Oblivion's Gate (Star Trek: Coda #3)

by David Mack

“The original divergence event was triggered in 2373 by the Borg, who attempted to use a chroniton attack upon the Enterprise-E while it was transiting the Borg’s temporal vortex.”

“I think you might have misunderstood our presentation, Captain.” Data highlighted the last parallel line in the diagram. “We are the First Splinter timeline. Every moment we have lived since the Enterprise-E returned from its mission to 2063 Earth has transpired in this new temporal reality. And the longer it goes on, the more it diverges from the Prime timeline.”

She slapped him hard across the face. “You think too much.” With one strong tug, she pulled his trousers to the deck. “Shut up and be a Klingon.”

Dax nodded as she palmed the tears from her face. “She was my wife.” The slender Trill pushed through her pain and lifted her chin, reclaiming her pride.

and a report that the ruins of the ancient sentient artifact known as the Guardian of Forever had spontaneously reassembled into an entity that called itself the Guardian of Never—which promptly crumbled to dust six seconds later.

«Not where. When. Forward and backward. To end the Travelers and trigger the sequence of Fate. The cycle’s beginning and its end are the same.»