The anti-time future was a future encountered by Jean-Luc Picard during an incident involving Q at the end of 2370. (TNG: "All Good Things...")
In this future, the USS Enterprise-D was not destroyed at Veridian III in 2371 and continued to serve as the flagship of the Federation for several more years. About five years prior to the events Picard encountered, the ship was almost decommissioned until Admiral William T. Riker took interest in his old ship, and made it his personal flagship. The ship was refitted with a third warp nacelle at some point in the timeline, and was equipped with a cloaking device.
Picard stepped down as captain of the Enterprise and became an ambassador, before retiring to his vineyards on Earth, where Irumodic Syndrome caused his mental pathways to deteriorate. He married Beverly Crusher, but the couple divorced sometime prior to the events experienced by the Picard of 2370. Even after their divorce, she kept the Picard surname, and took command of the medical ship USS Pasteur.
Worf and Riker were both interested in courting Deanna Troi and neither of them did so because of the other person. Troi later died, and Worf and Riker became enemies for the next 20 years. Worf became a member of the Klingon High Council, but his position diminished until he was relegated to the governorship of a small Klingon colony, H'atoria.
Geordi La Forge eventually retired from Starfleet and married Leah Brahms and became an author. He had ocular implants to replace his VISOR. Data held the Lucasian Chair at Cambridge University. He added a streak of grey to his hair.
The Klingons had taken over the Romulan Star Empire, and relations between them and the Federation had deteriorated significantly.
This future was excised when Enterprises from three time periods collapsed the anomaly.
Background
- The Star Trek Chronology gives the date for the events of the anti-time future as 2395. However, this assumes that the crew of the Enterprise-D disbanded concurrent with the end of TNG Season 7. No specific date is given in the episode itself.
- The future that has been seen in the Next Generation feature films indicates that things will follow a significantly different course. The Enterprise-D was destroyed in 2371, Deanna Troi did not die and eventually married Riker, and Worf and Riker did not become enemies as a result. Sadly, one much more negative difference between the anti-time future and the normal timeline is that while Data was alive in that timeline, he had died in 2379 in the normal timeline. The only event that holds true to the anti-time future is the replacement of La Forge's VISOR with ocular implants.