With all of the improbable things that happened in the new movie - Kirk going from Cadet to Captain, Chekov on the bridge at 17, and other oddities of crew being right there, right then, so to speak, when originally they wouldn't have been - I've figured for quite some time that someone high up in Starfleet was insuring that this command crew came together, regardless of what it took to make it happen.
Before seeing the movie, I figured this was Spock Prime, who I thought had emerged at the same time as Nero, seen things get radically changed immediately, and then gone to Starfleet to try to prepare things as well as possible for the new reality. But as we now know, that's not it.
But I still detect monkey shines, and now I'm thinking that maybe someone or someones high up in Starfleet have access to everything that was in Crewman Daniels' quarters on Archer's Enterprise. Since his future was known by Archer to be destroyed anyway, there would be no real reason (that the 22nd century Admiralty would know about) to be concerned about timeline corruption, no reason to not use the information, and every reason to use it.
Of course, this would have some other implications - like that Nero and Spock would not be from what we've been calling the Prime continuity, but rather from the future resulting from the effects of the Temporal Cold War that we saw on Enterprise. This might please some people, since it would also possibly mean that Romulus Prime (the flaming RV planet of love
) is a-okay.
Thoughts?
Before seeing the movie, I figured this was Spock Prime, who I thought had emerged at the same time as Nero, seen things get radically changed immediately, and then gone to Starfleet to try to prepare things as well as possible for the new reality. But as we now know, that's not it.
But I still detect monkey shines, and now I'm thinking that maybe someone or someones high up in Starfleet have access to everything that was in Crewman Daniels' quarters on Archer's Enterprise. Since his future was known by Archer to be destroyed anyway, there would be no real reason (that the 22nd century Admiralty would know about) to be concerned about timeline corruption, no reason to not use the information, and every reason to use it.
Of course, this would have some other implications - like that Nero and Spock would not be from what we've been calling the Prime continuity, but rather from the future resulting from the effects of the Temporal Cold War that we saw on Enterprise. This might please some people, since it would also possibly mean that Romulus Prime (the flaming RV planet of love
) is a-okay.Thoughts?
