u/too_many_shoes14

Hear me out. Please actually give this some thought.

Earth is give or take 4.5 billion years old. For 2 billon years, nothing. Then single celled organisms for 2 billion years. The multicell creatures for another 2 billion. Then dinosaurs for 250 million years. Then the rise of mammals for 250 million years. Modern primates even remotely resembling humans have been around about 500,000 years. Anything close to a person about 200,000 years ago. Modern humans 100,000 years ago. The earliest stories in the Bible happened 5,000 years ago. We didn't even invent electricity until about 350 year ago The internet was invented 45 years ago. Baby Shark was first posted to Youtube in 2016.

Are we just a blip on the radar? Do we mean nothing and we just like the first pile of goo that formed the first simple protein or amino acid which created the first amoeba or first fish that crawled out of the ocean and managed to breath on land?

It's almost 20 years old and we still play it a couple of times a month and it still works great. Boom Blox and Boom Blox Bash Party are really fun games which people pick up on right away so you don't have to be a gamer to enjoy them. Even my Grandmother enjoyed that game may she rest in peace.

You're in the remote Kentucky mountains, far from any ocean.

Telegraphs haven't been invented.

You are 3 hours from the nearest college where they might be a professor who would know the answer.

There is no library you can reach in time.

Feel free to disagree.

There are two possibilities why the Klingon's didn't fire torpedoes or cloak in the final battle.

The first reason is because they were aware of how the temporal vortex was created in the first place, because there was a spy on the C or the D reporting to them. They knew it was a volley of torpedoes which created the rift, per Garrett's report to Picard, and they wanted to avoid opening another one because they liked this timeline. A spy on board would also explain why they were able to locate and ambush in the attack that killed Garrett. They figured it was more likely Picard wouldn't order the C back through time if the C was damaged in an attack.

The second possibility is more radical and that is Picard was lying about the Federation losing the war. The Federation was actually winning the war, but Picard wanted to save lives on both sides, and he thought lying to Garrett would be more effective in convincing to go back and prevent the war from starting in the first place. The Klingon ships, due to battle damage or supply disruption, could no longer fire torpedoes or had exhausted their supply. This would also explain why they didn't cloak in the final battle.