Not trying to snipe at you, but this is what I thought was pretty obvious from the beginning. Q started at a high level overview and then went into some of the operating details. We have often assumed that Q's "flight" is going to land on the ground. Which… Might be true in that Q "brought us down" from 40k.
But this is spaceship earth, where we go one, we go all. The countdown is to a launch, and we are going to a new world. Metaphorically speaking.
We're going to clear the 40k view very quickly and cleanly once it all goes down.
But just from the whole "future proves past" aspect, we are looking at a "winding" of the clock, back from the high level to the operating level. So that when the clock starts, we are going bottom to top.
The thing is, the clock goes into the negatives as a count-down (up, technically) to a T0. Everything prior to T0 is scheduled preparation for the operation.