Control and the Future

[FredH]

Since y'all apparently have Tosk on Ignore:

I’m not sure what this has to do with the question of the time jump being because of fan complaints? The quote here seems to provide an entirely different, much more believable in-house reason. In which case, good on Tosk, of course.

(Edit: I’ve just checked, but no, I don’t appear to have Tosk on ignore?)

 

[fireproof78]

Since y'all apparently have Tosk on Ignore:

I think the edit by @Tosk was missed, that's all.

 

[Quantum21]

Since y'all apparently have Tosk on Ignore:

I think redoing the setting because of story elements they want to use so they don't contradict an era of trek as with the Kelvin movies is still a lot different than them pandering to fans.

My observation of Kurtzman quotes in earlier seasons suggest to me they felt stuck by Fuller's insistence on the timeline, so the change was a long time coming.

 

[Saul]

I also had experience working on the [J.J. Abrams] films where we were stuck with canonical problems. We knew how Kirk had died, and we wondered how we could put him in jeopardy to make it feel real. That’s what led us to go with an alternate timeline; suddenly we could tell the story in a very unpredictable way. That’s the same thought process that went into jumping 950 years into the future. We’re now completely free of canon, and we have a whole new universe to explore.

Seems pretty clear to me.