New Universe OR Old
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I am excited. Hope the movie lives up to the hype. I'm already referring to the differing timelines as Trek 1.0 and Trek 2.0. What really staggers me is the thought of a series based on the 2.0 timeline.
Most of the time and in most venues the only difference will be visual - nuTrek has yet to overwrite, even inadvertently, most of the history of Kirk and Spock and the rest. Hell, for all we know Kirk in nuTrek is destined to die stopping Soran on Veridian III. 
There are a couple of TOS episodes clearly overwritten by this movie.
There are a couple of TOS episodes clearly overwritten by this movie.
I just call ''OLD'' trek, TREK. & ''NEW'' trek, NU-TREK. It's that simple!
oldTrek and nuTrek - works for "Battlestar Galactica," so it should work for this. 
^I agree!
Yeah, it's like the whole back-and-forth about whether the original series should be referred to as Star Trek or as TOS - folks who favor the former think of it as pride-of-place, whereas everyone actually winds up using the latter simply because it's so much easier for people to understand what you're talking about. Similarly, referring to the original "universe" simply as Star Trek while attaching some other identifier to the new version will just confuse too many people too often.
I just call ''OLD'' trek, TREK. & ''NEW'' trek, NU-TREK. It's that simple!
Yeah, "nu" does sound better.
How do we know there's any difference? The writers would have to go out of their way to state that they are deliberately violating canon. Giving Chekov a brother, something like that. But why bother? There's plenty they can do without mussing a hair on canon's head.
Nah. "nu" BSG was a total reboot - had to be, the source material was crap. Trek doesn't need a radical change like that and won't be getting one.
Nah. "nu" BSG was a total reboot - had to be, the source material was crap. Trek doesn't need a radical change like that and won't be getting one.
Writers can't violate canon, they make it as they see fit. But I know what you mean. As far as I'm concerned everything that happened previously is a wrap. I expect that they'll hold on to some of it, but they're not going to let themselves get bogged down over some nonsense like Romulans having warp drive.
One very unlikely possibility: what if they revisited 24th century Trek under an alternate timeline? I can dream can't I?
I hope it will happen someday. Probably not soon, though.
Hmmm... Abramsverse TNG. It's an intriguing idea, but I'm thinking it would have to come quite a while down the road. There's a lot of new possibilities with the new Abramsverse TOS crew, and I think Bryan Fuller's proposed new series would probably be set in the same era as this film to ride on its (presumed) popularity.
As long as there's no Kirk vs Borg I'm happy. After Voyager and that Enterprise episode it'll be a while before I can tolerate another Borg story...
As long as there's no Kirk vs Borg I'm happy. After Voyager and that Enterprise episode it'll be a while before I can tolerate another Borg story...
CaptainHawk1
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amen, friend. NO BORG
Well, perhaps if they could come up with a cool new take on them for Abramsverse TNG, it might be okay to have them around again. It would have to be something different though, as Voyager pretty much explored them to extinction.
They definitely do not belong in Kirk's era, anyway. Personally I'd like to see a new film dealing with Khan that could function as a sort of prequel to Abramsverse TWOK, as with some minor modifications there's nothing to stop the I-VI movie era from occuring.
They definitely do not belong in Kirk's era, anyway. Personally I'd like to see a new film dealing with Khan that could function as a sort of prequel to Abramsverse TWOK, as with some minor modifications there's nothing to stop the I-VI movie era from occuring.
Basically Space Seed on the big screen? That's not a bad idea. Bringing back the heroes biggest villain certainly worked for The Dark Knight. I would not be surprised if the sequels in the works are a Khan movie and Klingon movie. Those were Kirk's greatest enemies.
She misspoke--it should be hauled away... AS garbage...
(I kid)
Exactly so.
Oh, yeah. Like Star Trek doesn't have any crap in it. At least the original Galactica wasn't taken over by hippies.
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