Chapter 26 - What is the Temporal Prime Directive? (Patreon)

“I am not at liberty to say. Q asked me not to and several elements of our conversation fall under the temporal prime directive,” I answered. “While I’m not bound by that directive, I doubt you’d want me to share what I learned.”

Sisko sighed audibly and looked away from me, obviously annoyed at this source of potentially useful information being denied to him.

“No, if the temporal prime directive is implicated, then no, you should not say anything. No matter how much I may want to know,” Sisko responded slowly. He shifted in his seat, the only visible sign of how concerned he really was, but my hearing also detected an elevated heart rate. "The reason I ask is that there is a massive graviton buildup and the station's power has fluctuated wildly on two occasions. We cannot determine the cause, so we believed it had something to do with Q.”