All this talk about "Prime" and the Abramsverse is pretty ridiculous.
Based on the current state of play, all the studio Star Trek productions fall plausibly into three continuities:
TOSVerse - the original TV series and, more or less, the TOS-based movies;
JJVerse - or whatever you want to call it: four movies set in a rebooted version of the TOSVerse;
TNGVerse - the TV shows produced since Roddenberry revived his version of Star Trek in 1987.
Based on the stated and evident efforts of a lot of writers and artists, beginning with TNG, to maintain as coherent a narrative continuity as possible, all of the modern TV shows can be fit into the TNGVerse without a lot of heartache:
This way of sorting it all out will spare a lot of folks a lot of anguish and conflict as the post-STD projects set in the 23rd century - the "Kirk era" - inevitably roll out over the coming years. The creatives behind these shows make sufficient effort to keep most of this stuff straight with the modern Trek shows that while Pike Trek or Kirk 2.0 will drive a lot of old-timey trufans batty in their divergence from the original Star Trek, they'll probably work real well as backstory to TNG.
Based on the current state of play, all the studio Star Trek productions fall plausibly into three continuities:
TOSVerse - the original TV series and, more or less, the TOS-based movies;
JJVerse - or whatever you want to call it: four movies set in a rebooted version of the TOSVerse;
TNGVerse - the TV shows produced since Roddenberry revived his version of Star Trek in 1987.
Based on the stated and evident efforts of a lot of writers and artists, beginning with TNG, to maintain as coherent a narrative continuity as possible, all of the modern TV shows can be fit into the TNGVerse without a lot of heartache:
- Enterprise
- Discovery
- The Next Generation
- Deep Space Nine
- Voyager
This way of sorting it all out will spare a lot of folks a lot of anguish and conflict as the post-STD projects set in the 23rd century - the "Kirk era" - inevitably roll out over the coming years. The creatives behind these shows make sufficient effort to keep most of this stuff straight with the modern Trek shows that while Pike Trek or Kirk 2.0 will drive a lot of old-timey trufans batty in their divergence from the original Star Trek, they'll probably work real well as backstory to TNG.
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