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.