Even after what I said, that’s just weak writing. Or maybe just wishful thinking on their part.
They (“they” meaning Alex Kurtzman & Akiva Goldsman) keep pushing that and other major events back because they want our timeline to be the Star Trek timeline. It is not, it was never suppose to be. (A crying shame, but I digress.) Star Trek’s timeline deviated from real life back in the 1970s. Which means all potential timelines that forked from it also deviated.
I worry they’ll keep pushing things back until they no longer means anything to that timeline’s lore. shrug
I’m in favour of the sliding timeline. Star Trek was always supposed to be about our future, and I personality prefer that it stay that way.
But the SNW explanation makes no sense. A massive global conflict can just be postponed for forty years and that change has no significant downstream effects? Ridiculous.
I prefer how they handled it in the DS9 and Voyager. Just quietly retcon when the eugenics wars happened and try not to call attention to it.
Honestly, TOS had the right ideas when they first gave us a stardate instead of a year. It’s the far future, that’s all we needed to know. Perfect solution if they had only stuck to it.
Even after what I said, that’s just weak writing. Or maybe just wishful thinking on their part.
They (“they” meaning Alex Kurtzman & Akiva Goldsman) keep pushing that and other major events back because they want our timeline to be the Star Trek timeline. It is not, it was never suppose to be. (A crying shame, but I digress.) Star Trek’s timeline deviated from real life back in the 1970s. Which means all potential timelines that forked from it also deviated.
I worry they’ll keep pushing things back until they no longer means anything to that timeline’s lore. shrug
I’m in favour of the sliding timeline. Star Trek was always supposed to be about our future, and I personality prefer that it stay that way.
But the SNW explanation makes no sense. A massive global conflict can just be postponed for forty years and that change has no significant downstream effects? Ridiculous.
I prefer how they handled it in the DS9 and Voyager. Just quietly retcon when the eugenics wars happened and try not to call attention to it.
Honestly, TOS had the right ideas when they first gave us a stardate instead of a year. It’s the far future, that’s all we needed to know. Perfect solution if they had only stuck to it.