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I recognize most of those as things from early TOS episodes that were contradicted even in later TOS episodes. Is that "thousands of light years" thing also an example of that?
I think it's the episode By Any Other Name where the Enterprise explicitly covers something like 1000 light years in 8 hours. Plus there's the trip to the edge of the galaxy in TOS, then to the galactic centre in TAS and again in the films. Pretty hard to square any of it with Voyager's 75 year trip home.
And them casually going back in time to observe Teri Garr
Yeah, that was wild. In City on the Edge of Forever, Kirk was so emotionally scarred by what he did to repair the mess they'd made of Earth's history that he abandoned an timeless artifact of unimaginable scientific value while it was offering him the secrets of the universe. Gene had to fight the suits to let them use "hell" as profanity just to drive home how hurt he was.
One year later and he's casually jumping back to the 1960s just to kinda, y'know, see what was up?
The intro of that episode just casually mentioning that they voluntarily went back in time as if it was just some common routine was rather jarring to me. Until then, time travel occurring in Star Trek had always been some kind of unintentional anomaly.
“Haven’t you heard? The time barrier’s been broken.”