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<blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 7610967" data-attributes="member: 177"><p>The events of ST: Into Darkness contain some evidence that this is, in fact, the case - Khan has access to technology that does not work in the prime timeline, even in the Voyager era - transporter action across interstellar distances. Khan couldn't produce that in the Prime timeline, nor could the Klingons. Nero, who is from the Prime timeline, didn't have that tech. So, where did this come from?</p><p></p><p>The best answer may be that this is not so much new timeline as a different universe, with different tech pathway, and they just happens to pop into it from the black hole at the points they did. </p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>No, you misunderstand - as you yourself noted - in typical Trek time travel, the prime timeline now *no longer exists*. How things played out in the original timeline is irrelevant. We are not considering how things play out in the Kelvine timeline. In the Kelvin timeline, Nero travels back in time. </p><p></p><p>Except, in the Kelvin Timeline, there may be no need, or even no possibility, for Nero to travel back in time. PARADOX! </p><p></p><p>Trek has generally avoided outright paradoxes in its time travel. We don't know how they'll resolve this one. That resolution may lead to an answer to what's going on in Picard's show.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This isn't "self-correcting" so much as noting that, for purposes of what makes Picard's show happen... the changes may not matter.</p><p></p><p>Yes, Kirk dies instead of Spock. But, just like before, we get the dead one back anyway. No net change. And so, the Enterprise gets to be NCC-1701-A a bit earlier -that's a name. Big whoop. Kirk and Spock and McCoy and Scotty can still go gallivanting around the galaxy, like before. No big deal. They are still around to get whales in Trek 4, for example.</p><p></p><p>What changes happen that would make it so that Picard never makes it to the captain's chair? I can't think of any that do so clearly.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Umbran, post: 7610967, member: 177"] The events of ST: Into Darkness contain some evidence that this is, in fact, the case - Khan has access to technology that does not work in the prime timeline, even in the Voyager era - transporter action across interstellar distances. Khan couldn't produce that in the Prime timeline, nor could the Klingons. Nero, who is from the Prime timeline, didn't have that tech. So, where did this come from? The best answer may be that this is not so much new timeline as a different universe, with different tech pathway, and they just happens to pop into it from the black hole at the points they did. No, you misunderstand - as you yourself noted - in typical Trek time travel, the prime timeline now *no longer exists*. How things played out in the original timeline is irrelevant. We are not considering how things play out in the Kelvine timeline. In the Kelvin timeline, Nero travels back in time. Except, in the Kelvin Timeline, there may be no need, or even no possibility, for Nero to travel back in time. PARADOX! Trek has generally avoided outright paradoxes in its time travel. We don't know how they'll resolve this one. That resolution may lead to an answer to what's going on in Picard's show. This isn't "self-correcting" so much as noting that, for purposes of what makes Picard's show happen... the changes may not matter. Yes, Kirk dies instead of Spock. But, just like before, we get the dead one back anyway. No net change. And so, the Enterprise gets to be NCC-1701-A a bit earlier -that's a name. Big whoop. Kirk and Spock and McCoy and Scotty can still go gallivanting around the galaxy, like before. No big deal. They are still around to get whales in Trek 4, for example. What changes happen that would make it so that Picard never makes it to the captain's chair? I can't think of any that do so clearly. [/QUOTE]
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