E2 question

[at Quark's]

So in the 3rd year of Enterprise the Enterprise is thrown 117 years into the past, 26 years before Cochrane's first warp flight, so this should be the year 2037. They can't get back to Earth for that reason.

But, could they have gone to Vulcan for help (given that these already are warp capable, and cultural contamination presumably also would be less)?

Even if only to pester the Vulcan Science Directorate with their 'impossible' time-traveling ?

 

[FredH]

So in the 3rd year of Enterprise the Enterprise is thrown 117 years into the past, 26 years before Cochrane's first warp flight, so this should be the year 2037. They can't get back to Earth for that reason.

But, could they have gone to Vulcan for help (given that these already are warp capable, and cultural contamination presumably also would be less)?

Even if only to pester the Vulcan Science Directorate with their 'impossible' time-traveling ?

Yeah, but revealing to the Vulcans that time travel exists would possibly change their development too…

 

[at Quark's]

True, but they stayed in the nebula and interacted there with all kinds of local races too (for example they got technology that upped their top speed to warp 6.9 and I would imagine they gave something in return for that). If that is OK, why not go to Vulcan?

 

[David cgc]

They're probably concerned that they're living under Back-to-the-Future rules and if they do something outside of the Expanse that alters Earth's history, they'll unhappen themselves.

 

[lkmi]

There was a mention early in S3 that, once you were in the Expanse, you couldn't leave (until the Enterprise crew fixed all that). So I think they chose to focus on what they had to do - inside the Expanse - to prevent the first attack on Earth...

 

[at Quark's]

There was a mention early in S3 that, once you were in the Expanse, you couldn't leave (until the Enterprise crew fixed all that). So I think they chose to focus on what they had to do - inside the Expanse - to prevent the first attack on Earth...

Ah, I don't recall that particular bit of information.

But I suppose that would explain it (and probably it was put there to have an excuse as to why they didn't simply get some backup from some ally outside the Expanse )