A big problem is that Tim was written as a self-sacrificing good kid specifically to drag Batman back from the precipice the writers had pushed Batman to in his grieving.

Batman was out of control, and Tim didn't become Robin for any selfish reason - he did it solely to stabilize Batman and protect Gotham from the chaos that would happen if Bruce had continued his grief spiral.

Tim was never written as a side-kick, he was written as an arresting force that happened to be a kid that could fit the role of Robin.

The way Bruce was being portrayed, he didn't want a Robin, and he made sure Tim suffered for it. He pushed Tim more than he ever did any other Robin and was completely unapologetic and unempathtic.

Yes, it got better over time, but there is still that fact.

Of all the Robins, Tim was the only one Bruce didn't choose and he's also the only one that wasn't welcomed into the Batfam.

Tim's parents neglected and emotionally abused Tim... but so did Batman and the others. Becoming Robin didn't resolve Tim's abuse, it just added new dimensions to it.

So while everyone else has felt healed after connecting with Bruce and eventually able to grow into themselves, Tim is still desperately wanting to find acceptance from the Batfam. His development is being arrested by them.

Tim will never be able to evolve further unless the Batfam either fully acknowledges and apologizes for their wrongs against Tim (which they will never do), or Tim must completely walk away from them - must give up on them utterly and never go back.

The writers will NEVER allow either! Despite it being obvious how many of the actions done to Tim was abuse in some form, they will never actually have their hero characters it to being abs. They will also never have Tim take the only other option abuse victims can do - which is to get away. Tim is too good a character to not keep around.

Tim needs to grow, but the only options to do so are ones the Writers don't want to take.

It's wild because we know the 4th Doctor met Shakespeare and then again as the 10th - so really, how many times has the Doctor met him? The funny thing is that. The 10th Doctor almost seems to have forgotten meeting Shakespeare before, so really - how many times might the Doctor have met Shakespeare and forgotten? It's wild to think that Shakespeare might've met the Doctor through many different incarnations and must stay silent so as not to contaminate the Doctor's timeline.

If Janeway had said "Kirk claimed to have met Da Vinci - who later went by the name Flint - but the claim is unsubstantiated" then I could see your point. However that is not what she *said*

"Claimed to have met" could just as well have been one name drop that someone overheard - not a detailed report.

Kirk could just have said something like, "Da Vinci? Met him once, nice man."

No context, no proof. With Kirk having traveled through time on occasions that could just as easily have been attributed to a chance meeting on one of those excursions.

WE know it pertains to Flint, but unless stated otherwise in the series there is no proof that Kirk ever said anything about *Flint* being Da Vinci and that he was in (then) modern times.

The very way that the Da Vinci program was made - visually depicted and acting - makes me think any reference Kirk made was incredibly vague and probably one off. Otherwise why would the hologram seem to have basically nothing in common with Flint?

It's a faulty assumption to leap from "Kirk said he'd met Da Vinci" to mean "submitted a report on meeting Flint who was Da Vinci".

Unless it is stated in later Star Trek canon/episodes/movies, there is no evidence that Kirk broke his word to Flint. Mentioned he'd met Da Vinci? Yes - but a name drop does not a full mission report make.