Agents Lucsly and Dulmur didn’t have a lot of screen-time, but they and their department sparked a lot of fans’ imaginations. accidentally travel back in time to the events of the Classic Trek episode “The Trouble with Tribbles.” In that episode, we were introduced to DTI agents Lucsly and Dulmur, who were sent to investigate the time-travel events on behalf of their department, which was the Starfleet agency tasked with protecting the integrity of the time-line. The Department of Temporal Investigations is, of course, an agency seen in only one single Star Trek episode: the Deep Space Nine episode “Trials and Tibble-ations,” in which Sisko & co. (It’s a lengthy, sort of confusing title, but I gather that the hope is that there will be future installments of novels, under the Department of Temporal Investigations heading. Bennett has done so with gusto in his latest novel Star Trek Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock. I have been waiting for the Star Trek novels to address this enormous dangling story-line, and I am very pleased to report that Christopher L. (At one point Future guy helped Captain Archer, and at other times Daniels appeared to be less than totally truthful.)
I write “apparently” since various episodes offered sometimes contradictory information as to who was really trying to do what. We saw some apparently heroic characters (Daniels, who appeared to be from a future Starfleet), and apparently villainous characters, such as the mysterious figure glimpsed throughout the series whose identity was never revealed (leading to his being nicknamed “Future Guy” by many fans). Factions of this Temporal Cold War were repeatedly seen to be interfering in events of Captain Archer’s time, but to what end was never clear. Ever since the show’s pilot episode, “Broken Bow,” we’d been hearing about a mysterious Temporal Cold War, apparently being fought throughout time by time-travelers from the future. (Click here for my review of the first novel in that series, Kobayashi Maru, and I’ll have reviews of the other two novels in the series coming soon.)īut there was an even bigger story-line left painfully unresolved at the end of Star Trek: Enterprise. Martin (along with, on the first novel, Andy Mangels) has been telling the story of the Romulan War in a series of Star Trek novels. (And, indeed, several episodes from Enterprise’s fourth and final season hinted that the show might indeed be heading in that direction.) Fortunately, Michael A.
Many Star Trek fans, myself included, had been hoping that Enterprise would one-day chronicle the events of the Romulan War hinted at in episodes of the Original Series. When Star Trek: Enterprise was cancelled after four seasons, it left several story-lines hanging.
Star Trek Department of Temporal Investigations: Watching the Clock
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