Come for the Trek, stay for the crushing realization of mortality in the face of the inexorable creeping of time.

Janeway, going back in time to save the 3 crew members she really liked, instead of going back a few more years and saving all of them.

Some of the best dialog in all of Star Trek at the opening of Trials and Tribble-ations when Sisko is interrogated by agents from the Department of Temporal Investigations:


DULMUR: Captain, why did you take the Defiant back in time?
SISKO: It was an accident.
LUCSLY: So you're not contending it was a predestination paradox?
DULMUR: A time loop. That you were meant to go back into the past?
SISKO: Erm, no.
DULMUR: Good.
LUCSLY: We hate those. So, what happened?
SISKO: This may take some time.
DULMUR: Is that a joke?
SISKO: No.
LUCSLY: Good.
DULMUR: We hate those too.

The thing about Janeway is that she has always considered seven as her daughter of sorts. In a way, the story is pretty realistic. Many parents never recover from losing their child and many of them develop mental illnesses and such as a result. Living in a world that gives the option of time travel could easily lead a parent to the sort of steps Janeway went to to save Seven.

"Thanks to Kirk and Spock, we're not speaking german." pregnant pause


thanks, got a good laugh out of me

I haven't watched the video yet, but it's Janeway isn't it? How could it not be Janeway.

To be fair, Janeway also took the opportunity to bring back a bunch of future anti-borg weapons to blow up that massive borg transwarp hub and infect the hive mind with malware. Soo... technically her plan wasn't just to make things slightly better for her crew, but also to deal a crippling blow the borg collective at a point in time where they would be vulnerable (and also get her crew back early).

Not sure if that makes it any less reckless, though.

In 20 years time you're gonna have to come back to this video again.

"that was... 7 years ago?"

Yes, Steve, when one gets to 40-ish, time suddenly goes Warp 9.5.

You overlooked Yesterday’s Enterprise in TNG. Pretty reckless sending Tasha back - resulting in Seela’s birth and all the ramifications of that..

It's interesting to think that in Star Trek 4, the crew traveled in time in a vehicle previously owned my Christopher Lloyd.

"We do not discuss it with outsiders".

- Lt. Worf.

They're all time travel episodes, just most of the time, they're traveling in the same direction at the same rate.

"where did the time go?" - I wonder the same thing every time I look at my kid - also "where the hell did that thing come from?".

"thanks for Kirk were not speaking German" I kinda wished for that joke a second before it came. very nice.

"Janeway is audacious, and gutsy, and gets it done, but that doesn't mean she ought to have done it!"
You've done it! You've perfectly summarized VOY!

Future me to past me: "Buy Amazon stock."

I'm so glad you did and Captain Archer, Enterprise / Doctor Beckett, Quantum Leap joke. I know it's low hanging fruit, but sometimes that low fruit is just so sweet.

Janeway is a solid second place, but we don't even know how many species - yes whole species - Annorax has erased from history. Dialog in the episode suggests that they've been doing it for so long that even they don't know anymore.

You may never see this comment now, but I just had a horrible realization after watching DS9 S4 Ep2 - The visitor, that Jake Sisko is actually the most reckless time traveler - who erases over 60 years of history, costs Jadzia her life,  Nog his legs and sparks the entire Dominion war.