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Could this be set in the Kelvin timeline?

Visually speaking it fits in with the Kelvin timeline except for Vulcan being destroyed. What they could do is say it's part of the Kelvin timeline up until where Vulcan gets sucked into the black hole at which point another universe was created where Vulcan was not destroyed. STD could be part of that new timeline.
 
Visually speaking it fits in with the Kelvin timeline except for Vulcan being destroyed. What they could do is say it's part of the Kelvin timeline up until where Vulcan gets sucked into the black hole at which point another universe was created where Vulcan was not destroyed. STD could be part of that new timeline.
They won't do that, stop dreaming.
 
Visually speaking it fits in with the Kelvin timeline except for Vulcan being destroyed. What they could do is say it's part of the Kelvin timeline up until where Vulcan gets sucked into the black hole at which point another universe was created where Vulcan was not destroyed. STD could be part of that new timeline.

Seems like a lot of work instead of saying "reboot".
 
There's another Midnight's Edge video making the rounds about how the "Prime" isn't really the "Prime," citing some mixture of fact and fiction about the IP rights and ... I just need a drink. I just wish these people could find some other way to bring what passes for joy into their lives.
 
There's another Midnight's Edge video making the rounds about how the "Prime" isn't really the "Prime," citing some mixture of fact and fiction about the IP rights and ... I just need a drink. I just wish these people could find some other way to bring what passes for joy into their lives.

They aren't worth my time. I can hate on Discovery just fine on my own. :guffaw:
 
There's another Midnight's Edge video making the rounds about how the "Prime" isn't really the "Prime," citing some mixture of fact and fiction about the IP rights and ... I just need a drink. I just wish these people could find some other way to bring what passes for joy into their lives.
I just blocked their channel on youtube, so the only way I can see it now is if someone shares it somewhere.
 
At the time, I think the line was supposed to convey to the audience that this wasn't standard TV fare of the time (unfortunately it devolved into it once the show was greenlit), but not seems misogynistic and anachronistic. Like quite a bit of TOS.

Just like the blinky buttons on ship's consoles, the sexism in Star Trek is there not because the show was about that but because it was the time when blinky lights were futuristic, and being mildly to moderately sexist was normal.

And just like the visuals, the social attitudes likewise should and have been updated to fit something made today.

It's a big universe, and an ongoing work of fiction and as such it has the luxury to fix the mistakes of the past, so frankly I find the requirement that it absolutely must perpetuate all the bad stuff instead of fixing it in order to be considered the same universe kinda ludicrous. :shrug:
 
It's a big universe, and an ongoing work of fiction and as such it has the luxury to fix the mistakes of the past, so frankly I find the requirement that it absolutely must perpetuate all the bad stuff instead of fixing it in order to be considered the same universe kinda ludicrous.

You have 79 episodes of the original show setting right in the middle of the Prime timeline, they are kinda hard to ignore.
 
It's a big universe, and an ongoing work of fiction and as such it has the luxury to fix the mistakes of the past, so frankly I find the requirement that it absolutely must perpetuate all the bad stuff instead of fixing it in order to be considered the same universe kinda ludicrous. :shrug:
This. There are a lot of assumptions that have been made over the past 50 years regarding Star Trek that updating is inevitable. And, in point of fact, apart of the art form.

I don't need long convoluted explanations for why they are the same. It's an update to the visuals because 2017.
You have 79 episodes of the original show setting right in the middle of the Prime timeline, they are kinda hard to ignore.
Not to belabor the point (this poor horse) but TMP demonstrates that in 3 years (approx.) the ship can be reworked and uniforms change.

Just like GR and TMP, this is an update to the art form, not the world itself.
 
Can you see Spock joking about rape in the TOS films, or in TNG, like he did in The Enemy Within?

You mean an older more refined version of the character? No. But that is obviously something that is part of younger Spock's character. Not something that can really be ignored. At some point, this Spock is going to make fun of Janice Rand almost getting raped by duplicate Kirk.
 
Seems like a lot of work instead of saying "reboot".
It makes more sense if you picture Emmett Brown

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Like I said in another thread, each time we see a new prequel, it's always after a time travel event from the future introduced newer to the canon. We're seeing the Prime Universe after repeated temporal interference from 2373, 2387, the 26th, 29th and 31st centuries culmulatively battering it's internal continuity.
I never liked seeing Kirk in "our" 1986, what with the Whale Probe.
To me--the TOS Prime history was one where Apollo was never killed and we developed more quickly than we actually did.

Ringships first--a more gradual process.

In First Contact Cochrane was an Earther who jump started twin nacelles early on--but only after a nuclear war.
 
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