#576714
Faithful Reader wrote: ↑Fri May 06, 2022 11:50 amThe branch had occurred because Q had already started interfering. They had to reverse what he had done. Failing to correct the changes (or doing nothing) results in the Confederation, making it already divergent. The "countdown" was for the last possible moment that they could reverse the changes, not when the branch itself occurs.Cartagia wrote: Per the showrunners, this is because Picard and Co. have come back from the Confederation future, where the events of Time's Arrow did not happen so she would not have the 18th Century memories of Picard.They came back before the timeline branched. This would be the bottom part of the Y.