Something about Star Trek and timeline/time travel stuff...

[kane_magus]

Allow me to put on my super-nerd/geek hat for a moment here. I hear a lot of people saying that the timeline for the Star Trek reboot is pretty much the same as the timeline for Star Trek Prime prior to the 2009 movie. That is, things shouldn't be any different prior to the moment that Nero first appeared and started messing things up. But here's the thing: in Star Trek Prime, Kirk and company go back in* time on several occasions to points well before that. So I'm just wondering how all of this has been affected or changed in the new reboot universe. Will reboot Kirk go back to these time periods at some point, or does the reboot universe simply have Kirk Prime going back to those time periods already baked into it somehow, or something else entirely? I'm sure none of this will ever be dealt with, of course, but it's still something interesting to ponder, at least for me anyway.

Yeah, yeah, I know, parallel universes and all that, but still, if people are going to be saying that the reboot universe was exactly the same as the Prime universe prior to the events of the reboot movie, this kind of muddles the waters on that a bit.

* - And if you follow the Star Trek expanded universe stuff at all, Gary Seven played a direct role in all the Khan stuff from the 20th-21st century, so who knows how all of that was affected by Kirk not going back in time (or if his going back in time happens a different way in the reboot universe) during Gary Seven's introduction.

Comments

[rabbitucker.livejournal.com]

But there's no way it could have been identical timelines. Wasn't Kirk Prime supposed to be born in Iowa? Here, he was being born in space!

It doesn't bug me, though. Being a Marvel Universe fan, I can dig all manner of multiverses. (Their main continuity is still numbered as high as universe 616!) So I can dig Nu-Trek as some sort of "Ultimate Star Trek."