Temporal anomaly

A temporal anomaly or time anomaly was a disruption in the spacetime continuum which can be related to time travel. Temporal anomalies can take many forms and have many different effects, including temporal reversion, the creation of alternate timelines, and fracturing a vessel into different time periods. (; )
In 2373, Q was sad he couldn't go around causing temporal anomalies anymore, since he'd have to take care of his son. ()
Later that year, the encountered a temporal anomaly in an energy barrier surrounding a planet in the Gamma Quadrant. As a result of this encounter, the Defiant was thrown back in time two hundred years, and subsequently crashed on the planet's surface. Realizing that they had no way to get back to their own time, the crew established a colony on the planet, which they named "Gaia." Two hundred years later, the descendants of the original colonists contacted their counterparts on the Defiant, which had just arrived at the planet. When the crew of the Defiant learned what had happened, and that if they attempted to avoid the encounter with the anomaly that the colonists' timeline would collapse and they would cease to exist, they committed to recreating the accident in order to preserve the lives of their descendants. The plan failed, however, due to the influence of Odo's counterpart, who was still alive after two hundred years, and who reprogrammed the Defiants autopilot in order to save the life of Kira Nerys, with whom he was in love. Scanning the planet, the crew of the Defiant found no trace of the colony, which was erased from existence due to Odo's actions. ()
In the 2380s, the entered a temporal anomaly in the Delta Quadrant and was flung fifty years into the future and deposited over the planet Solum after it had already been decimated by the native Vau N'Akat in a catastrophic civil war following first contact with the Federation over whether to pursue relations with them, which resulted in the fall of their civilization and near-extinction. The Protostar was captured by a Vau N'Akat organization called The Order who planned to send the ship back through the anomaly with a weapon called the living construct that they installed aboard in an attempt to destroy Starfleet, thereby averting first contact. But before they could launch their plan, Captain Chakotay and Commander Adreek-Hu managed to escape imprisonment, though they were unable to disarm the construct nor board the ship to escape. As a last resort, Chakotay remotely sent the crewless ship back through the anomaly to prevent the Vau N'Akat could enact their plan, stranding him and his crew in the future. With only a 1% chance of success, The Order launch 100 ships, each containing one agent and one Drednok into the anomaly after the Protostar before the anomaly collapsed. Most were destroyed, and those that weren't were spat out in random places and times. ()
In 2401, temporal anomaly was listed as one of the results in Raffaela Musiker's search for the "red lady". ()
==Temporal anomalies==
*Anti-time eruption
*Energy vortex
*Causality loop
*Nexus
*Space-time fracture
*Temporal displacement
*Temporal distortion
*Temporal explosion
*Temporal inversion
*Temporal fracture
*Temporal fragment
*Temporal flux
*Temporal rift
**Kerr loop
==Factors==
*Chroniton
*Temporal mechanics
*Time
==Effects==
*Alternate timeline
*Temporal causality loop
*Temporal paradox
==See also==
*Spatial anomaly
*Subspace anomaly
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