No, it retcons a handful of lines from an episode and a movie, not 50 odd years of storytelling. The impact on the stories and the franchise as a whole is negligible.
Timeline proof.
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Exactly. The exact dates of the Eugenics Wars are completely irrelevant to 99% of the franchise. Does it really make a difference whether Khan comes from 1996 or 2046?
Absolutely. Whether or not the Khan is from 1996 or 2046 will create a ripple effect that will culminate in whether Queen Grudge the Cat will tolerate Admiral Vance the time Book leaves her behind with him or not.
Think of the implications.
Thank you for articulating this opinion. I don't agree because in my opinion a story should stand or fall on its own. But, it kinda off makes a little more sense.
I don't take the franchise as a whole. I take stories as they come.
As long as they don't change anything after First Contact with Vulcans, I won't mind too much (and yes, I realized Yesterday's Enterprise basically did that).
Well that's not quite the same, since those were timelines created for the purpose of the stories in those episodes, not really something we've known for a long time.
Like I implied above though, this could barely change the actual events of TOS. Same as Voyager Home, First Contact (probably), and Yesterday's Enterprise didn't seem to significantly change history.
I dont see how history wouldnt be changed by delaying a war for 50 years. Whole lineages would change, people who died would live and vice versa. Kirk would not meet the Botany Bay, lost in space from the year 1996. Even if the Botany Bay still launches, it wont be on the same trajectory at the time Kirk originally intercepts it.
Thank you. Apologies to herofhyle, I hadn't checked the listings, and assumed that TMP was still the highest grossing film adjusted for inflation.
No worries.
That's how Trek treats time travel. Such changes don't adjust history that much.
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Trek rarely explore the real large scale implications of messing with the timeline. The closest they’ve come might be City on the Edge of Forever with the Enterprise, Starfleet and the Federation not existing.
Says you. When a tike has something they're not supposed to they can be pretty fast.To be fair, tikes can’t travel very far on their own…
And I'll now go fix my typo now that my requisite snark is out of the way.
Says you. When a tike has something they're not supposed to they can be pretty fast.
Fast, yes. Far, no.
And I'll now go fix my typo now that my requisite snark is out of the way.
Then my work here is done.
Tribbles are organic tags which can identify any timeline instantly. It's not that they're born pregnant; it's just that they embody bleedthrough from other realities. Quantum signature scans of the little furballs will confirm which timeline they belong to. They care nothing for the Eugenics Wars despite some of their number being modified in a lab. They are well aware of the animosity directed toward their species from Klingon Ecowarriors, but don't really understand it. For them, they exist in all timelines and are happy to trill in all. They are ubiquitous throughout the galaxy. Even the Caretaker examined them, but found them lacking. Once there was a Service Tribble who gave emotional support to the Time Soldier, Yor, from another dimension. The Tribbles brought forward in time to Deep Space Nine were unaware of any discontinuities in their environment because they seem to thrive in bars where there's alcohol and adoring humans and their assorted sandwiches. And that's where they ended up following the funny light show.
What Starfleet never learned about Tribbles is that when their trilling is synchronized across their whole species, you can pick one up to hold it to your ear, and you will then be able to hear events occurring in other timelines. They are living portals.
What Starfleet never learned about Tribbles is that when their trilling is synchronized across their whole species, you can pick one up to hold it to your ear, and you will then be able to hear events occurring in other timelines. They are living portals.
That's always been my explanation. Now, how did they get beamed out through the Jenolen's shields?Must've been those 0.003%
So did TNG, but I don't see anyone complaining about that.
According to TOS the last world war was in the 90s, TNG and later productions moved the start to the early 2000s.
We need a "here's a solution to unanswered story gaps and apparent plot holes" thread
Holy crap, isn’t that every thread lately?
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