Star Trek XI - Quick Thoughts

[dewline]

Originally submitted to the Ottawa SF Society Statement for publication:

Sandi, you asked for my opinion after our expedition to Silver City
Gloucester this morning to see the new movie.

I can sum it up efficiently enough as follows:

Same multiverse, different timeline. Well worth the time to see it. Definitely.

Still planning to keep reading the novels playing off of the Original
Series (Plural) in any case. Because they're well worth my time, too.
And if DC Comics can juggle fifty-two universes in their continuity
right now, why can't Star Trek manage to keep playing with at least
three?

I'll save my detail-specific nitpicks for a separate essay.

Comments

[querldox.livejournal.com]

Hmm. So you're pointing out that Trek now has Earth-2 (Golden Age/Classic), Earth-3 (Mirror Universe), and Earth-1 (new movie)?

If I recall the order in which formally named/numbered Earths were introduced in the DC multiverse, next up is Trek-Nazi...oh, wait, they did that one too sorta. : -)

So next after that would be Earth-S...which I guess would be the animated series.

[dewline.livejournal.com]

Precisely the spirit I had in mind!

New toys alongside - not replacing - the old.

[wyldemusick.livejournal.com]

I like alternate timeline stuff anyway, but I think this was a clever way to go about it, especially with the absence of a reset button, and sufficient time indicated between the key divergence event and the main story.

I'm not surprised at the number of hardline Trekfen who are up in arms about the movie, though. Lots of screeching about how "the abomination!" does away with canon, continuity, character, creativity, the sheer godly wonder of all that is Star Trek, etc etc etc.

No it doesn't. All still right there, much of it as cruddy as it was the day it hit the airwaves or whatever. It's just a new timeline where certain events now can't happen, others have been happening, and the people running things can either tell new variants of old stories, or entirely new stories. There may never be a Voyager, or an Enterprise-D, or whatever (although I'm amused to note that ENTERPRISE continuity remains untroubled. That should make the fans happy...!)

I find myself liking Michael Giacchino's score, too. Another point in favor of going to see the film....

[dewline.livejournal.com]

I expect that "NewTrekVerse" will be telling a mix of variants of old tales and new-cloth tales as time goes on.

As for Enterprise being left untouched, I wonder about that, given some of the stuff Mike Sussman wrote for Archer and Sato's futures as part of the incidental background art in that series' Mirror Universe episodes.

[norda.livejournal.com]

I can accept it as a different timeline in a multiverse.