20
A huge question regarding alternate timelines related to Picard.
(startrek.website)
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 02 Apr 2025
20 points (100.0% liked)
Daystrom Institute
3629 readers
1 users here now
Welcome to Daystrom Institute!
Serious, in-depth discussion about Star Trek from both in-universe and real world perspectives.
Read more about how to comment at Daystrom.
Rules
1. Explain your reasoning
All threads and comments submitted to the Daystrom Institute must contain an explanation of the reasoning put forth.
2. No whinging, jokes, memes, and other shallow content.
This entire community has a “serious tag” on it. Shitposts are encouraged in Risa.
3. Be diplomatic.
Participate in a courteous, objective, and open-minded fashion. Be nice to other posters and the people who make Star Trek. Disagree respectfully and don’t gatekeep.
4. Assume good faith.
Assume good faith. Give other posters the benefit of the doubt, but report them if you genuinely believe they are trolling. Don’t whine about “politics.”
5. Tag spoilers.
Historically Daystrom has not had a spoiler policy, so you may encounter untagged spoilers here. Ultimately, avoiding online discussion until you are caught up is the only certain way to avoid spoilers.
6. Stay on-topic.
Threads must discuss Star Trek. Comments must discuss the topic raised in the original post.
Episode Guides
The /r/DaystromInstitute wiki held a number of popular Star Trek watch guides. We have rehosted them here:
- Kraetos’ guide to Star Trek (the original series)
- Algernon_Asimov’s guide to Star Trek: The Animated Series
- Algernon_Asimov’s guide to Star Trek: The Next Generation
- Algernon_Asimov’s guide to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- Darth_Rasputin32898’s guide to Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
- OpticalData’s guide to Star Trek: Voyager
- petrus4’s guide to Star Trek: Voyager
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
Yes. Although it is implied that the extent of the Q testing Picard was by pushing him to cause the problem in the first place, rather than creating it themselves, so that he would realise how it could be fixed, as an example of human thinking beyond their expectations.
We see in Trek that the future is always in Flux. While he had Irumodic syndrome in that future or something like it, in the present, it wasn't actually, but something else like it. There may be a thousand things that could have caused it, that we're not privy to. A space anomaly happens about once a week, and the manifestation of Irumodic syndrome itself might only have happened by chance, like the anti-time anomaly preventing the formation of life on Earth.
At the very least, in the future, there seemed to be no doubt that Picard presented with Irumodic syndrome, enough for his time-jumps to be considered just one of the symptoms.