To restore the prime universe timeline, the Narada, like the Enterprise C need to go back...

[Doom Shepherd]

If you're twelve or under and your pet dies, you throw a fit and mope because "everything is RUINED FOREVER" and nothing can EVER be as good as that pet.
If you're over twelve, you accept that death is a natural part of life, grow up, realize that your pets are what YOU make of them, and that endlessly obsessing over your lost pet is in NO WAY HEALTHY, and move on.

BTW, Pluto isn't going to go back to being a planet either.

 

[Jedi_Master]

When did Star Trek "die"?

I must have missed it.

 

[Oso Blanco]

If you're twelve or under and your pet dies, you throw a fit and mope because "everything is RUINED FOREVER" and nothing can EVER be as good as that pet.
If you're over twelve, you accept that death is a natural part of life, grow up, realize that your pets are what YOU make of them, and that endlessly obsessing over your lost pet is in NO WAY HEALTHY, and move on.

It's only a metaphor ... you don't need to take that pet thing literally. Replace "pet" with "kid", are you getting my point now?

When did Star Trek "die"?

If you had read the previous posts, you'd know that I was talking about the Prime Timeline. Which was declared dead by some posters here.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

It's only a metaphor ... you don't need to take that pet thing literally. Replace "pet" with "kid", are you getting my point now?

I understand it was a metaphor. I have a BA in Creative Writing. I simply extended it to demonstrate how ridiculous it was.
Star Trek is not your baby, and your attempts to reinforce your point are only demolishing it instead.

 

[Oso Blanco]

Star Trek is not your baby

Didn't you just say you knew what a metaphor was?

 

[JeffinOakland]

Its not a pet or a child. Its a fantasy franchise. It's make believe. The comparison is insulting to people who have suffered real, traumatic losses.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Of course you could get a new pet and start all over again, but it will never be the same!

Infinite diversity, infinite combinations. Old dog, new tricks.

 

[Jedi_Master]

Star Trek lives. Plain and simple. A fan may not like some elements of the various products currently being released, but Star Trek is not dead, and neither is some fan created notion of a "Prime" timeline.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Pluto isn't going to go back to being a planet either.

The Borg ate it. Ask Peter David.

 

[Oso Blanco]

Infinite diversity, infinite combinations. Old dog, new tricks.

That much is true ... and I never said I didn't like the new movies per se. But I miss the Prime Universe and I'd love to know what happened after Romulus blew up.

 

[Trekkin]

Replace "pet" with "kid", are you getting my point now?

I sure as fuck would hope that you wouldn't spend the rest of your life 'betting good money' that your child is going to come back to life any day now.

And no - implying that a parents attachment to their dead child is comparable to your affection for an ongoing entertainment franchise (just not 'ongoing' in a form you like), makes the attempted analogy even worse.

The Borg ate it. Ask Peter David.

That hunk of ice and rock was asking for it.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

Didn't you just say you knew what a metaphor was?

Yes. You just make increasingly terrible ones. Do not quit your day job to become a writer.

 

[Therin of Andor]

That much is true ... and I never said I didn't like the new movies per se. But I miss the Prime Universe and I'd love to know what happened after Romulus blew up.

That's what the Pocket novels are for. Charging towards the date when Romulus goes kablooey!

 

[Oso Blanco]

implying that a parents attachment to their dead child is comparable

I was just trying to get my point across ... I know that those two things are in no way comparable!

 

[asupackman]

Its not a pet or a child. Its a fantasy franchise. It's make believe. The comparison is insulting to people who have suffered real, traumatic losses.

Whoa Whoa Whoa, lets slow down a minute! Now I know there have been some hot tempers and some testy words, but lets not insult the source material and call it FANTASY! This is pure science fiction! Lets get it right! What do you think this is? Star Wars?!?!

 

[JeffinOakland]

Whoa Whoa Whoa, lets slow down a minute! Now I know there have been some hot tempers and some testy words, but lets not insult the source material and call it FANTASY! This is pure science fiction! Lets get it right! What do you think this

Perish the thought. I stand corrected. Of course Warp Speed is based on real, observable science and Hyperspace is just an adult - child's fantasy.

 

[Jedi_Master]

That's what the Pocket novels are for. Charging towards the date when Romulus goes kablooey!

To Kablooey! And beyond!

 

[Therin of Andor]

To Kablooey! And beyond!

#GoBeyond #GoKablooey

 

[Kor]

For me, the prime universe died in the eighties, since the only Trek in that universe that I really give a crap about anymore is TOS and some of the TOS movies.

Onward with JJTrek/Kelvin timeline/NuTrek/whatever it's called!

Kor

 

[Tenacity]

The Kelvin timeline is now the main event.

There was a time that I thought that Roger Moore was a great James Bond, in time the brief existence of the Abrams-universe will be a delightful piece if Trekkie trivia.