Nitpicking Star Trek: TNG “All Good Things…” Q’s Just Messing with You

I can wrap my head around Anti-Time. I can certainly buy an Anti-Time Anomaly that gets bigger as goes further into the past. What I DON’T understand is that if TRULY is getting bigger as it travels into the past, WHERE is it when Future Picard shows up in the USS Pasteur? If it’s traveling into the past from the moment of it’s creation, it should be there in the future as well.

For it to be a truly anti-time anomaly it would have to be there when Future Picard arrives. It would be there but small right up until the point of it’s creation and then it should disappear right after it’s creation. If it’s moving against the regular flow of time it cannot exist in the future after it was created. (See the diagram). That said, at that point in the episode if it had disappeared as soon as the Pasteur had sent out the inverse tachyon pulse beam, Picard would have thought the problem solved

Since the Anti-time anomaly is not working by the very laws Q states should be governing it, we can only assume that Q is messing with things either to torment Picard or to skew the test so Picard could actually pass because Q likes Picard and humanity.

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