Anti - time future The anti - time future was the original future of the prime timeline . This future was encountered by Jean - Luc Picard of 2370 , when Q transferred his consciousness to the body of his older self . According to Picard , the events of this future took place 25 years after his time - period . In this future , the had continued to serve as the flagship of the Federation for several decades after 2370 . About five years prior to the events Picard encountered , the ship was almost decommissioned until Admiral William T . Riker took interest in his old ship and made it his personal flagship . The ship was refitted with a third warp nacelle and other technologies such as a powerful phaser emitter and a cloaking device . The Klingon s had conquered the Romulan Star Empire , rather than the empire being crippled by a supernova , and relations between the Klingons and the Federation had deteriorated significantly . Picard had stepped down as captain of the " Enterprise " to become an ambassador , before retiring to his vineyards on Earth , where Irumodic Syndrome had began to cause his mental pathways to deteriorate . He had married Beverly Crusher , but the couple had divorced . After the divorce , she had kept the Picard surname and taken command of the medical ship . The ship had been allowed by the Klingons to deliver medical supplies to the plague victims on war torn Romulus . Worf and Riker were both interested in courting Deanna Troi , but neither did so because of the other person . Troi later died , and Worf and Riker became enemies for the next 20 years . Worf became a member of the Klingon High Council , but his position diminished and he was relegated to the governor ship of a small Klingon colony on H ' atoria . Geordi La Forge eventually retired from Starfleet , married Leah Brahms and became the father of three children and an author . He took ocular implant s to replace his VISOR . Data held the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge University . He had emotions , was able to use contractions , and had added a streak of gray to his hair . This future was altered when Q interfered by transferring the consciousness of Picard from 2370 to the body of his older self . The " Enterprise " s from three time periods created the anti - time eruption and were subsequently successful in collapsing the anomaly . When Picard ' s consciousness was returned to his 2370 self , he shared his experience of how the future was going to unfold with the crew . He caused them to make different life choices , which created new future for the prime timeline , which caused nothing from this timeline to happen . ( ) Appendices . Background information . No specific year was given for the future events . La Forge however stated that it had been close to 25 years since the crew were all together on the " Enterprise " - D . The used this statement as a basis of dating the events to 2395 . However , this would be based on the assumption that the crew of the " Enterprise " - D disbanded concurrent with the end of TNG Season 7 in the original future timeline , although Picard seems to make the same assumption when he states in the present timeline " A lot can happen in twenty - five years . " The episode ' s script also describes the characters as having aged twenty - five years . According to comments by Michael and Denise Okuda in the anti - time future should be considered as an alternative quantum reality . The prime timeline events as they have been seen unfolding in the feature films indicates a clear divergence from the future events depicted in " " All Good Things . . . " " . After Picard had shared his knowledge of that future to the crew , the " Enterprise " - D was prematurely destroyed in 2371 in . Deanna Troi averted her death and eventually married Riker . Worf and Riker did not become enemies . Data died in 2379 while still in Starfleet service , as was seen in . Romulus was destroyed in 2387 as was seen in . The only events that weren ' t altered were the replacement of La Forge ' s VISOR with ocular implant s in and the commissioning of the Negh ' Var warship s by the Klingon Empire as seen in . Apocrypha . Apocryphal works suggest some of the events of the anti - time future are still part of the new timeline .