So the timeline changes when

[ElCap?]

Nero travels back in time to when Kirk was first born, which was on board the USS kelvin and Nero destroys the ship in hopes of killing Kirk to change the timeline but instead when Nero destroys USS Kelvin, Kirk's parents are killed but Kirk survives and the timeline is changed anyway

So the only way to restore the original canon timeline and stop Nero is to travel back in time to just before the USS Kelvin was destroyed and stop Nero and prevent him from destroying the Kelvin- is this right?

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

So the only way to restore the original canon timeline and stop Nero is to travel back in time to just before the USS Kelvin was destroyed and stop Nero and prevent him from destroying the Kelvin- is this right?

Guess they won't be restoring the "canon" timeline then.

 

[ElCap?]

So the only way to restore the original canon timeline and stop Nero is to travel back in time to just before the USS Kelvin was destroyed and stop Nero and prevent him from destroying the Kelvin- is this right?

Guess they won't be restoring the "canon" timeline then.

Well doesn't Old Spock travel back in time to the 23rd century because he knows the timeline has been changed and he attempts to stop Nero from changing the timeline but does Old Spock even know when and how the timeline has been changed?

 

[Therin of Andor]

So the only way to restore the original canon timeline and stop Nero is to travel back in time to just before the USS Kelvin was destroyed and stop Nero and prevent him from destroying the Kelvin- is this right?

We don't know. I have a feeling Spock will be attempting to do a repair, but we don't know if he's completely succesful.

Have you ever seen "Yesteryear"? Spock repairs the timeline in that TAS episode, and is seemingly successful but, in fact, the timeline is not restored to its exact form. In the original timeline, Young Spock's pet sehlat lived. In the restored timeline, I-chaya died saving Spock from the lematya. He's managed to save his younger self from dying in the desert, his parents marriage, and prevent his mother from dying in a lunar shuttle accident, but the premature death of a pet is declared a timeline change he shall have to live with, for the better good.

 

[The Academic]

Nero travels back in time to when Kirk was first born, which was on board the USS kelvin and Nero destroys the ship in hopes of killing Kirk to change the timeline but instead when Nero destroys USS Kelvin, Kirk's parents are killed but Kirk survives and the timeline is changed anyway

So the only way to restore the original canon timeline and stop Nero is to travel back in time to just before the USS Kelvin was destroyed and stop Nero and prevent him from destroying the Kelvin- is this right?

I very much fear that what we know, what we don't know and what we think we know might be three completely different things...

 

[USS Mariner]

Personally, I'd argue that the beginning of the film begins in an "alternate" universe from the get go, given how little resemblance the Kelvin bears to either the NX-01 or the 1701.

Perhaps it's just a visual reboot, and the events prior to (and after) Nero's interference would remain unchanged, but given how slavishly that the prior productions emulated TOS's look when they dealt with it's time period, I'd still argue that it's another timeline (technically.)

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

I'd argue that the beginning of the film begins in the Star Trek universe, because of how closely the Kelvin resembles virtually every other "Starfleet" ship we've ever seen - including the NX-01 and the 1701.

 

[JuanBolio]

We don't know the Nero was intent on killing Kirk. He seems to have more of a beef with Spock than anything else. The destruction of the Kelvin might've been incidental.

 

[USS Mariner]

Clever use of the film title, Dennis.

 

[miraclefan]

Personally, I'd argue that the beginning of the film begins in an "alternate" universe from the get go, given how little resemblance the Kelvin bears to either the NX-01 or the 1701.

Perhaps it's just a visual reboot, and the events prior to (and after) Nero's interference would remain unchanged, but given how slavishly that the prior productions emulated TOS's look when they dealt with it's time period, I'd still argue that it's another timeline (technically.)

I don't know if you were being ''sarcastic'' but I think the Kelvin is very much a decendent of the NX-Class, it has a Saucer, Nacelle, Deflector dish, plus it's weapons ''pop-out'' like the NX-01's! Oh and Polaris, I like your ''Dr.Stewie'' Avatar!

 

[Unionized Elf]

It would seem the timeline changes with the destruction of the Kelvin and the death of Captain Robau. After all, you kill someone that badass, the ramifications to the timeline are going to be extreme.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

The time line obviously scures off into another tangent when the Kelvin is destroyed, the Star Trek Universe we're aware of (which includes TNG DS9 and VOY etc) still exists but Spock has now disappeared from that particular timeline and universe and exists now instead in an alternate universe created by his own time travelling.

Therefore the new movie is not the same Trek universe we've grown up with but is a completely new one where anything is now possible.

The explanation given for the movie would seem to indicate that whenever time travel has occured in Trek we've been introduced to new timelines and universes. The resulting new timelines have always been kept the same however thanks to our heroes sorting out the problems. So in First Contact the Borg and Ent-E created a new timeline but one that ended up following the same general path. In the new movie Spock has altered the timeline so drastically that there will be no rectifying it so this new timeline will be completely different from the one Spock came from.

Get me?

 

[USS Excelsior]

Also the question is what causes the change in the technology and ship designs...

 

[The Academic]

The time line obviously scures off into another tangent when the Kelvin is destroyed, the Star Trek Universe we're aware of (which includes TNG DS9 and VOY etc) still exists but Spock has now disappeared from that particular timeline and universe and exists now instead in an alternate universe created by his own time travelling.

Therefore the new movie is not the same Trek universe we've grown up with but is a completely new one where anything is now possible.

The explanation given for the movie would seem to indicate that whenever time travel has occured in Trek we've been introduced to new timelines and universes. The resulting new timelines have always been kept the same however thanks to our heroes sorting out the problems. So in First Contact the Borg and Ent-E created a new timeline but one that ended up following the same general path. In the new movie Spock has altered the timeline so drastically that there will be no rectifying it so this new timeline will be completely different from the one Spock came from.

Get me?

Got you. I've been carrying the same standard into battle for quite a while now...

 

[Michael]

Also the question is what causes the change in the technology and ship designs...

The changes are only visual. It's a film made in 2009. That's all.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I can easily overlook the visual changes. The Enterprise still has the same general appearance on the outside and I can just imagine that the Enterprise in TOS is the same ship. That's the beauty of the imagination.

An easier explanation could be that the guy who eventually get's hired to design the constitution class ship ended up being killed aboard the Kelvin so a different guy designs the Constitution class in this altered timeline.

 

[USS Mariner]

Also the question is what causes the change in the technology and ship designs...

The changes are only visual. It's a film made in 2009. That's all.

That's kind of what I said, but everyone jumped on me.

 

[USS Excelsior]

One theory I thought of was maybe some 24th century technology gets left behind and they use that to develop more advanced technology than they would have in the original timeline.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

One theory I thought of was maybe some 24th century technology gets left behind and they use that to develop more advanced technology than they would have in the original timeline.

Left behind from where? Neros ship wipes the floor with the Kelvin and leaves.

 

[Kelso]

At the beginning of the film, Nero will travel back to 1985 and prevent Katherine from mowing down Bobby with her car.