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Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

Archer had a bottle of whiskey dating back to the end of the 21st or the beginning of the 22nd century that he saved until just before Trip's death in 2161.
 
Hemmer establishes in Season 1 that 23rd century Starfleet ships had biofilters (they make a point that Gorn eggs aren't detected by them). It's not clear if TOS/TOS movie ships had biofilters since they were first mentioned in TNG.

The Kid Khan episode establishes SNW as a new timeline per the delayed Eugenics Wars date. In this new timeline we assume the same thing happens in Space Seed and Wrath of Khan, more or less.

However, if the new timeline has biofilters as SNW established, how can the events of Wrath of Khan be the same? This isn't something as simple as Khan changing his monologue about fleeing Earth in 1996 to 2036 or whatever. The new timeline has biofilters on all ships now, including presumably the Reliant. How can ceti eel infected Chekov and Terrell be beamed back if the transporters will now detect them as having parasites, without attempts to remove them?
 
Picard highlighted the changed timeline in season 2.

It's Prime-A so to speak.


Hemmer establishes in Season 1 that 23rd century Starfleet ships had biofilters (they make a point that Gorn eggs aren't detected by them). It's not clear if TOS/TOS movie ships had biofilters since they were first mentioned in TNG.

The Kid Khan episode establishes SNW as a new timeline per the delayed Eugenics Wars date. In this new timeline we assume the same thing happens in Space Seed and Wrath of Khan, more or less.

However, if the new timeline has biofilters as SNW established, how can the events of Wrath of Khan be the same? This isn't something as simple as Khan changing his monologue about fleeing Earth in 1996 to 2036 or whatever. The new timeline has biofilters on all ships now, including presumably the Reliant. How can ceti eel infected Chekov and Terrell be beamed back if the transporters will now detect them as having parasites, without attempts to remove them?
 
The Kid Khan episode establishes SNW as a new timeline per the delayed Eugenics Wars date. In this new timeline we assume the same thing happens in Space Seed and Wrath of Khan, more or less.

Wrong. The Khan episode simply revises the Prime universe continuity - a long-overdue fix to a silly anachronism.

In the current Prime universe, the Eugenics War takes place sometime later than now in the 21st century.

See, there's no "timeline" involved to begin with - this is a series of fictional narratives. Sometimes later versions of a story overwrite earlier versions, for a variety of reasons. It happened to Homer. Even Tolkien did a major revision of a turning point in The Hobbit. It's ridiculous to talk about such revisions as "splitting timelines" that don't exist anywhere to begin with except as list entries in some provisional chronology.

Ideally, for as long as Star Trek keeps being made they'll keep pushing near-future events into the near future. Nothing else makes sense.
 
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