'A Slight change' How certain episodes would be different, sorta, if other things happened early, or late, or ... well you'll get the picture.

Episode Tag: 1x07 "Eye of the Needle" - I think. The Telek R'Mor/20-year wormhole episode.

Starfleet Command, 5 days after the loss of the USS Voyager.

Admiral Owen Paris looked up sharply, and barked, "What did you say?"

"I said we've received a high-priority transmission from the Romulan Senate, in regards to the whereabouts of Voyager, calling for you sir." His aide spoke, really confused and a bit afraid even of what that meant.

He nodded and motioned to his wall display screen. "Put it on screen."

A moment later, the somewhat familiar face of the current head of the Romulan Senate, a woman who seemed to have risen to power too quickly after her husbands death, was on the screen, and she was smiling a little.

"Admiral Paris, I presume."

"Praetor, I am honored to speak with you."

"I'm sure." The sarcasm was subtle, but clear. "I think the honor is mine, however. As the initial message said, I am calling you in regards to your missing vessel, the USS Voyager. My intelligence officer surveilling your ship captured the entire visual record of its disappearance, however, what I am about to send to you is somewhat, unrelated."

"Unrelated, how?"

"Messages from the crew." She said simply, then after a pause, "A situation occured, directly related to these messages, 20 years ago with the science vessel Talvath. The ship came across a micro-wormhole, in the last stages of decay. It's end point was roughly, in the future. Specifically, the Talvoth maintained communications with Voyager through time. The Talvaths' captain made a promise to Captain Janeway, Admiral, to pass on the messages, but only after Voyager was lost. I'm sure your temporal investigations department is at the very last glad that we held back to protect the timeline. Unforunately, he died some time ago, however, by then he had already known he would not live to see his promise through himself. He requested that the senate passes the messages on."

"Forgive me for perhaps sounding ungrateful, but why would the head of the senate contact me personally to do so?"

"The captain of the Talvath was my husband, Admiral." She spoke sadly. "He was, fond, of the ship. He had spent a short time aboard, and thanks to some of the advances in our sciences we had made due to the co-operation between him and voyager in allowing transportation through a wormhole, and the advances in long-range communications, he had a lot of influence in the senate, even before I became Praetor. Even if I were merely a councillor on the senate, I would still be the one to contact you. Even if I were not at all, I still would. Those advances in our sciences did a lot to cement the decision to allow this communication. AS we speak, a high-speed courier vessel is heading for the neutral zone, and will directly transmit the messages to whichever vessel you send to wait..."

Neutral Zone, USS Enterprise-D

Riker looked at the empty space. "I don't like this." He muttered.

"Neither do I, number one. but Starfleet command gave this top priority, and sent the Farragut to armagosa instead."

Riker simply nodded.

After several hours, Data spoke up from Ops. "Sir, I believe a romulan warbird has entered the system under minimal cloak... Indeed, they are heading towards us."

"Red Alert." Picard called.

"Sir..." Riker spoke up, "If they're heading for us under minimal cloak, that means they want us to see them."

"I am aware of that. It also means that there are likely several other ships under full cloak with them."

"Sir, I am receiving a hail from the Romulan warbird." Worf spoke up. "Audio and Visual."

"Onscreen."

A familiar face appeared. "Captain Picard." Tomalak greeted with a small sad smile.

And so, many changes occured. Pathfinder Project made contact by Voyagers' 5th year, rather than near the end of their 6th. The ship that was to be the Enterprise-E was instead given a different name, and the 5th Sovereign class rather than the 2nd took the name after the -D was lost in the dominion war to the Son'a's defence of some ketracel white facility. Suffice to say, that put a premature end to their co-operation in the Baku sector, and the federation council put that project on hold until safe methods to harnass that radiation could be found, as prime directive applying or not many who would have allowed it to happen, had the time to actually think before saying no on the relocation part of the deal.

With borg technology specs transmitted back aswell, thanks to care used with the hirogen relay system that allowed voyager to send more, plus the pathfinder allowing limited communication, well, the dominion war wasn't over, and the borg enhancements to the Defiant, Akira, Sovereign and Steamrunner designs greatly increased their combat longevity.

Jadzia, having not spent more than a peripheral amount of time with worf (which was only when he took the temporary assignment to DS9 before returning to the Enterprise with that whole invasion of carddassia crap) wasn't on DS9 when the battle of chintoka took place. The wormhole still collapsed, but Ben Sisko wasn't greiving for loosing a mentor and best friend and so remained in the war, indeed, improving their prospects.

Also, the Praetor learned of the whole Shinzon thing sometime before even speaking with the federation about Voyager, so that incident didn't even happen. well, sort of. She requested the Ent-E to head to romulus to further peace talks, hoping for something along the lines of the federation-klingon relationship. Learning of Rikers' wedding, she even joined them for the entire thing on Betazed. In this timeline, worf did indeed have to obey the customs, and Data found much amusement.

On the way there was an incident with remans who had attacked in a vessel that would have been bigger and badder with shinzon's part of the whole thing, but since he wasn't part of it, the Ent-E of this timeline was matched evenly with that ship. And it didn't have thalaron weapons.

'Course, with 4 Valdore ships that had been under 'perfect' cloak to escort the ship through romulan space, that battle didn't last long, and ended in their favour rather, favourably.

And all the peace stuff? Meant that the hobus thing didn't exactly happen. well, romulus wasn't destroyed.

Seeing all t his, Q decided on what would happen if Telek R'Mor forgot to get his wife to send those messages for him... with a snap of his fingers, he nodded and went to observe...

Hmm, hirogen relay thing being when the federation learn... oh prometheus being hijacked? that didn't happen before...