Agreed. That's why I sort of liked my future Trek scenario. Of course we are tempered to already see the humans and vulcans and their partners as the good guys. Wouldn't it be great to see a Federation beauracracy run-amok? Federalism turned into a pseudo-imperialism, with "peace" and "cooperation" enforced by the glowy end of quantum weaponry? And seemingly terrorist rebels striking back through futuristic guerilla warfare.


As a side note, maybe at this time in the future there is some sort of time-travel truce or anti-time travel convention. This might be the one thing all parties agree on, going so far as to install some kind of temporal depressors or dampeners throughout the galaxy. Devices which would prevent any kind of temporal travel into or out of any region of spacetime in which they exist. Stop those pesky time-travel episodes from cropping up, unless the characters could find a really, really compelling and interesting reason to destroy a temporal dampener and time travel (so the writers better have a darn good reason for it). Even then, they would be very limited in their options... as they couldn't travel to anytime/place in which the dampeners existed. These devices would have to be backed by laws strictly punishing any time travellers.

Now that might be interesting... seeing those attempting to influence the past or who arrive from the past/future visciously hunted by multiple parties trying to maintain "temporal integrity"... Jean Claude Van Damme could play one of the "Time Cops".... errrr..... oh..... wait..... #-o