Question about "Conscience of the King" Season One

[trevanian]

And Captain Pike didn't become wheelchair bound the same way as in the other reality.

...To nitpick, Pike might only have been bound to a wheelchair for something like two days in STXI. Or then for life. We'll be waiting for the sequel...

I wonder... Could the TOS events happen in "almost" the same way, in a parallel reality that tries hard to be the original reality? Some sort of "fate" guided Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Uhura, Sulu and Scotty together against all odds in the STXI timeline; perhaps "fate" would necessarily put Kirk together with Garrovick, Finnegan, Finney and other people from his "other past", too.

Timo Saloniemi

But not Mitchell, apparently. Unless he was suffering from Vegan Meningitis or something during the events of TheAbramsThing.

 

[VulcanVixen]

considering Kirk was on Earth.

But I agree that just because Kirk was born on Earth it doesn't mean he couldn't have been offworld at 14 perhaps visiting relatives or something.

I guess that's a possibility, but it's not certain. I was just wondering if anyone had a solid answer that I had probably missed. But, I'm good with the assumptions, they'll help me sleep at night, lol.

 

[Timo]

But not Mitchell, apparently. Unless he was suffering from Vegan Meningitis or something during the events of TheAbramsThing.

Well, Kirk supposedly met him first 15 years before "Where No Man", and then again in the Academy. Since Kirk here had a different childhood, he may have missed his appointment with the young Mitchell - but "fate" might have joined them nevertheless, perhaps in a pub fight somewhere. And "fate" might again have brought them together in the Academy, even though Kirk was late and not yet an instructor of Lieutenant rank.

Neither of these instances need have been mentioned in the movie, which didn't deal at all with Kirk's Academy years and showed very little of his surprisingly moist youth.

Just nitpicking again, mind you. But I'd say that any and all TOS side characters could be worked into Kirk's backstory somehow, seeing how Pike and Scotty were shoehorned in and Spock Prime even suggested that some sort of destiny was working overtime. There's no obvious special case, a special person who wouldn't fit into the backstory now. Well, save for Amanda, whose 2260s and 2280s appearances have been preempted by a force majeure.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[DonIago]

Mitchell was in the conference room just -waiting- for Kirk to show up during the entirety of the movie.

Poor Gary.