For those who missed it yesterday:
To translate this into drama parlance, it basically means the Kelvin timeline is a full reboot - explaining every inconsistency. Because it would mean that this possibility has been running differently since the big bang. Although it is a mirror universe, for all intents and purposes, they are beholden to nothing from the original universe - explaining Chekov's age, the size of ships, Khan's ethnic features, etc.
"With the Kelvin timeline, we are not entirely beholden to existing canon, this is an alternate reality and, as such is full of new and alternate possibilities. “BUT WAIT!” I hear you brilliant and beautiful super Trekkies cry, “Canon tells us, Hikaru Sulu was born before the Kelvin incident, so how could his fundamental humanity be altered? Well, the explanation comes down to something very Star Treky; theoretical, quantum physics and the less than simple fact that time is not linear."
"Sure, we experience time as a contiguous series of cascading events but perception and reality aren’t always the same thing. Spock’s incursion from the Prime Universe created a multidimensional reality shift. The rift in space/time created an entirely new reality in all directions, top to bottom, from the Big Bang to the end of everything. As such this reality was, is and always will be subtly different from the Prime Universe. I don’t believe for one second that Gene Roddenberry wouldn’t have loved the idea of an alternate reality (Mirror, Mirror anyone?)."
"This means, and this is absolutely key, the Kelvin universe can evolve and change in ways that don’t necessarily have to follow the Prime Universe at any point in history, before or after the events of Star Trek ‘09, it can mutate and subvert, it is a playground for the new and the progressive and I know in my heart, that Gene Roddenberry would be proud of us for keeping his ideals alive. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, this was his dream, that is our dream, it should be everybody’s."
To simplify, this seems to suggest that prime Spock arrived via time travel in a different quantum possibility of the Star Trek universe. If there exists a different quantum possibility for every different probability that has ever existed, Nero and Spock didn't arrive at a time earlier in their own timelines, but rather entered one of these alternate quantum probabilities."Sure, we experience time as a contiguous series of cascading events but perception and reality aren’t always the same thing. Spock’s incursion from the Prime Universe created a multidimensional reality shift. The rift in space/time created an entirely new reality in all directions, top to bottom, from the Big Bang to the end of everything. As such this reality was, is and always will be subtly different from the Prime Universe. I don’t believe for one second that Gene Roddenberry wouldn’t have loved the idea of an alternate reality (Mirror, Mirror anyone?)."
"This means, and this is absolutely key, the Kelvin universe can evolve and change in ways that don’t necessarily have to follow the Prime Universe at any point in history, before or after the events of Star Trek ‘09, it can mutate and subvert, it is a playground for the new and the progressive and I know in my heart, that Gene Roddenberry would be proud of us for keeping his ideals alive. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, this was his dream, that is our dream, it should be everybody’s."
To translate this into drama parlance, it basically means the Kelvin timeline is a full reboot - explaining every inconsistency. Because it would mean that this possibility has been running differently since the big bang. Although it is a mirror universe, for all intents and purposes, they are beholden to nothing from the original universe - explaining Chekov's age, the size of ships, Khan's ethnic features, etc.
