Seen Star Trek

[ec1st]

I have seen the new Trek once. If my memory is working ok, there are a few loose ends that do not fit smoothly into the established Star Trek Chronology (as subtitled on the large paperback book: The History Of The Future).

Vulcan has been destroyed. It's survivors are establishing a 'colony' elsewhere.

Spock's mother Amanda is dead. There is no tension between Sarak and Spock - they actually talk to each other. It seems that aged Ambassador Spock is still alive in his past. Young Spock struggles openly with his emotional half, and privately allows himself a bit of romance.

The ship is different. What most struck me is that the engines do not look like the first generation Enterprise starship. And the transporter effects are different.

We now know that Romulus will be destroyed in several hundred years when it's host star goes nova. Ambassador Spock will be, or already is (?) trapped in a time loop.

Since the introduction of The Next Generation all new Star Trek shows have tried to fit into the established Trek universe. Maybe I am the last person to realize this, but I believe the Trek producers have scrapped everything that has been done before. If no new plot device snaps everything back the way it was, the old history of the future is no more. Trek is reborn with a clean slate and nobody knows nuthin' about which heroes and villains and technologies will shape the new stories. Hold on to your wallets. Resistance may be futile...