On the side

As the crews of the Artemis and the Spectre were seated one beside the other, Captain Kheren made a gesture towards the first officer of the Spectre and whispered for his ears alone:

"Mister Rodgers, if you do have a sure and safe way to travel back in time to a specific moment of History, and back, I would certainly want to hear about it. I would love to captain a timeship."

Of all officers in the room, maybe even in the whole of Starfleet, no one knew better than Kheren how hazardous, dangerous and unpredictable the primitive time travel ways known so far to modern science were. Beyond the simple fact of the Temporal Prime Directive, there simply was no good way to accurately ensure efficent and safe travel accross time; sending any ship on such an attempt was so full of potential disaster itself as to disqualify the option from the start.

Else, we would solve ALL our problems like this, no? he mused half seriously as his attention was brought back to the subject at hand.

He already knew the problem was not if they could contain the anomaly; nor even how. All this had already been taken care of. And this surprising evacuation idea through the anomaly, even as a last resort, was only good for them in the Federation... and its neighbors, at best... not for the rest of the universe. No, The remaining problem was: would they be allowed to contain it by all those other factions bent on putting the whole Alpha and Beta quadrants to the torch for their own narrowsighted goals?

The next words of Fleet captain Allen Samji about this would be telling.