Could Star Trek be Re-rebooted?

[Toril Toran]

Could Star Trek be re-rebooted?

Could someone be sent back in time to fix the Hobus Star? This would mean Spock did not have to try to fix it, and fail.

Romulus, Remus, and Vulcan would still exist.

Or is the universe more stable this way?

(I believe Vulcan and Romulus would have re-united anyway.)

Was this done on purpose by shadowy agencies?
( Section 31)

Could this be done without causing temporal paradoxes?

Discuss

 

[The Wormhole]

Vulcan does still exist in the Prime universe, we see it plenty of times in the 32nd century on Disco. And it's not Hobus in canon, that comes from the non-canonical tie-in material for Trek XI, which admittedly a few other things over the years have acknowledged over the years, like STO. But Picard S1 established it was in fact the star in the Romulus system that went nova, and that's canon now.

Anyway, could the Romulan supernova be "undone"? Sure, theoretically, anything could be done. But why would it? Why would Paramount feel the need to go and undo a critical plot point from a movie that made them money sixteen years ago? Why after continuing to use the destruction of Romulus as a key plot point in Picard and Disco would they want to undo all that? "Because they can" or "because some fans were upset by this" are not legitimate reasons for going forward with this.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Could Star Trek be re-rebooted?

Could someone be sent back in time to fix the Hobus Star? This would mean Spock did not have to try to fix it, and fail.

Romulus, Remus, and Vulcan would still exist.

Or is the universe more stable this way?

(I believe Vulcan and Romulus would have re-united anyway.)

Was this done on purpose by shadowy agencies?
( Section 31)

Could this be done without causing temporal paradoxes?

Discuss

Yes. But why?

Yes. But again, why? Need more motivation than "Boo Hoo, Romulus is gone:"

As mentioned, Vulcan is fine in the Prime.

Well, yeah. They could be involved, Again what is their motivation? They don't normally do time travel hijinks

Of course it could. Unless the story calls for temporal paradoxes.

 

[fireproof78]

Could Star Trek be re-rebooted?

Absolutely!


And Praxis could still be around too, as well prevent other tragedies.

Plus, we could establish Vulcan as being conquered or not in their history. It would be great to answer that question.

Lots of possibilities.

 

[Alexander Corrino]

Of course you could. It's Star Trek. Alternate universes and "what if" scenarios are part of this franchise's DNA.

 

[Lord Garth]

Star Trek could be re-rebooted, but I don't think any of this is how they would do it.

Such a Star Trek would have as much connection to everything we've seen up to now as The Batman (2022) has to the Dark Knight Trilogy. None.

Unlike with Star Trek (2009), next time they'd do a reboot and want to advertise it as such, I think they wouldn't use kid gloves. If it happens.

 

[Dukhat]

Could Star Trek be re-rebooted?

Could someone be sent back in time to fix the Hobus Star? This would mean Spock did not have to try to fix it, and fail.

Romulus, Remus, and Vulcan would still exist.

Or is the universe more stable this way?

(I believe Vulcan and Romulus would have re-united anyway.)

Was this done on purpose by shadowy agencies?
( Section 31)

Could this be done without causing temporal paradoxes?

Discuss

None of that is going to happen, because none of the changes that created the Kelvin timeline affected the ‘prime’ timeline in any way. It still exists; therefore there is no reason to go back and prevent Nero’s incursion from happening. The only real issue is that Prime Spock is now trapped in the past of the Kelvin Timeline, and that isn’t a factor anymore because he’s dead.

And as far as the Romulan star going nova (it’s not the ‘Hobus star’ as that name is non-canon and has been contradicted anyway), even if there was a successful way to prevent it, very little would have changed, based on what we saw in PIC.

 

[Toril Toran]

I was more asking if you thought it was possible, or would it cause too many ripple effects in time.
Could there be possible paradoxes?
What kind?

 

[F. King Daniel]

Absolutely!


And Praxis could still be around too, as well prevent other tragedies.

Plus, we could establish Vulcan as being conquered or not in their history. It would be great to answer that question.

Lots of possibilities.

Let's just stop World War II and go from there...

 

[Nerys Myk]

I was more asking if you thought it was possible, or would it cause too many ripple effects in time.
Could there be possible paradoxes?
What kind?

Of course it's possible in an in-universe sense. Plenty of precedent there.
Sure. Again plenty of precedent.
All kinds.

 

[Dukhat]

I was more asking if you thought it was possible, or would it cause too many ripple effects in time.
Could there be possible paradoxes?
What kind?

That's up to whoever writes the script.

 

[Lord Garth]

Let's just stop World War II and go from there...

I know an even better place to start. Have the Russians land on the moon first! Beat the Americans by a month.

 

[Shawnster]

Sure. SNW is already doing that. Seems like Pike's eventual fate is a fixed point in time, but most everything else is malleable.

When the next series after SNW retells Kirk's 5 year mission, we'll see how this soft reboot unfolds.

Yeah, I know, pure speculation. Could work, though

 

[E-DUB]

Section 32 cleans up after Section 31.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

It could’ve rebooted and honestly, I wish they would. It might reinvigorate my interest.

I know an even better place to start. Have the Russians land on the moon first! Beat the Americans by a month.

Really hoping you enjoyed that show. I think it’s magnificent.

 

[Haggis and tatties]

Ib

Sure. SNW is already doing that. Seems like Pike's eventual fate is a fixed point in time, but most everything else is malleable.

When the next series after SNW retells Kirk's 5 year mission, we'll see how this soft reboot unfolds.

Yeah, I know, pure speculation. Could work, though

I would even be happy if or when the new Kirk takes over from Pike, we jump right to the 4th year of that 5 year mission, making the show continue from were TOS left off, making it all one series, with a small 56 year gap between season 3 and 4, which has to be one for the history books.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Ib

I would even be happy if or when the new Kirk takes over from Pike, we jump right to the 4th year of that 5 year mission, making the show continue from were TOS left off, making it all one series, with a small 56 year gap between season 3 and 4, which has to be one for the history books.

I'd love a jump to Post-TMP. Which would also give a the BTS folks chance to play with "new" uniforms and sets.

 

[Lord Garth]

It could’ve rebooted and honestly, I wish they would. It might reinvigorate my interest.



Really hoping you enjoyed that show. I think it’s magnificent.

I did. For All Mankind is now one of my Top 3 favorite shows of all-time, alongside Mad Men and Better Call Saul. I finished all four seasons and can't wait for the fifth. I'll be posting my full thoughts in the SF&F Forum after I finish getting through DS9 S3 and VOY S1 in my Re-Watch Threads.

 

[Campe]

Could they reboot Star Trek? Sure.
Will they? Probably not in the near future. Canon is too precious to some corners of fandom and to the creatives in charge.

I’d like to see it, just from the perspective of what can Trek do without guardrails of any kind. I’d like to see them take some serious dramatic chances with known quantities.

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I was more asking if you thought it was possible, or would it cause too many ripple effects in time.
Could there be possible paradoxes?
What kind?

If Romulus is saved then the immediate effect is Picard doesn't retire early, Laris doesn't move in with him, and Soji isn't able to work on the Borg Cube. The darkness of the Picard era is mostly because of the attack on Mars, so that wouldn't change, but the events of Picard season 1 would play out differently. Maybe all organic life is wiped out by robots, that'd be a bit of a difference. Picard season 2 features a trip to the Prime Timeline's past, so if that doesn't happen in a similar way then everything after the 21st century shifts.

The Romulan Star Empire is one of the major players in the "Alpha Quadrant" so I imagine going forward the differences would grow. It'd be like the Kelvin Timeline, where things are familiar, but different in ways that can't be predicted. The Discovery future would be probably be familiar but different as well, considering how timelines tend to go in similar directions.

Meanwhile the Kelvin Timeline itself wouldn't exist at all, or if it did it'd be a lot more like the Prime Timeline.