Prelude to Timelines

Originally, this was on my Deviantart account (and still is) with the following blurb:

"This is the introduction to the prelude of my Star Trek fan fiction/RPG called Star Trek: Timelines. Currently, the RP is inactive, but I couldn't help but post this up anyway, because it's something that everyone seems to like. I Was reminded of it from my recent visit to the Royal Observatory in Greenwich, which is the home of time. Anyway, this is something that I've written off the top of my head, more or less. I hope that you appreciate it as much as everyone else has done..."

One thing I will add is that I do eventually want to bring this extract into a new setting (non-Trek, but influenced by Trek and other sci-fi), as well as the other parts of STT, though I will probably need to bring together everything I wrote in as part of it, as well as some other things too (plus other ST fanfic/RP stuff I wrote ages ago), though right now I'm not entirely sure how to go about this. I may actually copy over some of the other stuff I wrote after this, but it will otherwise be an unfinished story, at least for now. When I do finally get things sorted with my setting, you'll probably find that elements of this will get reused, but will have the Trek bits stripped out. I'm not sure when this will happen though.