We'll just have to wait until the TNG reboot movie comes out to find out what happens in the 24th century
Alternate universe in the 24th Century
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The important difference is that if Spock Prime altered history, there's no Prime timeline to theoretically return to one day. It's been wiped out for good. Someday maybe some writers will return to it for stories. I like the idea that the possibility is at least open. And I think that's the intent anyway. Why shut down possibilities when you can leave them open?
They still are. Stories set in the 'prime' timeline are still being written.
They need to film more of it!
I'm greedy. I'd rather have three universes to play in than a measly two (and if the Prime and Mirror U's can co-exist, then why not toss Abrams U in there too?)You mean novels or fanfics? Either way, it may not be canon, but it's canon enough for me.
The Prime Universe isn't wiped out as far as TPTB is concerned. They said so.
All it would take is a story good, (read - potentially profitable) enough to warrant going back and some way to cross back over c/would be invented.
All it would take is a story good, (read - potentially profitable) enough to warrant going back and some way to cross back over c/would be invented.
KingDaniel yawns.
Yikes! 
Shit that is scary!
The texture on the uniform - ugh! Why does it remind me of what you put in a microwave?
Anyone else half-expecting a nuDS9 starring Will Smith as Sisko, Smith's son as Jake and Megan Fox as Dax?
Sounds nasty, doesn't it?
Sounds nasty, doesn't it?
When it comes right down to it, what Abrams and Co. did with their new Star Trek is actually nothing new. It's essentially an extrapolation of ideas presented in episodes from ST: TNG like "Yesterday's Enterprise", "Tapestry", "Parallels", and "All Good Things", and is also reflection of the same basic premise upon which the Myriad Universes novel anthology line is predicated (the idea of multiple realities existing simultaneously).
Based on the way that the film ends, I'd like to think that Spock Prime made reunification one of his primary goals in trying to help the Vulcans rebuild their society, so that, by the time of the 24th Century, the Romulans had in fact become allies of the Federation, with the Klingons - based on their being able to study the Narada (as per the scenes which were shot but deleted from the final film) - still being an antagonistic interstellar superpower, flip-flopping the roles played by both civilizations (the Romulans and the Klingons) in the 'prime universe'.
Note: This wouldn't necessarily negate the existence of characters such as Worf and B'Elanna, although it would almost certainly necessitate a change in the circumstances under which they were born and came to be part of Starfleet.
Based on the way that the film ends, I'd like to think that Spock Prime made reunification one of his primary goals in trying to help the Vulcans rebuild their society, so that, by the time of the 24th Century, the Romulans had in fact become allies of the Federation, with the Klingons - based on their being able to study the Narada (as per the scenes which were shot but deleted from the final film) - still being an antagonistic interstellar superpower, flip-flopping the roles played by both civilizations (the Romulans and the Klingons) in the 'prime universe'.
Note: This wouldn't necessarily negate the existence of characters such as Worf and B'Elanna, although it would almost certainly necessitate a change in the circumstances under which they were born and came to be part of Starfleet.
The worst part is that I can almost see Smith trying it. Wild, Wild West anyone?!Anyone else half-expecting a nuDS9 starring Will Smith as Sisko, Smith's son as Jake and Megan Fox as Dax?
Sounds nasty, doesn't it?
That's the same texture found on the uniforms in Nutrek
It's not that big and obvious - maybe the difference is that shiny polyester look. TNG uniforms weren't great but they were never butt-ugly like that.
One of the good things (once I got over the fact that all other Treks never happened... or did they...?) about the nu-Trek is that it does allow a totally new imagining of Trek.
With a nod to chaos theory, we can categorically state that no prime Trek character would have been born, due to the differences imposed on the timeline. Everything would be different. The Federation would have lost the labour, expertise, infrastructure, logical philosophy of the Vulcans, leaving them weaker. This might encourage the Romulans to attack, or the event could prompt a permanent peace settlement. There are so many possibilities. One would expect the Cardassians to be stronger, relative to the Federation and still at war with them.
I just hope they do Trek justice in the nu-niverse.
With a nod to chaos theory, we can categorically state that no prime Trek character would have been born, due to the differences imposed on the timeline. Everything would be different. The Federation would have lost the labour, expertise, infrastructure, logical philosophy of the Vulcans, leaving them weaker. This might encourage the Romulans to attack, or the event could prompt a permanent peace settlement. There are so many possibilities. One would expect the Cardassians to be stronger, relative to the Federation and still at war with them.
I just hope they do Trek justice in the nu-niverse.
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