In the scene in the movie where Kirk and Spock Prime first meet Scotty, it's hard to spot, but there's a tribble sitting in a cage near him. How could Scotty have a tribble at this period in history? When we first saw them way back in TOS "The Trouble With Tribbles", they were a totally new species to the Enterprise crew.
Scotty has a tribble??
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Unfortunately, continuity with the tribbles has already been pissed upon. In an Enterprise episode we see Dr. Phlox had a pet tribble, and was quite familiar with them, even naming off all kinds of facts about them and their homeworld. I think it was the second season The Breach, but don't hold me to that.
So Scotty having a pet tribble isn't as bad as you'd think.
So Scotty having a pet tribble isn't as bad as you'd think.
Really? Wow, didn't know that. Will have to head over to Memory Alpha to check it out.
How could Chekov be 17 as of 2258 in neoTrek, but 22 as of 2267 in classic Trek? Wibbly wobbly timey wimey.
Definitely one of the biggest goofs of the film, if not the whole Trek saga. This still drives me a little nuts.
It's an alternate universe, things are bound to be different!
startrekrcks
Fleet Captain
a little nod maybe to the TOS episode the brilliant The trouble with tribbles.
DontFeedPhil
Fleet Captain
Nah nah nah "days roll by" nah nah nah nah nah...
I believe that's what it was, too...
How could Chekov be 17 as of 2258 in neoTrek, but 22 as of 2267 in classic Trek? Wibbly wobbly timey wimey.
Also, the Federation didn't reestablish contact with the Romulans in the prime timeline until the Neutral Zone border attacks of 2266("Balance of Terror(TOS)") while in the changed history of TREK XI contacted the Empire as early as 2233 in response to the attack on the U.S.S. Kelvin, helping explain why Uhura is fluent in all three dialects of the Romulan language as early as 2258. In an altered timeline dates change and can be markedly different. I'd be more concerned as to why there's a tribble on the Enterprise-D in GENERATIONS during the emergency evacuation scenes near the end of the movie...Worf in DS9 went on to say that the Klingon Empire erradicated tribbles and obliterated their home planet by the end of the 23rd century, which mathematically can be no later than 2299-2300. The seventh movie's 24th century sequences take part in the year 2371.
Nero attacking the Kelvin on the day of Kirk's birth sets up many possibilities for changes to the timeline. Humans meeting Romulans face-to-face, the Chekov family having a child earlier than planned, Scotty meeting tribbles...
In the prime timeline, Scotty had not been marooned on Delta Vega, and Uhura and McCoy had never seen a tribble before, but a human trader knew all about them and was selling them in starbases all over the quadrant. Even Phlox owning a tribble in ENT doesn't mean he had passed on extensive knowledge about them beyond his own lab.
I see no canon violation here. Just some harmless fun.
Seeing this thread made me wonder how noone has been annoyed or angry enough yet to make a thread about how the hell all those T'plana-Haths & Birds of Prey got in the Narada's hangar bay 
Och, aye!He was saving it for lunch.
Skinned, boiled, and stuffed, tribbles be fine eatin'!
Chekov's age being different simply isn't a goof; it is a difference--a minor one, at that--and nothing more. The presence of a tribble on Delta Vega is likewise not a goof and it contradicts absolutely nothing established anywhere previously (nor did the presence of feeder tribbles in Phlox's menagerie, for that matter.)How could Chekov be 17 as of 2258 in neoTrek, but 22 as of 2267 in classic Trek? Wibbly wobbly timey wimey.
Definitely one of the biggest goofs of the film, if not the whole Trek saga. This still drives me a little nuts.
He was saving it for lunch.
Skinned, boiled, and stuffed, tribbles be fine eatin'!
LOL! Tribble haggis. Maybe Scotty was fattening up his pet Tribble(s) for his Burns Night supper.
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