Plot Revealed..MAJOR SPOILERS
- Thread starter Trekster
- Start date
Apparently according to the AICN scoop the Romulans are accidently thrown back to a particular point in time, and when they realise when and where they are it becomes apparent to them that the best thing they can do is kill Kirk. Perhaps the Guardian has been disabled by the Federation and the Rommies reactivate it? Perhaps they have no choice but to go through at a certain moment because if they wait any longer they would be captured before they can go through the guardian?
Shit, there's so many details we don't know that even with this tidbit we can't jump to conclusions.
I suppose there's some sense in which that's true.
It seems quite likely that the point of doing the time travel thing is to "explain" that any of the likely-to-be-many differences in both visual and narrative continuity between TOS and nuTrek can be laid to changes inevitably introduced into the timeline by both the Romulan incursion and Spock's efforts to correct it.
Another thing - The Feds aren't going to leave this planet for anyone to find, Nero isn't going to get in there without one hell of a fight first, perhaps its this fight that causes them to get thrown back to this particular point.
Maybe old Spock is also on the planet trying to stop them but can't get there in time and he is left alone trying to figure out wtf happened, then he goes through afterwards.
Maybe old Spock is also on the planet trying to stop them but can't get there in time and he is left alone trying to figure out wtf happened, then he goes through afterwards.
Since its all about how you execute it, yes. "Originality" is at best nebulous and hard to see until you see it. A guy could come up with a way out, totally "new" idea and it will fail both creatively and critically - but then that same guy could offer insights to something done in ways never imagined before.
The devil is, as they say in the details. Could be the most compelling thing we've ever seen.
Sharr
Whether or not the Feds have anything to say about that is probably up to the Guardian.
Which only tells me - despite what "fans" claim, they actually do enjoy "time travel"... I mean to invest hours and money into a fan production which hinged on time travel as a major element... tells me alot.
Please I don't want to hear: "They stole this from New Voyages" more then a couple times I've had a passing idea and suddenly found it was being done on screen already. That is unless of course you can *prove* the writers were sitting around watching fan films/reading fan fic. This is why that kind of stuff gets dicey. Even in that case I think said things technically belong to the copyright holder?
Actually I recall mentioning the Guardian way back when AICN first brought up "time travel". See more then one person can reach the same conclusion apart from each other.
Sharr
Reminds me a bit of the novel ST:TNG: Imzadi. That starts out 30-40 years post TNG with Admiral Riker telling Captain Weslkey Crusher about how Deanna died. Riker goes back through the Guardian of Forever to save her. There's quite a bit more; I haven't given up too much.
It's very early to get a true rumor that's so detailed. It sounds interesting but I'm skeptical. I'm still here, though, and will be right up until next Christmas. Probably a whole lot longer...
Then there's the novel ST:TNG: The Devil's Heart in which Picard uses his archeology skills to find an ancient stone (The Devil's Heart) which ultimately turns out to be a seed for another Guardian of Forever.
So they took a few episodes, a movie, and novel plots threw them all into a pot and sprinkled in some time-travel and its subsequent reset button?
What's changed?
New management, same old B.S.
God, I hope this is a fake.
What's changed?
New management, same old B.S.
God, I hope this is a fake.
CorporalClegg said:
So they took a few episodes, a movie, and novel plots threw them all into a pot and sprinkled in some time-travel and its subsequent reset button?
What's changed?
New management, same old B.S.
God, I hope this is a fake.
Its called execution, hard to judge until you see how it plays out. And only a Trekkie would even be aware of any of those things. To an outsider its all new.
Sharr
No more time travel stories!
S
Stone_Cold_Sisko
Guest
check the main Star Trek XI page
Its unfair to impose such a prohibition on any new production team. Just cause the previous lot over did it it doesn't follow that the current take will equal the same results...
Sharr
