EXCLUSIVE: Bob Orci Explains How The New Star Trek Movie Fits With Trek Canon (and real Science) (flag)

trekmovie.com — If there is one topic that seems to come up quite a bit with Trek fans regarding the new Star Trek movie, it is the subject of the Star Trek continuity (or canon). It has been the contention of the film makers that despite how some things may appear to be rewriting Trek’s history, the [...]

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Trek Time Travel Explained! Plus Piccolo Looking Greener! [Morning Spoilers]
io9 — ... surmised, the new movie takes place in a new timeline, for James Kirk at least, because the Romulan Nero goes back in time and kills Kirk's parents on board the USS Kelvin. But Kirk still ends up on the Enterprise, because the universe is trying to hold itself together. Orci has clearly thought very carefully about how time travel works in the Trek universe: it creates new timelines, and you won't wink out of existence if you kill your own grandparents before they procreate. [TrekMovie] ...

Everything In Star Trek Is Canon Fodder [Star Trek]
io9 — ... creating a straight-ahead reboot, a la Battlestar Galactica or the Batman movies (Orci goes on to explain that the new movie's Enterprise crew exists in an alternate timeline to the original series, due to the time traveling, meaning that there's no kind of "Well, everything can go back to the ways of Shatner" at stake). Are Trek fans that married to the continuity instead of the characters and/or concept that that's the only way that they'd accept a revamp? Bob Orci Explains How The New Star Trek Movie Fits With Trek Canon (and Real Science) ...

Daily Scan for 12.16.08 - Trek's Time Travel Revealed, Branagh's Thor Confirmed
SciFi Scanner — ... • TrekMovie "spoils" the time travel plot in J.J. Abrams' Star Trek, which ends up being exactly what everyone had assumed all along. ...

Soul of Star Trek — ... Over at Trekmovie, Anthony Pascale has gotten new Trek movie writer Roberto Orci to admit that the forthcoming feature essentially takes place in an alternate Trek universe. (Their conversation is here, and a diligent follow-up post ...