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In flimed scfi I don't think that there has been anyhting like the temporal cold war. As Treknophyle mentioned there are written scfi instances such as Andersons Time patrol series. Also I think I heard of one called mulitiverse or timeline wars that which I think had in part the bad guys starting the French Revolution. I read a short story called A quiet Dry war which featured a time war involving volunteers or proxies but that was up time (forward from the POV of the Character)
It sounds like it could be an interesting idea and could explain some contunity mistakes. I read some where that the bad guys couldn't change the timline to much or else they would disappear.
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Although it doesn't exactly fit the "cold" part of cold war, the closest big budget Hollywood movie I can think of that used a temporal cold-war by proxy idea would be "Terminator" and its sequel.
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Well, maybe this can be a rationalization of all the retconning. This is a new Enterprise that didn't exist in the timeline we're familiar with, created by actions of future agents in response to this unknown race. Which explains why Kirk, Picard, etc. never referred to it. And it used some designs and technologies surreptitiously introduced by those agents, which is why it looks just like a ship from two centuries later in the original timeline.
Nevertheless, I get the sinking feeling that we're going to see ever more of the Braga reset button than ever before. And of course he's still thinking too damn linear for time travel. He's not as smart as he thinks. If someone is sending agents to subvert the 22nd century, why can't their opponents send agents to do the same in the 21st century? And they could leapfrog each other further into the past that way instead of just picking a few years in the 22nd century to focus on. The whole point of time travel is that you have all of time to mess around with. So forget the temporal cold war, how about a temporal arms race, so to speak?
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Well, you can't take a temporal cold war too far, for the same reason you can't take a terrestrial cold war too far. You might blow stuff up. Like, everything. Though in a temporal cold war, the term "everything" becomes far more inclusive.
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