"Maybe both? Or neither? The events that changed my timeline had nothing to do with you."

A certain troubled Romulan, yes. Influential Human, no.

At least, not that Human.

(Dammit, Kirk.)

"So maybe in both of these, you went to the future and came back and proceeded anyway because that's your timeloop. Or maybe you'll go back and...cause a third future. Sometimes more than one timeline can exist, depending on the parameters."