df806	comment	Red Baron: DTI agents of the 24th century refer to Kirk as "the Time Pirate".
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ab5eea65	type	Dramatic Irony
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ab5eea65	comment	Dramatic Irony: Kirk approves of Decker, even considering him his protÃ©gÃ©, and selected the man to take over Enterprise for him. He'll change his tune in time. For added irony, he asks Scotty if the man has a problem with Decker.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Spock's reaction on seeing the Muroc's science officer, one sub-commander T'Pring.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ad459d78	type	Write Back to the Future
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ad459d78	comment	Write Back to the Future: Time travel may be forbidden by the DTI, but they know how to get the attention of the Time Police from the future when they need to: put something in the official record that they will notice and have to respond to.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_add931af	type	I Choose to Stay
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_add931af	comment	I Choose to Stay: After convincing Daiyar to abandon her plan and redeem herself, Ranjea, who had been longing for a deeper personal connection with someone, chooses to stay in the past with her and help her heal. He leaves a future-dated message for Garcia to explain why he did it and to say goodbye.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_af616e40	type	Accidental Misnaming
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_af616e40	comment	Accidental Misnaming: Professor Vard refers to Dulmur as Agent Duller, Agent Dummer, and Agent Dombler, among others. It turns out to be a recurring problem with him.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_afc52a86	type	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_afc52a86	comment	Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot: Borg Tyrannosaurus.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_b17f6a27	type	I Did What I Had to Do
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_b17f6a27	comment	I Did What I Had to Do: One of the reasons Lucsly dislikes Janeway so much is her utterly unapologetic attitude towards messing with time (besides messing with time in the first place).
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: A subtle one; Kirk being Kicked Upstairs at the end of his five-year mission, with Enterprise given a major refit, was established in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and explored further in the novel Ex Machina. In Forgotten History, this is now shown to happen in part due to influence from Admiral Delgado, to further his well-meaning, if overzealous, ambitions for time travel experiments. Specifically, with the Enterprise undergoing a major refit, its old engines are his for the taking, along with their unique properties allowing artificial time travel. Less subtly, the idea from the original series that "sometimes alien planets have cultures exactly like Earth because that's just a thing that happens" gets retconned away; the identical-to-Earth planet from "Miri" is actually an Earth that fell into our universe from a parallel reality, and the planet from "The Omega Glory" that had the US flag and constitution turned out to be cultural contamination. The "unique properties" of those engines themselves. In the series, it was never suggested the slingshot maneuver wasn't something any starship could do, it was just the Enterprise that discovered it, and therefore had the most experience with it.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_b3bdf232	type	Alien Geometries
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_b3bdf232	comment	Alien Geometries: Due to the properties of the finite pocket dimension which forms the Axis of Time, its Council Hub station touches its own opposite end, forming a Moebius Structure. Its public transport can be ridden in a straight line that ends up back where it started.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_b475abfb	type	Gut Feeling
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_b475abfb	comment	Gut Feeling: Shortly into his partnership with Lucsly, Dulmur has one of these regarding a connection between the Manheim effect of the previous year and the vortex phenomenon they're currently investigating. Lucsly advises against "gut feelings", saying that everything the DTI deals with is counter-intuitive anyway. Nonetheless, Lucsly doesn't entirely dismiss Dulmur's insight, but insists on waiting until he has supporting evidence.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ba2f9dfe	type	The Paranoiac
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ba2f9dfe	comment	The Paranoiac: The Vulcans of the alternate timeline are considerably more Romulan - paranoid and unreasonably hostile, though still logical underneath.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_bb18a227	comment	It's All About Me: Delgado is obsessive about getting his way. Neatly shown when the Enterprise crew breaks up, and Spock goes back to Vulcan. Delgado wonders if the man did it solely to hide his knowledge of time travel from him.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_bbfaa837	type	Knight Templar
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_bbfaa837	comment	Knight Templar: The alternate Federation's Temporal Intervention Agency. Though they ostensibly uphold the same principles of peace and cooperation as the prime Federation, it's hinted that over time, their need for more offensive strategies have caused them to take things a bit too far.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_bcb452a9	type	Weirdness Magnet
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_bcb452a9	comment	Weirdness Magnet: Establishes that temporal anomalies turn you into one of these, explaining a great deal about Star Trek as a whole. Once you're exposed to one, probability is altered such that it becomes inevitable that you end up exposed to a whole lot more.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c2676b00	type	Jurisdiction Friction
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c2676b00	comment	The DTI and their 29th-century, 31st-century, etc. equivalents. The DTI dislike the 29th century for their incredibly reckless approach to time-travel (as seen in "Relativity"), arresting people for crimes they haven't committed yet, and just being smug berks. And they dislike the 31st century for their condescending attitude and for messing around in their backyard without consulting them (which the DTI knows is for a good reason, but that doesn't mean they have to like it).
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c309f9d1	type	Science Marches On
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c309f9d1	comment	Science Marches On: In-Universe, fear of this is part of the reason time-fiction author Vaacith sh'Lesinas is so conservative about actual time travel; her work could look very dated if actual methods and limitations of time travel were established and widely known.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c3648b87	type	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c3648b87	comment	Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: Despite its claim to unity, the Typhon Pact is still riddled with rivalries and the various member states' government agencies have yet to form a shared bureau for dealing with temporal integrity. The DTI and their 29th-century, 31st-century, etc. equivalents. The DTI dislike the 29th century for their incredibly reckless approach to time-travel (as seen in "Relativity"), arresting people for crimes they haven't committed yet, and just being smug berks. And they dislike the 31st century for their condescending attitude and for messing around in their backyard without consulting them (which the DTI knows is for a good reason, but that doesn't mean they have to like it). Likewise, the DTI with regular Starfleet crews. The DTI regard Starfleet as reckless idiots who'd fly headfirst into the nearest temporal anomaly in the name of science, while Starfleet regard them as humourless bureaucratic stiffs.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Toward the end, there seems to be a chance to restore Shelan. Nope. The Sponsor makes it clear he put in an awful lot of time and effort to make sure that couldn't happen.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c4bb17a1	type	Pet-Peeve Trope
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c4bb17a1	comment	Pet-Peeve Trope: Time police almost universally revile time puns.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c5584f85	type	Artifact Domination
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c5584f85	comment	Artifact Domination: Daiyar's fancy Aegis-designed stylus has the power to enthrall other humanoids, which she uses to kidnap Ranjea when confronted by him. She allows him to keep most of his free will, but he remains unable to impede her or refuse her demands. Despite his mental discipline, his memories of Riroa and her past relationship with Daiyar prevent him from resisting.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c5cc0783	type	Internal Retcon
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c5cc0783	comment	Internal Retcon: Why did no-one know about time travel when Archer encountered it a lot? Some time after the Federation was founded, Archer was convinced to hide all the evidence, and Starfleet has been working very hard to supress any knowledge since.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c5f0119c	type	Insane Troll Logic
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c5f0119c	comment	Insane Troll Logic: Lucsly, seeing Spock wrangle a confession out of Grey, suffers dissonance so bad he declares Spock must be covering for Kirk's actions, somehow. Dulmer calls him on this.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c696f3ba	type	Heroic Willpower
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c696f3ba	comment	Heroic Willpower: An important part of the Deltans' characterization. And an important part of Garcia's, which proves to be stronger than Ranjea's and ultimately saves the Axis from Lirahn.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: Antonio Delgado is based on the two most influential actors who played the Master in the original run of Doctor Who, Roger Delgado and Anthony Ainley. So it's probably not a coincidence that early on his stated goal is to "master" time-travel. On downtime, Kirk reads a book on Vulcan history written by a "Duane". Diane Duane wrote many Star Trek books on Vulcan and Vulcans.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c80c751d	type	Guy on Guy Is Hot
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c80c751d	comment	Guy on Guy Is Hot: When Ranjea mentions the possibility of having some intimate relations with another male Deltan who happens to be around, Garcia can't help but be tempted to invite herself as a spectator. Chances are they would have been up for it, but by this point her relationship with Ranjea was on its way to becoming Like Brother and Sister, so she puts it aside.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c8ba12ee	type	Interplay of Sex and Violence
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c8ba12ee	comment	Interplay of Sex and Violence: The Deltan armed forces draw from those Deltans who have a...more combative...element to their sexuality. This being Deltans, it's usually well-controlled and healthy, but, put simply, the Deltan armed forces equate controlled force with sexuality. As a Deltan character says, if their rivals the Carreon insist on wanting conflict, who are the Deltans to deny it, particularly if some of their own can find a healthy outlet for their desires in the process?
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c8c968c3	type	The Alliance
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c8c968c3	comment	The Alliance: The Colloquium of Progress, a multi-species civilization represented in the Axis of Time. Plus, of course, the United Federation of Planets, and its new rival, the Typhon Pact.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c972d624	type	Slut-Shaming
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_c972d624	comment	Slut-Shaming: In the future, Kirk has a reputation for sleeping with anyone, which Garcia breezily comments on, saying the old stories are that once youâ€™ve slept with him youâ€™re never the same.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ca7ec334	type	Two Lines, No Waiting
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ca7ec334	comment	Two Lines, No Waiting: For most of the story, there are two distinct plotlines being followed: the emerging front for the Temporal Cold War, care of Lucsly and Dulmur, and the Axis of Time, care of Ranjea and Garcia. The occasional chapter flashes back to other incidents in Lucsly and Dulmur's careers.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ca9e3345	type	Temporal Mutability
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ca9e3345	comment	Temporal Mutability: The overall theory of time that the series describes puts it closest to category 4. Changes to the timeline, even large ones, will not snowball indefinitely into the future, but still have the potential to cause radical, long-lasting effects lasting upwards of hundreds or thousands of years. The physics also allow for both branching and overwriting timelines. If large enough, a change will spawn an alternate timeline, which exists in superposition with the original and may eventually overwrite it.note The same is true for small changes, but they have so little impact on the future that it hardly matters which branches live or die. When there are a lot of time travel shenanigans going on in the same time and place, things can get messy.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_cc1bd54d	type	Non-Action Guy
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_cc1bd54d	comment	The DTI largely takes Non-Action People, on the grounds that dramatic adventures are not what they're all about. However, as Dulmer points out when the shit really hits the fan, this means they're out of their depth, and have to turn to the nearest Starfleet personnel for whom this sort of nonsense is more routine. Namely, Kirk.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_cf92fea8	type	Cassandra Truth
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_cf92fea8	comment	Cassandra Truth: Kirk's first foray into time-travel ("All Our Yesterdays") is met with skepticism by the Starfleet brass. Not helping is that the ship's computer still has a bug, so they think someone's playing a massive practical joke on them.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: In the alternate timeline, T'Pring still exists, and married Stonn, though with less complication since there was no Spock.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_d7472e4f	type	Kicked Upstairs
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_d7472e4f	comment	A subtle one; Kirk being Kicked Upstairs at the end of his five-year mission, with Enterprise given a major refit, was established in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and explored further in the novel Ex Machina. In Forgotten History, this is now shown to happen in part due to influence from Admiral Delgado, to further his well-meaning, if overzealous, ambitions for time travel experiments. Specifically, with the Enterprise undergoing a major refit, its old engines are his for the taking, along with their unique properties allowing artificial time travel.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_d75a1703	comment	Year Outside, Hour Inside: This is how the eponymous time lock protocol works, causing time to slow within the Eridian Vault at a geometrically increasing rate. Thus the dilation is small at first, but within hours will reach the point where minutes inside are months, years, or even decades outside.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dba4ae4f	type	Arc Welding
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dba4ae4f	comment	Arc Welding: The time-travel episodes of TOS are tied together with the thread of Admiral Delgado's attempts at figuring out time-travel.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: During the Great Psionic War, millennia before the rise of the Federation, many of the advanced telepathic races ended up calling themselves divine and insisting that "lesser" races worship them as deities. Their psionic gifts were offered as proof of divinity.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dcbe8a6e	type	Chekhov's Gunman
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dcbe8a6e	comment	Chekhov's Gunman: Riroa NadamÃ©, a Posthumous Character for the whole series except for one early Flashback, turns out to have huge importance in this story. She was a Deltan temporal cop from the future who passed her "soul" on to Ranjea and impelled him to follow in her footsteps, and as it turns out, she once shared an emotional bond with Daiyar, which she and Ranjea both feel when they meet. It makes them both more receptive to each other, for better or worse.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dd082289	comment	A Million Is a Statistic: Outright invoked by Griswold, when she's saying Kirk should've left some innocent people to die because they were just "statistics". Later on, used by Garcia as she's looking at the crew of the time-ship, and thinks how it was easier to dismiss going back in time with the Verity because the millions killed by the Borg were an abstract. Actually seeing people dead or dying is a lot harder to cope with.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dd5faec5	type	Only Mostly Dead
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_dd5faec5	comment	Only Mostly Dead: Felbog appears to be dead following Kvolan's impulsive use of a temporal accelerator on him, but fortunately, his cybernetic implants manage to keep him barely alive long enough for Andos and Lucsly to get him to sickbay.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_de9047ac	type	Gambit Pileup
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_de9047ac	comment	Gambit Pileup: It stands to reason that, in a facility populated with multitudes of bizarre temporal devices, those involved in the siege have plenty of opportunities to MacGuyver them into unexpected weapons and tools. In fact, Daiyar's skill for doing just that makes it clear that she had foreknowledge of the vault's contents.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e2a6ebc1	type	Closed Circle
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e2a6ebc1	comment	Closed Circle: The time lock is designed to contain any security breaches within the vault, similar to the more traditional Star Trek Self-Destruct Mechanism, except rather than destroy the vault, it places it in what is essentially temporal stasis if it is not deactivated within a few hours. Though it is possible for those inside to communicate with the outside, they are otherwise on their own until the time lock is released.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e3c36782	type	Call-Forward
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e3c36782	comment	Call-Forward: In the Flashback sequence, Spock is surprised that his human colleague thinks of the Onlies planet (a parallel Earth where most of humanity died) as "home". He then reflects that he doesn't know how he'd react if he encountered a timeline where Vulcan was destroyed. The first time the Enterprise tries a slingshot, Spock has brief glimpses of the events of "Assignment: Earth", just as Kirk had brief glimpses of the future in "The Voyage Home". The mission that ends Enterprise's five year journey is filled with them. Chapel, having given up on her crush on Spock after that whole mess with Mudd's love potion, is thinking of becoming an M.D.. Kirk's getting bored with the heartbreak of captaining and is looking to pack it all in. Spock reflects on the many times he's lost emotional control over the original and animated series, thinking maybe it's time he got around to taking the kohlinahr. Griswold, the commissioner sent to ruin Kirk, has attitudes on the Prime Directive more similar to that of Picard's era (i.e., refuse to lift a finger to help people who are dying, even when there's no real risk). It also serves as a transition between the way the Directive is treated in Kirk's era, and that of the TNG era. The fate of the first timeship is similar to the events of "Time Squared", disappearing from existence when the events that caused it to be destroyed don't happen. Scotty, thinking about that Probert fellow he's heard of, mentions the man has ideas about making the saucer sections of starships bigger. In a handful of decades, those ideas will be implement, with Enterprise-D and E having incredibly large saucers. Also, Scott's meeting with Kirk shows the man has shifted from the bold explorer of the original series, to the weary man seen in "The Motion Picture". Spock, post-V'Ger merging, has become more accepting of emotions, reflecting his character development from Wrath of Khan. Another reason the Vulcans are so alarmed by this is because he's reminding them a bit too much of Sybok. Spock is also mentioned to have adopted Saavik. At the climax, T'Pring mentions in the alternate timeline, the Klingons were forced to give peace with the Vulcans a chance after... something happened, but they immediately clam up, just in case they say too much. Alternate T'Pring's parting words to Spock mention an increase in Vulcan-Romulan relations, something Spock finds fascinating...
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: It becomes clear fairly early on that Daiyar has a completely different objective than her mercs, who are just after some expensive goodies to fence. It's not clear what that is, exactly, only that she will stop at nothing to achieve it.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e5fd8bc2	type	Hate Sink
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e5fd8bc2	comment	Hate Sink: Delgado may be a slimey, mildly Insane Admiral, but he's nothing compared to Commissioner Griswold, the bureaucrat he sends to get Kirk in trouble. She's shown to be monstrously callous, officious and obstructive (which is specifically why Delgado sent her). Kirk's assumption that she wouldn't demand an entire civilization die if face with some of that civilization is proven wrong when she immediately yells at Kirk for saving a bunch of primitives.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e68b72	type	The Load
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e68b72	comment	The Load: Lucsly and Dulmur are completely clueless and defenseless in a future they know nothing about. Noi is still glad to have them along, even if they have trouble keeping up, and they have the advantage of being Beneath Notice when the trouble starts, since nobody considers them a threat.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e7b0229a	type	Laser-Guided Amnesia
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e7b0229a	comment	Laser-Guided Amnesia: T'Viss, who was present for the confluence that starts the plot, wiped her memories of it until her timeline caught up. She has to note it was done voluntarily, because trying to forcibly erase a Vulcan's memory is difficult at the best of times.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e83f211c	type	O.O.C. Is Serious Business
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e83f211c	comment	O.O.C. Is Serious Business: Lucsly, on realising Director Grey knew of and authorised the timeship experiment, has a breakdown, complete with punching the wall in anger.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e9e35e8f	type	Exact Words
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_e9e35e8f	comment	Exact Words: Simok tells the Hypathia captain that Spock and alternate!T'Pring are working on a way to solve the problem and increase their efficiency. Fortunately, no-one asks why this requires them to be alone and out of communication for two days... Later on, T'Pring tells her captain there was nothing she could do to prevent the Vedela device going critical. It does require some very precise definitions of "nothing"... and a few outright lies.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_eae41a	type	The Vamp
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_eae41a	comment	The Vamp: Kirk encounters one on the fateful mission that gets him Kicked Upstairs. She's the one ruling what's left of her planet, and tries seducing Kirk. Since he's getting bored of the whole "seduce the beautiful but villainous woman" thing, he tells her to get lost.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: At the conclusion, the Enterprise is saved from a Compact ship by... Commander T'Pring, from the alternate timeline's 24th century.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ec0ce986	type	Spotting the Thread
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ec0ce986	comment	Spotting the Thread: Trying to keep a cover up going in front of Spock? Dumb move. He quickly pulls apart the idea Meijan Grey was in the dark about the second timeship, because she's too smart and the DTI too small for such a thing to go unnoticed by her.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f1492605	type	Redemption Equals Death
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f1492605	comment	Redemption Equals Death: Danlen expresses a moment of regret in his final moments of life, before sacrificing himself to save the heroes from the borged T-rex. Averted for the alternate Jena Noi. With her timeline gone, she decides to stay in the Collectors' era, where she can continue her work in a non-violent capacity.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f2877d9e	type	IncrediblyLamePun
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f2877d9e	comment	Incredibly Lame Pun: One of the two Baccos makes the "beside myself" joke, to the great pain of her duplicate.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f5b974c6	type	Superior Species
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f5b974c6	comment	The Vedala in Forgotten History fit the bill. They're generally benevolent, older than other spacefaring races, very advanced and isolationist, and seem ever-so-slightly smug about their status in relation to younger "child" races. Behind their reasonable manner is the clear belief that Vedala are better than you.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f5e6ed44	type	No Sense of Humor
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f5e6ed44	comment	No Sense of Humor: Lucsly normally plays this trope dead straight, but attempts to subvert it in Dulmur's absence with a few very dry jokes.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f722f635	type	Great Offscreen War
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f722f635	comment	Great Offscreen War: The Great Psionic War, which took place several thousand years ago, between the Sargonians and the Selakar (among others). It ended decisively with the Selakar losing.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f9a8e95e	type	Place Beyond Time
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f9a8e95e	comment	Place Beyond Time: The Axis of Time, a pocket dimension that allows travel between various eras while itself existing outside normal space-time.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_f9f2c33	comment	Admiral Delgado at one point mentions the Federation having sent a fact finding mission to Argelius, where they found out some interesting facts about the local women. And, to continue the Running Gag, we don't learn what it is they found.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_fa4064bd	type	Secret Government Warehouse
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_fa4064bd	comment	Secret Government Warehouse: The Vault on Eris is where the DTI stores all its confiscated time travel tech, including among other things, a large blue box and an antique temporal carriage.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_fbb54ba6	type	Forever War
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_fbb54ba6	comment	Forever War: Jena Noi, among others from future centuries, doubts that the galactic temporal war they fight will, or even can end. With how abused spacetime has become from their constant use of time travel to outmaneuver each other, the quantum probabilities they have spawned have become so entangled that their timelines may forever be one giant knot of conflict that can never be untied.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_fd13beed	type	I Say What I Say
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_fd13beed	comment	I Say What I Say: When President Bacco is temporarily duplicated (long story), the two presidents respond to a compliment with a simultaneous (somewhat sarcastic) "oh, please!" Amusingly, they also snark at each other for making the exact sort of grumpy, sarcastic comments that Bacco always makes.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: This is how the alternate future Federation is portrayed, due to existing in a timeline where there are no protections against unauthorized temporal incursions. The temporal authorities have thus evolved to be more aggressive and interventionist, preferring to take the fight to its enemies and never hold back.
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Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ffad4e9f	type	Shown Their Work
Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations / int_ffad4e9f	comment	Shown Their Work: The author, Christopher L. Bennett, has a degree in Physics and it shows.
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