Trailer Reaction...authors?

[DimesDan]

I'd just like to say that I gave up on reading this thread a few pages back. I'd also like to say that I may be a rare fan, one that is not exactly worried about the changes being made as long as it's a good film and more intrigued at what is being accomplished here.

If the timeline changes, it changes, if it doesn't, then it doesn't but my money is on the former and not the latter even if it's a Stargate change like fish being in O'Neills pond when at first there wasn't.

 

[EJA]

I was thinking, if the new movie does have the Enterprise's mission to Vulcan being its "maiden voyage" then maybe, depending on how its stated, we can treat it like that line in Star Trek III about the Ent only being twenty years old....and ignore it, assume it was "badly translated". Maybe the ship has just been heavily refitted, making this the first mission of the "new" Enterprise.

 

[Timo]

Or we can accept that this is one of the things that Nero changed. Perhaps Starfleet got so worried about this new enemy that they re-evaluated the plans for their newest heavy cruiser, and then re-re-evaluated them, and the program slipped. Or perhaps one of the key proponents to funding the heavy cruisers was lost when the daughter of a key Federation Councilman died on the Kelvin and said Councilman denounced Starfleet. Or perhaps Starfleet ramped up its efforts of escalation, and produced a line of splendid warships at a hastened pace, shoving the second-rate Constitutions farther down the schedule.

It's stilll not a "Type 2 Inconsistency" that would be at odds with previous Trek. It's just a new dramatic twist in the tale as told by its newest bard.

Timo Saloniemi