Star Trek Week: Day 3 – Star Trek lover Stew joins us today to talk about the Star Trek Timeline and how it all works, the newest Star Trek movie that spawned this great quote, “The new Star Trek movie is a prequel and a sequel and a reboot.”
We also find out about Stewarts love for Deanna Troi and Clint Howard. Make sure to visit his site for more information of hit him up on The Twitter.
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Maybe I should just listen to the podcast, as it might be discussed there. But that diagram got me thinking… if the Borg did create a new skewed timeline in ST:FC, wouldn’t the events of ST:IN and ST:NEM occur on the skewed timeline and not on the prime, since the Enterprise-E crew made it back to their proper time? And Nero and Spock’s travel would have made a second skew into the first skew. Remember Doc Brown’s explanation to Marty in BTTF2 on why they couldn’t travel back to 2015 to stop Biff from stealing the time machine? Biff had altered events in 1955, so traveling forward was moot; they were already on a skewed (and hellish) timeline in 1985. They had to travel back to 1955 to stop the event that Biff triggered that skewed the “happy” timeline from the end of BTTF1. Of course, I am assuming that each interference causes a skew in the first place, and also I’m assuming that the Enterprise E’s crew helping Z. Cochrane achieve warp drive in ST:FC didn’t occur in the prime timeline anyway, as the diagram implies. Maybe, through this whole discussion, I’ve only proved that I’m the target audience for this podcast.