10I’m going to put this thought out there for y’all to consider (if you haven’t already)…
I don’t believe the Reboot universe was “altered” when Nero destroyed the Kelvin and Kirk’s father. According to this timeline, that is the point at which the universes split… but you see, how does that even make sense when the canon of the ‘verse itself has differences before Nero came through the black hole? Some of those big differences are written into the comics themselves. Just as an example, I’ll mention McCoy wasn’t a Georgia boy. He grew up in Mississippi. Because Leonard is older than Jim, that signifies something slightly “altered” before Jim’s birth.
IDK.
I guess the timeline bothered me in that it shows events forking out from that Nero Thing. You see, I would have draw the main stem of the fork as two timelines intertwined rather than perfectly synchronous. That’s what alternate universes are: like, but not like.
I’m no Stephen Hawking but that makes senses to me!
…Although now I have to wonder if split universes are literally the kind where timelines do diverge at a significant event, and how that’s not quite the same as an alternate universe. o.O And I think we’ve all seen (or written) in fics AUs that are close to the original or really far out there.
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There’s also the fact that Jim was born in space, when in TOS he was born in Riverside. Because while it would be believable that Nero’s ship caused Winona to go into early labor, they wrote it so he was born on the same day as in TOS. So something must have happened before Nero that altered the timeline… …OR JJ sucks even more than we thought and wasn’t paying attention/ignored canon to get that heartbreaking opening scene….>.>
They don’t have the same birthday, though. TOS Kirk was born in March, and Reboot Kirk was born January 4th, which would have made him pretty early.
Really? I could’ve sworn…ah, well, ignore me, then…*coughcough*
LOL! Don’t mind me. These are the types of useless facts clogging up my brain and keeping me from remembering, say, the combination for my gym locker and other helpful stuff.
I’m going with the second option. I don’t think JJ gave too much credence to the TOS facts… Look at what happened to Chapel!
It’s basically single point divergent alternate universes and multi point divergent alternate universes. The reboot was probably originally supposed to be the former but ended up being the latter.
I think you nailed it here. But the question remains… why are the creators still insisting it’s single-point divergent? Are we not supposed to know the difference?
Maybe they don’t acknowledge the differences? Or don’t know of them? Or are stubborn? People hate being wrong, especially when others keep shaming them for their mistakes. Too many possibilities.
My theory is that they were alternate-but-similar universes, meaning there were small differences in them already, but nothing so significant that you wouldn’t recognize them if you hopped back and forth. Until Nero, that is, because he came over and caused an enormous difference by taking Vulcan out of the equation. So, going forward, there’s no way of knowing how many more really major differences will occur thanks to that event. It was more a tidal wave than a ripple… Anyway, that’s how my brain deals with reboot issues. :)
That makes a lot of sense. There were tiny things (multi-point divergent like dark_kaomi said, if small in divergence) but the BIG thing happened and now there’s no denying how different the universes are. Sometimes I still can’t get over the fact that Vulcan is gone, though. I wonder how the person to take over Abrams’ job in the next movie will handle those “major differences” to come.