There’s a funny story behind Lou Dobbs Canyon…

While I totally agree on the Kirk promotion issue with you, don’t think the President analogy holds since there really isn’t a training program to be President. (You can have a ton of seemingly relative experience and still suck; or have little and do a good job.)

GOD KNOWS I hate the new starship. GOD KNOWS that I find Kirk promoted to Captain in so few years to be only less probable to a “Community Organizer” in Chicago becoming the President of the United States. I hate to even admit it could happen, or that it did happen, but it did happen.

Now I would really have a problem with these characters being the “real” ones, and I think that when Spock meets that young punk in the cave and says “You are Jim Kirk!” that means that if that Spock from another time and timeline recognizes Kirk, and then Scotty, perhaps that is a canonical admission that we should, too. Nothing that we remember of the old Star Trek excapes Spock, so our Star Trek is alive with him, as both of us try to navigate the new one.

And as someone who REALLY loves Star Trek: Enterprise’s Season 4 – the least watched Star Trek series ever, no one is happier than I am to learn that THIS is canon in the new Star Trek, while TNG, DS9, and VOY are not.

GOD KNOWS I was VERY skeptical about this movie, but after having actually watched it, I admit there are MANY missing pieces … like WHY build a Starship in Iowa and not in space, and is Kirk now someone who is born in space and works in Iowa? HOW DID that canyon get in Iowa? Why does Iowa look so much like Arizona? Was the Enterprise built in Iowa out of a political decision to bribe Iowans because the Primary Caucuses begin there? And how exactly did they overcome the problems of manufacturing with gravity and the imperfections that are caused by building on a planet surface? And how did they ever get that spaceship up into orbit? Lots of questions, and I’ll have to read the book to find the answers. I know Alan Dean Foster won’t let me down – I hope.

I have read the Prequel books. There is a movie or an animated movie there if anyone chooses. Since the prequel shows that the characters are from Next Gen…..if those actors wanted “a few bucks” in their pockets…there are additional movies that can be made. Hopefully infused with the new blood this movie is bringing in. But let’s be real for a moment. Our reality. ALL the actors are getting older. TOS, TNG There is an opening there to create more with new, younger, stars. Who, at least for some, would have to be related to Piccard, Data (what?!!), Geordi and so forth. OK , just wacky ideas.

Here is how boborci explained it over at the AICN trek talkback:

TallBoy66 asked:
“I’ll take any fanboy throwaway reference as to why the tech in this timeline is so advanced compared to the original TOS timeline, and how Nero blowing up the Kelvin changed that. Any explanation that works within the confines of Nero traveling back in time would do. Thanks a lot.”

boborci replied:
“Certainly one would expect that the fleeing shuttles carrying survivors would also carry whatever telemetry was recorded by the Kelvin in its final moments ( like an airplanes BLACK BOX). Imagine the wealth of information that Starfleet was exposed to from scans of the Narada.”

If you look at series films like LoTR, Star Wars, Harry Potter, Bond, and Iron Man; you see a frequency that is managable in terms of films so that the DVD comes out 6 or more months after the movie, the TV debut is just before the movie and, what a coincidence, another movie in the theatres. As a side project (experiment) things like anime are feasible in the context of marketting (just as with the comics) but not as the major event.

I’d rather they focus on a series of good live action films that last the test of time.