Depressed about Vulcan

[Butters]

Trouble with the divergent continuity is that it renders the whole future history that is the Star Trek universe irrelevant to the new movies. Anything could happen in future installments, all in the name of entertainment, and the original 'canon' doesn't matter. Its like the Prime universe isn't real and none of it ever happened, and arguing about Klingon foreheads is somehow trivial, perhaps even silly, given that Star Trek is really just a big budget crowd pleasing movie. If an extensive knowledge of a fictional future isn't even relevant to a series of movies, then that knowledge will never be important in the real world world

 

[maxleelv]

The old continuity is done because it sucked. It gasped and groaned and finally fell apart due to old age and generally crappy storytelling. A clean sweep was needed. We're well rid of it at this point.

 

[Gojira]

Its like the Prime universe isn't real and none of it ever happened,

Um...it isn't real it is all make believe.

All joking aside you are correct. Now with more than one continuity in Star Trek pretty much anything can go. More continuities can be created and erased to the point where the original is irrelevant. You could have several continuities active each contradicting one another!

 

[Greg Cox]

May I ask how you dealt with it in The Hazard of Concealing, Greg? Was there any hint that Spock Prime knew his timeline was still "out there", with his TNG friends continuing their lives post-2387, in another branch of the infinite multiverse?

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To be honest, my memory is a little fuzzy at this point (that was at least four books ago), but I don't remember making a big deal of it. The book was mostly about Spock wrestling with how much future knowledge he could share with the new timeline. It was about him dealing with the new timeline, not worrying about the old one.

(One of these days I actually need to print out that book just so I'll have a hard copy of my own! At the moment, it's just a couple of old floppy disks!)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Now with more than one continuity in Star Trek pretty much anything can go. More continuities can be created and erased to the point where the original is irrelevant. You could have several continuities active each contradicting one another!

That's exactly how the novels have been, ever since day one. It's been more coherent since Richard Arnold got kicked to the curb, though.

 

[F. King Daniel]

May I ask how you dealt with it in The Hazard of Concealing, Greg? Was there any hint that Spock Prime knew his timeline was still "out there", with his TNG friends continuing their lives post-2387, in another branch of the infinite multiverse?

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To be honest, my memory is a little fuzzy at this point (that was at least four books ago), but I don't remember making a big deal of it. The book was mostly about Spock wrestling with how much future knowledge he could share with the new timeline. It was about him dealing with the new timeline, not worrying about the old one.

(One of these days I actually need to print out that book just so I'll have a hard copy of my own! At the moment, it's just a couple of old floppy disks!)

Thanks for the info. And don't you dare lose that book - I'm plan on reading it one day!!

 

[Greg Cox]

I could see a TV show being done in the future that is set in the original time line. It may not be set in the era of TOS but something in the post TNG era.

Perhaps. But I suspect that any future shows will be set in the current timeline--just because that's the one that will be most familiar to modern viewers.

I mean, they didn't set the new HAWAII FIVE-0 series in the original timeline, did they?

(And thanks, KingDaniel. I promise not to lose those files!)

 

[BillJ]

(And thanks, KingDaniel. I promise not to lose those files!)

I can always back those files up on my personal PC if you like Greg?