Temporal violation
A temporal violation was a report filed by the Department of Temporal Investigations when it was determined that an individual under Federation jurisdiction had not complied with regulations designed to ensure minimal contamination of the timeline in the event of time travel.

In 2373, Department member Lucsly told Captain Sisko that James T. Kirk had the biggest file on record, with seventeen separate temporal violations. ()

Background information

The seventeen violations on record were not named in the episode. Some of those seventeen could be:

The events from 
The events from  
The events from , though the  travelled through time under Starfleet orders
The events from  
The events from , though Kirk's mission was to restore the timeline damaged by Leonard McCoy
The events from , though Kirk was not responsible for the damage to the timeline
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The events from 

The list of temporal violations was amended to eighteen in the novel Forgotten History when it was revealed that Kirk had been involved in an accident with a prototype timeship that became trapped between 2275 and 2380.

See also
 Temporal incursion

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