kelvin timeline and beer

[Brer79]

I could be wrong on this, so I'm sorry just in case.
In ST:IV, Kirk seems to imply he's never heard of beer before, and even gives a confused look as he drinks it.
Maybe it's brewed differently than what he's used to?.
Enter ST:09 and Uhura is ordering beer likes it's no big deal.
Like I said, something I've been thinking about and wanted to share.

 

[F. King Daniel]

In Star Trek IV Kirk says they don't use money, but in ST'09 (and TOS episodes and STVI), they refer to money and payments.

 

[fireproof78]

Unless Kirk is referring to currency rather than electronic.

 

[NCC-73515]

In TVH, people from the 23rd century are surprised about all the primitive cursing, Spock even needs an explanation, but in PIC, cursing is back XD

His reaction is funny, maybe future beer uses a different recipe and tastes better

 

[Smellmet]

I always took his reaction to the beer to be like we would drinking some rank cloudy shit from 300 years ago, or like when Marty has a glass of water in Back to the Future 3.

 

[BillJ]

I could be wrong on this, so I'm sorry just in case.
In ST:IV, Kirk seems to imply he's never heard of beer before, and even gives a confused look as he drinks it.
Maybe it's brewed differently than what he's used to?.
Enter ST:09 and Uhura is ordering beer likes it's no big deal.
Like I said, something I've been thinking about and wanted to share.

IIRC, Bashir and O'Brien drink beer during DS9. As far as The Voyage Home goes, Gillian orders Michelob, which is a brand that Kirk has likely never heard of, then drinks it and it tastes like piss water.

 

[ozzfloyd]

He wasn't a Michelob man.

 

[The Wormhole]

Clearly further proof that Abrams is hedonistic and pissed all over Gene's Vision.

In fact, I'd wager good money the barcode for the beer drank in Trek XI probably started with a zero...

 

[M'Sharak]

In Star Trek (2009) Uhura orders Budweiser Classic. In Star Trek IV Gillian orders Michelob. Both brands are products of Anheuser-Busch (now AB InBev) in the current era, so (in the absence of any explicit clues indicating otherwise) we might assume that those brands are still connected in some form during 23rd-century Star Trek.

Or perhaps both instances were simply the result of real-world product-placement deals, and have no particular in-universe significance.

In fact, I'd wager good money the barcode for the beer drank in Trek XI probably started with a zero...

KIRK: They're still using barcodes in the 23rd century?
SPOCK: Indeed. Most illogical.​

 

[Brer79]

In Star Trek (2009) Uhura orders Budweiser Classic. In Star Trek IV Gillian orders Michelob. Both brands are products of Anheuser-Busch (now AB InBev) in the current era, so (in the absence of any explicit clues indicating otherwise) we might assume that those brands are still connected in some form during 23rd-century Star Trek.

Or perhaps both instances were simply the result of real-world product-placement deals, and have no particular in-universe significance.

KIRK: They're still using barcodes in the 23rd century?
SPOCK: Indeed. Most illogical.​

Nero caused this to happen too.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Nero caused this to happen too.

Dammit, where is my BECAUSE NERO meme when I need it?

...probably on my old photobucket it has been a decade.

 

[M'Sharak]

Nero caused this to happen too.

Dammit, where is my BECAUSE NERO meme when I need it?

 

[fireproof78]

 

[Brer79]

Dammit, where is my BECAUSE NERO meme when I need it?

...probably on my old photobucket it has been a decade.

I just thought of Shaggys "wasn't me"

Never met my father
Cause of nero...
Then I got pulled over
Cause of Nero...
Now I know what beer is
Cause of Nero
Why was it Budweiser?!
Cause of Nero.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Beer has been around for thousands of years. It's ridiculous to think it would be a totally drink unknown 300 years from now.

On edit: I just noticed I swapped "unknown" and "drink" in the above sentence. Please read it in the voice of the alien dude trying to sell McCoy travel permits to the Mutara Nebula.

 

[Kor]

Prime Kirk is just used to quality stuff. There are plenty of beers on Earth right now that would wipe the floor with that macrobrew dishwater.

Kor

 

[Starbreaker]

Star Trek is constantly evolving. Beer has been around for thousands of years and isn't going anywhere.

The simplest answer is that Paramount used an Anhauser-Busch brewery for engineering and got some product placement out of it for '09.

 

[Turd Ferguson]

It could be by the 23rd century Michelob is the equivalent of a shitty beer today like Black Label or Milwaukee's Best

Admiral Kirk is just shocked Gillian would drink such crap (not that Budweiser is much better )