Now we know, or at least strongly suspect, that the time-line has been altered by the new film to let our heroes have new adventures and save the day in many new ways we couldn't possibly imagine, but have the changes been enough to give us a completely different Federation population a hundred years hence?
Kirk and company will save the universe time and again, but thats not to say from the same threats, the new enterprise maybe assigned to a different sector, leaving another crew to have the encounters of TOS, and Kirk to have the adventures of the other ships in the fleet. Someone else will fight the Gorn and the planet killer etc. These subtle difference will magnify over the years.
The engineers that built the Enterprise-D might well have not been born, the Khitomer Accords may have not been signed, who knows, but it only takes one news worthy event to distract everyone from their destiny enough to mean that 1 lucky sperm was usurped by another and you've got a different person. Dr Brian Crusher perhaps?
But anyway, what this does in effect mean, is that we can in a decade or so, have a brand new TNG on a new Enterprise, that can ignore all of the Original TNG, and even run concurrently with the new Kirk era series.
Some things can't change, Kahn is still out there, V'ger is still tracking its way back to Earth along with the whale people, we just don't need to hear about them, because Kirk was fighing Klingons at the time, and another ship saves the day. That itself would make an interesting series of novels. "Captain Smith of the Starship Invincable encounters the V'ger Probe'
No, I like the opportunities of the new film, and hope it brings new life to series.
Kirk and company will save the universe time and again, but thats not to say from the same threats, the new enterprise maybe assigned to a different sector, leaving another crew to have the encounters of TOS, and Kirk to have the adventures of the other ships in the fleet. Someone else will fight the Gorn and the planet killer etc. These subtle difference will magnify over the years.
The engineers that built the Enterprise-D might well have not been born, the Khitomer Accords may have not been signed, who knows, but it only takes one news worthy event to distract everyone from their destiny enough to mean that 1 lucky sperm was usurped by another and you've got a different person. Dr Brian Crusher perhaps?
But anyway, what this does in effect mean, is that we can in a decade or so, have a brand new TNG on a new Enterprise, that can ignore all of the Original TNG, and even run concurrently with the new Kirk era series.
Some things can't change, Kahn is still out there, V'ger is still tracking its way back to Earth along with the whale people, we just don't need to hear about them, because Kirk was fighing Klingons at the time, and another ship saves the day. That itself would make an interesting series of novels. "Captain Smith of the Starship Invincable encounters the V'ger Probe'
No, I like the opportunities of the new film, and hope it brings new life to series.
