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Okay so thinking about this made me think about Kelvin timeline TNG and DS9 fanfic. And given the inversions that take place in the Kelvin timeline vs the Prime timeline (Kirk/Spock) that made me think: what would a timeline look like where Tasha lives and Armus kills Worf? https://twitter.com/xcarolinas/status/1388211790379630596
I had a two hour car ride to think about this, it's very ambitious and takes us all the way through Kelvin Nemesis
Okay, so :cracks knuckles: here we go. So Armus kills Worf instead of Tasha. Tasha remains Ent-D Security Chief/Chief Tactical Officer. It's a shame, Tasha thinks that if she'd had a chance, her and Worf could have grown closer--"what might have been" as it were. (1/many)
Maybe in the Kelvin timeline the Vagra III incident happened after the martial arts tournament, and Tasha was on disabled leave after suffering an injury, so Worf is standing in as acting security chief. (2/x)
Everything surrounding the death of K'mpec involves Kurn exclusively without Worf. Kurn still chooses the Enterprise for his Officer Exchange Program, because his brother once served on it.
Kurn asks Picard to be his Cha'DIch when he challenges the High Council's claim that Mogh betrayed the Klingons in the Khitomer Massacre. He does not accept discommendation; he is considered responsible and is sentenced to death by the High Council. Picard grants him asylum (4/x)
aboard the Ent-D. It's almost inevitable that there will be civil war and the Federation will be involved. Duras has already made his move to poison K'mpec, and the succession to Chancellor will come down to Duras and Gowron. (5/x)
K'Ehleyr brings Alexander to the Ent-D while Kurn is there and informs him that Alexander is Worf's son. She doesn't want him raised in Klingon culture, especially in light of impending civil war, but Kurn insists Alexander needs a strong father figure. (6/x)
Gowron offers sanctuary to both Kurn & Alexander. Duras made his move, poisoning K'mpec. Picard is Arbiter of Succession; events take place almost exactly as they played out in the Prime timeline. K'Ehleyr, however, in the Kelvin timeline, survives her assassination attempt (7/x)
Before K'mpec's death, but after Kurn asks Picard to be his Cha'DIch, the Ent-C emerges from a temporal rift and changes the timeline. Now OOC, Michael Dorn left TNG on good terms at the end of Season 1, offered a good opportunity on another project, parted on good terms. (8/x)
So the producers always looked for a chance to bring him back. In the "Yesterday's Enterprise" timeline, Kelvin-verse, Worf is the captain of a Klingon battle cruiser that has recently rendered the Ent-D critically damaged. He must hold the wreckage in a siege (9/x)
While waiting for reinforcements. Guinan tells him he doesn't belong in this time, that he died on the Ent-D on Vagra III as a Starfleet officer, a man of honor. She convinces him that in order to set things right he needs to take the Ent-C back through the rift-- (10/x)
A Klingon would know how to help the Ent-C defend Narendra III from the Romulans. He agrees, the timeline is set right again. Fast forward, Gowron's claim to the Chancellorship of the High Council is challenged by Lursa and B'tor, they have produced an heir of Duras. (11/x)
There is still a Romulan plot to engineer putting an heir of Duras on the High Council instead of Gowron, only this time it's Selok--the half-Klingon Half-Romulan son of Worf and a Romulan woman commander who took him prisoner and made him her consort.(12/x)
The plot is uncovered, tachyon detection grid and all, and Selok's plans to pave the way for the conquest of the Klingons by the Romulan Empire is thwarted. For his failure he is exiled to Remus. Spock still makes his mission to Romulus to begin Reunification (13/x)
Picard is still given the mission of locating him and discovering why he left the Federation, but it all transpires without incident. K'Ehleyr and Kurn struggle with how best to raise Alexander. With a much more stable Klingon Empire, at least for the time being, he spends (14/x)
some time in the Federation with his mother, and some time in the Empire with Kurn, who is given a seat on the High Council by Gowron. A mysterious individual comes to Kurn and tells him he is from the future; he is Alexander's son, and that if Alexander is not allowed to (15/x)
reject Klingon culture and live exclusively in the Federation, he will die and his son will not be able to save him. Kurn agrees after bringing this to K'Ehleyr, and he is brought to Worf's adopted parents who have agreed to take care of him.(16/x)
Sometime in the 6th-7th seasons of Kelvin-verse TNG, Tasha starts seeing Deanna for regular counseling sessions. She is suffering from PTSD from her youth growing up on Turkana IV and she wants to do the work to heal the trauma she suffered. Deanna and Tasha grow close (17/x)
Deanna hesitates to allow their closeness to blossom into a romantic relationship on account of her professional ethics, and so she ceases to be her counselor and the two begin dating. As much as this is what is "official", Deanna still feels a duty to help Tasha heal (18/x)
as a result she is entwined in conflicting professional obligations and her blossoming feelings. She turns to Cmdr Riker for help, Tasha becomes afraid that their Imzadi bond threatens her relationship with Deanna, and after the events of Generations (destruction of Ent-D) (19/x)
She does not rejoin the Ent-E crew, almost considering resigning her commission. She goes to DS9 for a familiar face, Chief O'Brien, who she can catch up with, and share memories of Worf with. Miles introduces her (now Lt Cmdr after Generations) to DS9 staff.(20/x)
She makes fast friends with Major Kira, bonding over their difficult childhoods, but when she learns that Curzon was one of Jadzia's former hosts and that he had a strong identification with Klingon culture, she falls in love.(21/x)
She offers to spar with Jadzia in her holosuite Klingon calisthenics programs, sharing with her the times when her and Worf sparred in similar fashion on board the Ent-D. Jadzia is called upon, given her knowledge of the Klingons, to find out why Martok has come to DS9.(22/x)
Given their blossoming romance, but that even though Tasha is of higher rank than Jadzia she isn't her immediate supervisor, Tasha takes Captain Sisko's offer to make her Strategic Operations Officer, which means she can command the Defiant.(23/x)
Meanwhile, despite her dislike of Klingon culture and the mutual decision to let the Rozhenkos raise Alexander, K'Ehleyr sees much of Worf in Kurn and the two grow close. Kurn, wanting to provide stability to Alexander and honor the memory of Worf, takes K'Ehleyr as a mate.(24/x)
While growing up on Earth, Alexander decides to follow in his father's footsteps and asks Captain Picard to sponsor him for entry into Starfleet Academy-to become the 2nd (mostly) Klingon in Starfleet. Tasha will temporarily join the Ent-E for the events of First Contact (25/x)
Jadzia would have had to have been the one most knowledgeable about Klingon customs to put together the mission where Sisko, O'Brien and Odo were surgically altered to appear Klingon--she'd have had to have been altered also--to expose Martok as the Changeling.(26/x)
Given Kurn's involvement in Gowron's rise to power, and the Klingons' involvement with the Federation and Dominion, he comes to DS9 with K'Ehleyr. Alexander finds a way to get assigned to DS9, under Operations/Security. (Like father, like son).(27/x)
It would've had to have been Jadzia who was captured by the Dominion and brought to the same detention facility where she discovered the real Martok--the two forming maybe a father-daughter bond. This leaving the door open for him to accept her into the House of Martok(28/x)
Returning to DS9, the "You Are Cordially Invited" episode is a double wedding--Tasha and Jadzia, K'Ehleyr and Kurn. All under the banner of Martok's house. In the Kelvin-verse, Jadzia isn't murdered by Dukat/pah-wraith. The Federation defeats the Dominion. (29/x)
I'm getting ahead of myself though. K'Ehleyr shares her feelings--the Klingon Empire is corrupt and something drastic needs to be done or Gowron will jeopardize the Alliance's effort against the Dominion. Kurn offers to be the one to challenge Gowron, to duel him (30/x)
But it's Alexander who steps up, to do what his father would have done if he'd have been there to do it. Alexander challenges Gowron, duels him, kills him. Martok is made Chancellor, then the Alliance defeats the Dominion.(31/x)
Tasha attends Will and Deanna's wedding. By now she has healed the trauma of her youth and is capable of attending the event with no hard or hurt feelings towards her lifelong friends and crewmates. She is present for the events of Nemesis. First: no Picard clone.(32/x)
Selok, the half-Romulan half-Klingon son of alt-timeline Worf and unnamed Romulan captain, has lived in exile in the mines of Remus ever since his failure to engineer the downfall of Gowron. In the mines he has rallied the Remans to form a personal army (33/x)
He discovers thalaron radiation and how to weaponize it. He uses it to assassinate the Romulan senate and seize power as a new Praetor. He takes his personal Warbird, the Scimitar, on a quest for vengeance against Picard and the Ent-E. The Kelvin Remans aren't telepathic (34/x)
So there is no need to use Deanna's empathic abilities to help locate a cloaked Scimitar. The thalaron radiation is unstable enough that it emits a unique energy signature, the Ent-E discovers it and the two ships duke it out. Picard goes to the Scimitar, as does Data (35/x)
Data activates the thalaron generator on the bridge, uses the personal transporter to beam Picard off the bridge and back onto the Ent-E, sacrificing himself to destroy the Scimitar. He leaves behind a recorded holo for the senior Ent-E staff, the same way Prime Tasha did.(36/36)
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