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From: You don't have to be crazy to be in Starfleet...A discussion at work, someone asked, “IF the Star Trek Federation has 150 members, why do all the series take place on or around humans?”
“Well, think about it. If any other species were the ones making decisions, the shows would be really short, or incredibly tedious."
(1) Starship encounters a temporal anomaly.
Andorians avoid it.
Tellarites avoid it.
Vulcans put up a space buoy so that everyone can avoid it.
Romulans attempt to weaponize it… Then avoid it.
Klingons shoot torpedoes through it, then read history books to see who blows up, and when. …Then avoid it for the honor of the Empire.
Every sane species of space traveler, including the fucking Packleds, avoid it.
Humans go through it, save Abraham Lincoln, try to come back, find that their initial passage through the anomaly destabilized it, randomly flip switches in the engine room until their warp field is compatible with the anomaly, come back, find that Lincoln’s

Starship encounters a temporal anomaly.
Humans go through it, save Abraham Lincoln, try to come back, find that their initial passage through the anomaly destabilized it, randomly flip switches in the engine room until their warp field is compatible with the anomaly, come back, find that Lincoln’s chosen successor made Hitler look like Little Mary Sunshine, ignore every known method of time travel they’ve ever encountered, INCLUDING THE ONES THEY INVENTED, and start flipping switches again…

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From: You don't have to be crazy to be in Starfleet...A discussion at work, someone asked, “IF the Star Trek Federation has 150 members, why do all the series take place on or around humans?”
“Well, think about it. If any other species were the ones making decisions, the shows would be really short, or incredibly tedious."
(1) Starship encounters a temporal anomaly.
Andorians avoid it.
Tellarites avoid it.
Vulcans put up a space buoy so that everyone can avoid it.
Romulans attempt to weaponize it… Then avoid it.
Klingons shoot torpedoes through it, then read history books to see who blows up, and when. …Then avoid it for the honor of the Empire.
Every sane species of space traveler, including the fucking Packleds, avoid it.
Humans go through it, save Abraham Lincoln, try to come back, find that their initial passage through the anomaly destabilized it, randomly flip switches in the engine room until their warp field is compatible with the anomaly, come back, find that Lincoln’s

Starship encounters a temporal anomaly.
Humans go through it, save Abraham Lincoln, try to come back, find that their initial passage through the anomaly destabilized it, randomly flip switches in the engine room until their warp field is compatible with the anomaly, come back, find that Lincoln’s chosen successor made Hitler look like Little Mary Sunshine, ignore every known method of time travel they’ve ever encountered, INCLUDING THE ONES THEY INVENTED, and start flipping switches again…