I'm Worried About T'Bonz (New Movie Spoiler)
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She has excellent aural sensitivity. 
Well, Romulus exists in the altered timeline. As for the old timeline, it appears to be gone (although the Star Empire will still exist).
*peeks out of the Ladies Room*
Is he still here?
Is he still here?
Better hope Bonz doesn't read the MU novels...
Mirror Universe Romulus was destroyed too. In fact that happened first, before ST XI! It was the MU story "Homecoming" in Shards and Shadows
Does MU Nero travel back in time too?
^ "Homecoming" has nothing to do with ST XI. It's a New Frontier story. Nero isn't in it. The similarity in ending, such as it is, would appear to be a coincidence.
In "Homecoming", it ends with Romulus being destroyed by a doomsday weapon. Ironically, it was a weapon that the MU Romulans had been hired to develop for the Klingon/Cardassian Alliance, who promptly decided to test it on Romulus itself. Praetor Hiren orders all surviving members of the Romulan Fleet to join Mac Calhoun and the Terran Rebellion. There is no time travel at all.
*grumble!* Both my favorite planets destroyed, one in each timeline.
Nobody better cross me for a while.
P.S. T'Bonz is half Romulan-half Vulcan, all attitude. Note the username.
I believe this explains the success of T'Bonz's team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Clearly, the Steelers are composed of half Romulan-half Vulcans with superior strength and, now, attitude. We can therefore expect the Steelers to repeat in 2010.
Trip dying is exactly the sort of thing I mean. Somebody with a contract to write a book didn't like it so they decided to undo it.
Somebody decided to undo Kirk's death too. Trip died. He died in a stupid, wasteful, disrespectful to the fans way, but he died. Section 31 weren't involved, it wasn't a fake death, he died.
Romulus was destroyed in the original timeline because we saw it destroyed and Spock said it was destroyed. Unless we're calling Spock a liar now, of course.
No, but he is an exaggerator, See Star Trek II.
Maybe Romulus just suffered a Chinese Burn.
There's nothing particularly imaginative about just undoing what someone else already did.
In the mainstream Star Trek continuity, Romulus was destroyed, Spock said as much and we saw it happen. He didn't imagine it. And in the new movie continuity Vulcan was too. I can't really help it if a few people are in denial about those two things any more than I can help people who are in denial about the Beastie Boys still be popular with kids or Nokia still being in business.
Trying to pretend that the two things didn't happen in some follow up novel is like finding Bobby Ewing in the shower and pretending everything you just watched was all a dream.
I'm sure that's why the Trek Lit writers feel obligated to revisit Spock's Brain and Threshold in every novel that they write.
It's not about pretending anything. It's about telling a story that puts what you thought you knew in a different light, sometimes with significantly different outcomes as a result. Both the original story and the revisit show entirely truthful things and mesh 100%, but the implications of the original are proven false and a more interesting outcome substituted via the additional story.
All we know about Romulus' destruction is that Old Spock experienced it. But he's part of the new timeline, so that doesn't give us any information about what the old timeline experienced.
Now, if Countdown does indeed show the E-E bopping around after Romulus poofed, then that's a (non-canon) argument in favor of the same happening in the original timeline.
I believe this explains the success of T'Bonz's team, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Clearly, the Steelers are composed of half Romulan-half Vulcans with superior strength and, now, attitude. We can therefore expect the Steelers to repeat in 2010.
In that case, T'Bonz will need lots of T'errible T'owels of course.
