Double Helix-New Frontier Q
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Well look at it this way. If you believe that all these incompatible works are alternate realities in the same multiverse, then you must believe that all these realities share a common history to some point and at least share the Big Bang or something.
Well, the Shatnerverse portrays the Preservers as a malicious species still alive in the 24th century who can collapse the prime and mirror universes into each other. Star Trek Online portrays the Preservers as the same species as the progenitor humanoids from "The Chase" and are still alive in the 24th/25th century. The IDW TOS comics have the Organians protecting the Preservers' legacy. The modern novelverse is inspecific about the Preservers, but they are definitely not the progenitors, may or may not be an organization and not a species, strongly hinted to not be malicious, may or may not be alive in the modern era, and the Organians have zero connection to the Preservers. And I don't think physics in the modern novelverse allows for whole quantum realities to be collapsed into each other with anything except Q power.
How can you say that all these sub-franchises are alternate realities that branched off a common origin if their entire concepts of a species or organization that has existed since prehistoric or modern times are different?
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Actually I wonder why we think of the Preservers as a "species." A species would not be entirely and perpetually dedicated to a single activity or practice, nor would a civilization. I've come to think of the Preservers as more of an organization, like Greenpeace. It might represent just one group within a species, or have members from multiple species.
And since their one known act took place no earlier than the 17th or 18th century (since Native American populations wouldn't have been endangered before then), they're actually a modern group, not an ancient one. In general usage, something has to be at least a millennium or two old to qualify as ancient. Thus, there's no reason to expect their species to be extinct by the 24th century, whether or not the organization survives.
And why anyone associates them with the Progenitors is beyond me. They created life rather than preserving it, so the name doesn't even fit. And that's aside from the huge gap in time between the 17th century CE and 4 billion BCE.
And since their one known act took place no earlier than the 17th or 18th century (since Native American populations wouldn't have been endangered before then), they're actually a modern group, not an ancient one. In general usage, something has to be at least a millennium or two old to qualify as ancient. Thus, there's no reason to expect their species to be extinct by the 24th century, whether or not the organization survives.
And why anyone associates them with the Progenitors is beyond me. They created life rather than preserving it, so the name doesn't even fit. And that's aside from the huge gap in time between the 17th century CE and 4 billion BCE.
^Noted. I will adjust my post accordingly.
^Oh, you didn't have to change your post -- it was just an idle observation.
Gotcha. But I'm attentive to detail.
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