10 Times Star Trek Foretold The Apocalypse

10. Books of Daniels

When it comes to the apocalypse, there was one fake crewman on the first warp five who wore his name well. An almost spiritual figure in his observatory, Daniels had a few divine revelations for Captain Archer about all things temporal*. There was a war being fought over the very future, past, and present of space and time.

In his role as doomsday prophet from around the 31st century, Daniels did more than predict the end of days, he also enacted it. When he plucked Archer from the timeline in Shockwave, Part I, Daniels condemned a whole bunch of skyscrapers and the rest of Earth to oblivion. No Captain of the NX-01, no Federation, one cataclysm to end it all but the books. A little light reading and some delicate electronics, however, and the apocalypse didn't last.

After that, Daniels failed to foresee the Xindi threat, but he made up for it by providing hindsight of a possible plague in Detroit, and foresight of the fate the Sphere Builders were looking to avoid. Then, before the Temporal Wars could conclude when they started, Daniels had to die in orbit of the altered Armageddon on Earth. Back alive by the 32nd century, the soothsayer had another pseudonym, and one book in a Red Directive nearly led to the end of everything in the place where everything (humanoid) began.

*in both senses of the word.