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Should the Kelvin Timeline be merged with streaming Trek?

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    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • Negative

    Votes: 12 85.7%
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Boris Skrbic

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If the argument is made that the Kelvin Timeline maintains its actors and specific look and feel in another dimension or whatever, then the next step is to imagine the same for TOS, which doesn’t seem to be the official policy. TOS was updated for 2017, so the Kelvin Timeline could follow in the 2020s, and we’d just have different events, unexplained character ages and the butterfly effect on technology, but otherwise Peck could play Quinto’s Spock also and so forth.

Or would it simply be too soon?
 
Leave them separate. TOS, Kelvin and Strange New Worlds (which whatever they claim, is really a reboot)

There's no need for homogeny. I much prefer the DC movies and shows with their wildly varying approaches to the far more samey Marvel output. And just like Crisis on Infinite Earths, all the different Treks can cross over any time they want.
 
Boris Skrbic said:
If the argument is made that the Kelvin Timeline maintains its actors and specific look and feel in another dimension or whatever, then the next step is to imagine the same for TOS, which doesn’t seem to be the official policy. TOS was updated for 2017, so the Kelvin Timeline could follow in the 2020s, and we’d just have different events, unexplained character ages and the butterfly effect on technology, but otherwise Peck could play Quinto’s Spock also and so forth.

Or would it simply be too soon?
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crossovers continued to happen apparently between Kelvin timeline and Prime. Since they're putting that into recent episodes of Discovery, and also stating the Mirror and Prime universe are "Drawing further apart" I doubt there will be any attempt to merge anything.
 
As noted, to dispel the idea that TOS continued to exist in another universe if the KT also did precisely as shown in the films. Recasting and redesigning would only emphasize the new paradigm where Trek is no longer period, but rather subject to continuous updates allowing writers and producers to play in the most familiar era but also change it as required to fit the day and age.

Besides, it would also streamline budgets, enable the KT to continue on TV (perhaps as streaming film specials) if not necessarily in theaters. Actors who can no longer return would be recast as needed, other actors would be shared just as Nimoy was. I doubt it would happen as long as there is a chance for the next film to be made, but as soon as that stops being an option, writers might want to use their streaming resources to give us another peek into that timeline.
 
Boris Skrbic said:
As noted, to dispel the idea that TOS continued to exist in another universe if the KT also did precisely as shown in the films. Recasting and redesigning would only emphasize the new paradigm where Trek is no longer period, but rather subject to continuous updates allowing writers and producers to play in the most familiar era but also change it as required to fit the day and age.

Besides, it would also streamline budgets, enable the KT to continue on TV (perhaps as streaming film specials) if not necessarily in theaters. Actors who can no longer return would be recast as needed, other actors would be shared just as Nimoy was. I doubt it would happen as long as there is a chance for the next film to be made, but as soon as that stops being an option, writers might want to use their streaming resources to give us another peek into that timeline.
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I don't follow this logic at all. Trek, as a production, is open to continuous updates regardless of timeline. Discovery has already demonstrated that by explicitly referencing "The Cage":
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That said, Kelvin Trek takes great pains to illustrate that it is different from the Prime, even from TOS prior to Discovery. The conflict with the Klingons is more muted, Kirk's life unfolds differently without his dad, Pike dies, etc. I don't think it is necessary and conflates two things that were designed specifically to be separate.

Whether or not Star Trek can be updated is a separate question from combining of these two things. To my mind this is a solution searching for a problem.
 
The Kelvin timeline is pretty much dead (as in I doubt we'll be seeing any stories set in that universe.) So I doubt anyone in charge is worrying about trying to 'merge' the two. It seems that the KT will just be its own thing.
 
fireproof78 said:
As it should be, in my opinion.
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Those films are the reason why Trek is now back on TV. They're great, but they've served their purpose and in my opinion, it's really unnecessary to continue with them. Which is why not one of the several sequels proposed or in production for Paramount+ is a KT spinoff.
 
Dukhat said:
Those films are the reason why Trek is now back on TV. They're great, but they've served their purpose and in my opinion, it's really unnecessary to continue with them.
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In my opinion it is unnecessary to continue Trek. But, that's a debate for another day ;)

Suffice to say, the rationale for continuing Kelvin Trek is as valid as continuing other Trek; people enjoy it.
 
They could make 50 more KT films, and I'd watch all of them. But if they never made a single one ever again, it wouldn't be a huge loss because now there's so much other Star Trek on TV to watch.
 
Leaving the Kelvin timeline alone is a good thing. If they want to come back and revisit it years later it will be relatively free of canon problems, and can be handled accordingly.
 
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