The committee was headed by Meijan Gray. It worked to create a timeship, which ended up creating an alternate reality . After that incident, the Department was wary of timeship creation. In case of an emergency, it used the sling shot effect. In 2373, it investigated an affair in which the crew of DS9 travelled back in time to 2268. In 2402, the Department completed the Temporal Defense Grid, a system that noted all temporal phenomena in Federation space. In 2444, Admiral Clazorus Vissyr Kazove began new studies at Memory Alpha of temporal mechanics. In 2885, the USS Rubicon was launched.