Yes, that's exactly how I've felt most of the time! [Elizabeth sounds glad to finally have someone tell her that she wasn't the only one feeling muffled, so to speak.] I mean, I'm used to feeling some amount of pressure on me, I grew up around it after all, but this was the second most intense suppression that I've felt in my entire life.

[Elizabeth looks curiously at the shirt, frowning slightly. It didn't appear to have changed very much at all--but when Spock explains she looks very excited.] Really? Amazing! I thought I had just brought in the same shirt made of a different material. You know, coffee instead of tea, a blue towel instead of a white one... I haven't done something this complex in a while!

But you know, all universes are subject to alternate timelines. At least, according to the scientists who first discovered these tears. Yes, there are certain things that stay the same through every one--'constants'--but there are things that change--the variables. And they can change the world entirely.