Hi all, nice to be in a community friendly to Abrams Trek!
When the Enterprise was preparing to take off to Kronus, I picked up that the Warp Core was new, and so were the Torpedoes. I wasn't paying attention as closely as I should have, but did Scotty mean to say that the Photons were Entirely new? And were warp cores mentioned by name in Trek 2009?
If not all if this raises the suggestion that Photon Torpedoes and Warp Reactors as we know them are all brand new things installed in the Enterprise just prior to her first five year mission.
It's an interesting thought, since Warp Cores weren't defined in the milieu of the story until Star Trek: The Motion Picture if memory serves. Photon Torpedoes also didn't a distinct mention until TOS: Arena, 19 episodes into Star Trek. Sure, all these things were reconnected backward into the story by subsequent installments, but what if this time they didn't?
Both of these things were of course mentioned in Enterprise (Warp cores centric to the experimental nature of the NX, photonic torpedoes), but since Nero intervened and no temporal Cold War, things look like they happened differently.
When the Enterprise was preparing to take off to Kronus, I picked up that the Warp Core was new, and so were the Torpedoes. I wasn't paying attention as closely as I should have, but did Scotty mean to say that the Photons were Entirely new? And were warp cores mentioned by name in Trek 2009?
If not all if this raises the suggestion that Photon Torpedoes and Warp Reactors as we know them are all brand new things installed in the Enterprise just prior to her first five year mission.
It's an interesting thought, since Warp Cores weren't defined in the milieu of the story until Star Trek: The Motion Picture if memory serves. Photon Torpedoes also didn't a distinct mention until TOS: Arena, 19 episodes into Star Trek. Sure, all these things were reconnected backward into the story by subsequent installments, but what if this time they didn't?
Both of these things were of course mentioned in Enterprise (Warp cores centric to the experimental nature of the NX, photonic torpedoes), but since Nero intervened and no temporal Cold War, things look like they happened differently.
