Alternate Timeline?

[Starbreaker]

IT ERAZED EBERYTHANG!!!! I HAS NO STARTREK DVDZ OH NOES...

 

[Hartzilla2007]

IT ERAZED EBERYTHANG!!!! I HAS NO STARTREK DVDZ OH NOES...

What about the Blurays man, the Blurays!?

 

[Sharkey]

Star Trek [/I]has usually, but not always, implied a single-timeline philosophy - change the past and you change the future - but for Trek XI, we were basically informed by the writers (via the characters' preternatural knowledge of the "rules" of time travel) that this rule does not apply, and Spock & Nero's actions have created* an alternate timeline, which is the same as an alternate universe.

An excellent summary Temis. I snipped this tiny part only to add an adendum, reminding folks that JJ, Orci, and Kurtzman are the same folks who brought you the TV show Fringe. Their research into contemporary fringe science brought them to the "alternate timeline" theory of today, compared to the single timeline theory which was "fringe" in Gene's day.

(I'm a bit tired of folks saying -- in other threads -- that they made it up to maliciously screw with canon.)

EDIT: And I really don't intend to get into a debate on the accuracy of the "science" in Fringe. Please.