2012
The Doctor was alone again. He had just lost two of his closest companions, Amy Pond and Rory Williams, to the Weeping Angels. He needed to get away from everything. All the Doctor wanted was for the universe to leave him, and the people he loved most, alone. Just once, he thought, surely the universe owes me a favour. He adjusted his bow tie, and with a quick glance at the central column of the TARDIS, pulled a lever which made the ancient machine suddenly come alive. The Doctor didn't know where he was going, and didn't care, just as long as there were no Daleks, Cybermen, Weeping Angels or anything that reminded him of what he had sacrificed to save people he had never even met, or probably ever would again.
2385
As Worf, newly promoted captain of the Enterprise E, stood alone in the turbolift, he thought about the historic mission he was soon to command. Calculated time travel had been attempted successfully before by Captain Kirk, one of a long line of captains of the starship Enterprise before Worf, but as warp drive changed, the method exploited by Kirk and Spock soon became unusable. Now, with data the Enterprise had collected during the Borg incursion into Sector 001 and the subsequent attempt to prevent First Contact, the Federation's top scientists had discovered how to travel through time. Much had been made of the discovery and initially people were excited by the prospect of journeying into the past and the future. However, the Federation knew that time travel would risk the possibility of a starship from the future changing history, and they did not want to find out what would happen if that occurred. So the Federation had begun developing a new directive, dubbed the 'Temporal Prime Directive'. They intended to only outfit a few ships with time travel technology, and had only tested it so far in simulations. It was with great trepidation that they had decided to fit the first temporal vortex drive to the USS Enterprise. After returning from its five-year mission of exploration Captain Picard had finally accepted a promotion to Admiral and left First Officer Commander Worf to take command of the ship.
Archer, Kirk, Picard...Worf couldn't help but wonder whether he would soon join the list of Enterprise captains to command some of the most historic missions in Starfleet's history. Archer had helped found the Federation, Kirk had helped forge an alliance with the Klingon Empire, and Picard had fought off the Borg. Worf knew the ship could handle anything in its path, and he knew its crew was exceptional. Commander LaForge, the chief engineer, had the temporal vortex drive setup just the way he wanted. Doctor Crusher had the best medical experience in Starfleet, and Worf was sure the new senior staff of the Enterprise E would live up to the reports he had heard.
"Captain on the Bridge!" Worf thought to himself that he would never get used to being the subject of that statement. The crew currently on the bridge, mostly Ensigns assigned to supervise the refit the Enterprise had just finished, looked unanimously at Worf. He merely uttered "At ease" and sat down in the centre chair. After Worf looked over reports from various stations across the ship, Chief Miles O' Brien, who had decided to leave Deep Space 9 to become Tactical Officer on the Enterprise E, entered the bridge from the turbolift. "Commander Paris is ready to beam aboard, sir." O' Brien informed Worf. Worf had heard much about Tom Paris, who was to be his new First Officer. After serving on the USS Voyager as helmsman during its seven-year journey through the Delta quadrant, he had become the vessel's First Officer upon its return. When Voyager was decommissioned in 2384, Captain Chakotay had taken command of the USS Sovereign, which had begun testing the new Quantum Slipstream drive, while Tom had spent a year on Earth. Coming with him from Voyager was Lieutenant Harry Kim, who had just finished two years as ops officer aboard the USS Defiant. Worf was intrigued to see how these two would fit in with the longer serving Enterprise crew.