Just some (stupid) questions --

[Franklin]

We've seen "timeline must be set straight" episodes in every series of "Star Trek". Whenever it happens, everything goes back to the "normal" timeline -- the one we're familiar with -- or it's nearly normal, as with what we found out happned to Tasha after "Yesterday's Enterprise". But for the most part, it's the reset button. Make good what went bad, and all goes back to what it was.

So, if Spock prevents Kirk's father from being killed, wouldn't that just set the timeline straight? If Kirk is born as he should be, shouldn't events unfold naturally after that? Why does Spock apparently still have to try to manipulate events after Kirk's been born?

It is an intriguing premise to think Spock is the reason why Kirk is born, but wouldn't it even be more poignant if rather than starting a second timeline, doing that became the reason for everything as we saw it already?

Also, Spock is a great intellect, but now he's somehow going to chart the course of a timeline to make it unfold as close as he can make it to what "really" happened? From his memory? That's godlike power.

 

[Mordock]

Franklin said:
We've seen "timeline must be set straight" episodes in every series of "Star Trek". Whenever it happens, everything goes back to the "normal" timeline -- the one we're familiar with -- or it's nearly normal, as with what we found out happned to Tasha after "Yesterday's Enterprise". But for the most part, it's the reset button. Make good what went bad, and all goes back to what it was.

So, if Spock prevents Kirk's father from being killed, wouldn't that just set the timeline straight? If Kirk is born as he should be, shouldn't events unfold naturally after that? Why does Spock apparently still have to try to manipulate events after Kirk's been born?

The impression I got after reading the AICN report (which I think I'm not unjustified in suspecting is part of a disinformation campaign, but I digress) is that Spock resetting the timeline will restore the timeline as previously established, but also create a separate divergent timeline in which the 23rd-century portion of the movie will primarily be set, the better to ease the disjunction of new actors/new design/variances from canon.

 

[sturmde]

The only long-term value of the Temporal Cold War is that they don't need to create some new crappy excuse, they can just reuse the old crappy excuse.

AICN remember has as its first word "ain't"... why does anyone give it any credence exactly?

 

[Woulfe]

^ Because if it's on the Internet it must be true. ^

So if I said I was the queen of England it must be true because I said it on the Internet, see ?

 

[Jon1701]

Hey, I'm the Queen of England!

 

[Franklin]

My point was when it's taken seriously on it's own, it's such a silly premise, I'm wondering why the rumor had any credence with anyone at all to begin with.