The reason for asking is that at the end of the first episode, Q comes back. He then changes their current timeline to a totalitarian 'confederation' by changing something back in 2024 in LA.

Now that the small crew have travelling back to 2024 and about to go looking for 'the watcher' one of them warns the others to avoid anything that can scan them and pick up the signatures from their ID andvaccination chips, that don't exist yet.

I mean, someone is playing games coz that isn't any kind of co-incidence.