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[Annorax849]

I'm giving this a like for the James Dixon line, not that I agree with the actual timeline

Question is, which time travel rules? Does the original timeline end at 2373 and get replaced by the FC timeline, as we used to see in Star Trek; or do the Kelvin timeline rules apply and both timelines continue simultaneously?

 

[BillJ]

Question is, which time travel rules? Does the original timeline end at 2373 and get replaced by the FC timeline, as we used to see in Star Trek; or do the Kelvin timeline rules apply and both timelines continue simultaneously?

I would think since Kurtzman was a co-writer on 2009 and currently running the shows, I'd go with the idea that it is a multiverse and all timelines go on.

 

[UssGlenn]

Spock will likely see Sarek in this show,

As indeed he should, according to canon. He just can't acknowledge him as his father. Amanda specifically said that the didn't speak as father and son, an unnecessary detail if they had never spoken at all.

 

[BillJ]

As indeed he should, according to canon. He just can't acknowledge him as his father. Amanda specifically said that the didn't speak as father and son, an unnecessary detail if they had never spoken at all.

I think that was just a formal Vulcan way of saying they weren't on speaking terms. How does a father and son not talk as a father and son? Even on completely unrelated subjects, I'm still talking to my father as his son.

 

[DaveyNY]

I think that was just a formal Vulcan way of saying they weren't on speaking terms. How does a father and son not talk as a father and son? Even on completely unrelated subjects, I'm still talking to my father as his son.

I believe she was indicating that the very few times Sarek & Spock did actually talk, it was completely Star Fleet related and not on a personal level.

 

[BillJ]

I believe she was indicating that the few times Sarek & Spock did actually talk, it was completely Star Fleet related and not on a personal level.

I wonder if Dorothy Fontana had anything to say on it?

 

[DaveyNY]

Amanda was very much all about Spock having and acknowledging his emotions,.
So to her, the fact that her husband and son were not communicating regularly on a familial level was dreadful.
She also obviously felt that Sarek should appreciate his son's "gift" rather than frown on it.

She knew that the animosity between them was based on this and that the disagreement over the Vulcan Academy or Star Fleet choice, was just an excuse they were both hiding behind so as not to have to deal with the real issue.

 

[UssGlenn]

I think that was just a formal Vulcan way of saying they weren't on speaking terms. How does a father and son not talk as a father and son? Even on completely unrelated subjects, I'm still talking to my father as his son.

If Sarek was to visit the ship they simply don't acknowledge they are related, even in private. They would address each other as "Ambassador Sarek" and "Lt. Spock". All interactions are purely professional.

If Spock goes home to visit his mother it's more awkward, but essentialy the same. "Please pass the salt Ambassador Sarek". I'm sure it drove Amanda nuts.

 

[valkyrie013]

I would like to see more of Amanda in the series. ( I like the actress!) She was gung ho at finding Spock in disco. i suspect they still talk.

Oh I forgot No Holograms!

 

[Yistaan]

I would like to see more of Amanda in the series. ( I like the actress!) She was gung ho at finding Spock in disco. i suspect they still talk.

Oh I forgot No Holograms!

no holographic communications is actually what number one said

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

no holographic communications is actually what number one said

We can get by with Video Calls now =D

 

[fireproof78]

Question is, which time travel rules? Does the original timeline end at 2373 and get replaced by the FC timeline, as we used to see in Star Trek; or do the Kelvin timeline rules apply and both timelines continue simultaneously?

Parallel's rules.

 

[shapeshifter]

Question is, which time travel rules? Does the original timeline end at 2373 and get replaced by the FC timeline, as we used to see in Star Trek; or do the Kelvin timeline rules apply and both timelines continue simultaneously?

For me they all continue simultaneously. Like railroad tracks, each a separate timeline running along side each other. You can be on a specific track anywhere along them in time.

 

[mswood]

If this version of M'Benga needs to be crammed into the old continuity, then, whatever his position, he obviously left the Enterprise if he is the CMO in SNW. Piper is identified as a department head in "Where No Man...", McCoy is clearly the CMO in the two episodes M'Benga appears in. It is noted in "A Private Little War" that M'Benga spent time on Vulcan, prior to when we see him in TOS.

We have to age him up a bit for SNW, as Booker Bradshaw was only 27 in TOS, but it could be simply that M'Benga wasn't interested in being a starship CMO after giving it a whirl. He returned to the Enterprise under McCoy to finish his commitment to Starfleet in 2267-68.

Yes. For whatever the reason (If CMO during SNW) he either takes a detached assignment, takes an assignment on another ship, go to Vulcan to teach for research, injured and removed from service, ect ect any number of things that can have someone leave one assignment for some period of time. When Kirk takes over Piper is initially CMO (maybe promoted within the crew, maybe brought in from Starfleet or another ship) for some reason he departs (again see any number of the reasons above and add retires), and McCoy is then assign to to be CMO. Then at some point M'Benga decides to either come back into service, or ship station school or hospital he was at is for whatever reason to longer needed, asked to be reassigned to the Enterprise. He would still have his old rank, (Lt or Lt Cmdr, or whatever) but would no longer be the CMO of the ship.

There are numerous, numerous ways for this to happen without being any issue at all. Hell take if he took reassignment to another ship. If there e was a large conflict with the loss of several ships, there might be plenty of personal with no service attachment that would then be floated throughout the fleet until such time as replacement ships were available. For all we know he might have only been on Kirk's ship for a handful of months....

It really, really isn't rocket science.

 

[Mudd]

Question is, which time travel rules? Does the original timeline end at 2373 and get replaced by the FC timeline, as we used to see in Star Trek; or do the Kelvin timeline rules apply and both timelines continue simultaneously?

There are no rules.

 

[Tim Thomason]

You know what would be neat: if they never, ever, reference La'an's family or upbringing. We learn as much about her parentage as Scotty or Pulaski.

 

[BillJ]

You know what would be neat: if they never, ever, reference La'an's family or upbringing. We learn as much about her parentage as Scotty or Pulaski.

I think you're giving the writers too much credit. They've likely already written an Eugenic/Augment/Khan story that she is key to.

 

[fireproof78]

You know what would be neat: if they never, ever, reference La'an's family or upbringing. We learn as much about her parentage as Scotty or Pulaski.

I would prefer this. Skeptical that they won't use the connection somehow though.

 

[Yistaan]

You know what would be neat: if they never, ever, reference La'an's family or upbringing. We learn as much about her parentage as Scotty or Pulaski.

Pike: Your last name sounds familiar... Hmm. Your ancestor was a World War 3 era leader wasn't he?

La'an: No, maybe you're thinking of Colonel Green. Look up figures in Earth's 1990s.

(later while Pike is at his computer)

Pike: Hmm... Jiang Zemin, Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin, Nelson Mandela, Helmut Kohl, Jacques Chirac, John Major... Just what 1990s figure is La'an related to?

(looks at the camera in confusion)

 

[Kelso]

I would prefer this. Skeptical that they won't use the connection somehow though.

Of course they'll use it. That's why they put it in there.