Federation Department of Temporal Investigations

The Federation Department of Temporal Investigations is the executive department of the Federation government charged with investigating and reporting on all instances of time travel involving Federation citizens or otherwise affecting the UFP. Fedeartion Starfleet officer James T. Kirk of Earth has the biggest file in the Department's records, with seventeen separate temporal violations.

In 2373, DTI interviewed Starfleet Captain Benjamin Sisko, commanding officer of Starbase Deep Space 9 and the starship USS Defiant over an inadvertant temporal incursion resulting from the attempt of a disgraced Klingon Imperial Intelligence agent to assassinate the legendary Captain Kirk in the year 2268. Temporal Investigations agents later concluded that Sisko and his crew had acted appropriately in attempting to uphold the Temporal Prime Directive of the preservation of history. ("Trials and Tribble-ations" [DS9].)

The Department maintains records that are bathed in chroniton radiation to protect the integrity of historical information from temporal incursions. Disrepencies in protected historical accounts and standard historical accounts alterted DTI agents to a temporal incursion initated by former Starfleet cadet and current extra-dimensional entity Wesley Crusher in the mid-2370s. (Strange New Worlds.)


 * That the Department of Temporal Investigations would be a cabinet-level post is speculative; however, logic suggests that an issue of such vast importance would not be made subordinate to other agencies.