Keep on Trekkin'
Keep on Trekkin'
Aug 30So this is one of those articles where even the linky I offer is packed with SPOILERS, and to discuss the linky, I will require a jump, which will count as our SPOILER SPACE.
If you don’t want to risk having the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek flick potentially spoiled for you, then SCROLL ON.
If you’re up for it, let’s jump.
Hi, sweetie. I like your hair that way. It’s cute.
Here is the big Ain’t It Cool scoopage on Abrams Trek, which of course may or may not be true, or the full truth, or anything at all.
Given what we know about Abrams, and AICN, and the power of the internet and geeks together, I would bet that this is a seed, planted at the site to gauge fanboy reaction before a massive decision is made that will alter the course of Trek…FOREVER.
Intrigued? You damn well should be, varmint.
(I’m not saying that the seed was planted with AICN’s cooperation, although it’s possible, I guess; it just seems too easy that one of the site’s gossip mavens happened to be dining with someone who has inside info on the new Trek, who then would actually SHARE big vital info that he would then have no problem seeing all over the web. Or that Moriarty would divebomb this guy’s career by posting the info recklessly. Anyway. That’s all beside the point.)
Basically, what Moriarity posits in the article above is the answer to the big question that Trekkies are asking about Abrams Trek: How do it do the voodoo that it do? In other words, it’s got to be a reboot, but Nimoy’s in it…how does THAT work? Is Spock seated by a holofire decades after the end of the original series, telling stories to his grandkids?
Not at all. Instead, they’ve basically created an Ultimate Trek Universe.
The Ultimate Universe over at Marvel Comics, for those who don’t know, is a separate line of books where the classic Marvel characters have essentially been completely started from scratch. The classic storylines are retold; new ones are added. Changes are made. What remains the same is the core of each character and concept. Ultimate Spider-Man is still Peter Parker and he’s still Spidey and he cracks wise and worries about his Aunt May. And so on.
If Moriarty’s right, then that’s exactly what Abrams is planning for his Trek flick–a twist that allows him to start the Trek universe from scratch, but that (and this is the vital part, here) DOES NOT CHANGE OR INVALIDATE ANY OF THE TREK WE KNOW.
There are alternate timelines in the Trek canon already. This we know.
Thus, it’s easy to imagine an event involving old Spock where he acts in such a way that it creates an alternate timeline, but doesn’t change THE ORIGINAL TIMELINE.
So there’s no need to bother with the trivia and minutiae that is going to drive hardcore Trekkies nuts, and there’s no need for casual fans to take a college course in the Federation to figure out what’s happening. It’s new for everybody…
…and hopefully, it preserves the CORE. Kirk, Bones, and Spock. Boldly going.
Man, holy shit, and amen…if Abrams can pull this off…I will be SO happy. Because it’s a solution that no one has any right or reason to dislike, and it gives everyone what they wants.
Absolute simple genius.
