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In recent years, samples of time-varying object data such as time-varying networks that are not in a vector space have been increasingly collected. These data can be viewed as elements of a general metric space that lacks local or global linear structure and therefore common approaches that have been used with great success for the analysis of functional data, such as functional principal component analysis, cannot be applied. We propose metric covariance, a novel association measure for paired object data lying in a metric space (\u03a9, d) that we use to define a metric autocovariance function for a sample of random \u03a9-valued curves, where \u03a9 generally will not have a vector space or manifold structure. The proposed metric autocovariance function is non-negative definite when the squared semimetric d2 is of negative type. Then the eigenfunctions of the linear operator with the autocovariance function as kernel can be used as building blocks for an object functional principal component analysis for \u03a9-valued functional data, including time-varying probability distributions, covariance matrices and time dynamic networks. Analogues of functional principal components for time-varying objects are obtained by applying Fr\u00e9chet means and projections of distance functions of the random object trajectories in the directions of the eigenfunctions, leading to real-valued Fr\u00e9chet scores. Using the notion of generalized Fr\u00e9chet integrals, we construct object functional principal components that lie in the metric space \u03a9. We establish asymptotic consistency of the sample-based estimators for the corresponding population targets under mild metric entropy conditions on \u03a9 and continuity of the \u03a9-valued random curves. 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