Like now mind you like the Elachi they kinda pulled a barest base idea and basically made up almost everything since they were a random one time alien but like still. Enterprise. If I didn't recognize the alien it seems to have come from Enterprise XD

Like on one hand, it makes sense in the context of this was the only older trek show I hadn't seen. But also I just feel like they pulled a lot of species from it as well. (Like with they way the plots worked I was surprised the Elachi were Enterpise, I fully expected them to be Discovery aliens, which when I first played I hadn't yet watched either but no)

the three distinct time travel styles:
1) oops we're here by accident, gotta find a way home without disrupting the timeline.

2) Someone's trying to change the past either we were brought in to stop them or got dragged along. Must stop them without changing the past ourselves

3) Welp. They already changed it a lot but we were sent back to stop them which will reset the timeline. Changing history? Is totally fine. It's already screwed up anyway, everything we do will reset anyway

Honorable mention within both 1 and 2 of "Well, how are we to know they didn't do the thing we're encouraging them to do anyway? We don't. See. History is fine."

How many alternate realities like the Kelvin timeline exist because of this nonsense. That's what I want to know.

Like by all rights shouldn't the Xindi arc have been the start of a new timeline just like the Kelvin incident was? I mean, we're flat out told that wasn't supposed to happen. Time didn't reset, the attack still happened. So why does one time travel attack that wasn't supposed to happen create an alternate reality, yet another alters the future?

I know the answer is plot convenience but like STILL