Vulcan still exists in the prime universe.

Also, the Mirror Vulcan still exists. (Either in the original Mirror Universe or the alternate reality version of the Mirror Universe. Nero could not have destroyed Vulcan in any mirror universe, since that would be against a mirror Nero’s nature, which presumably would be good.)}

IMO, the AOS Amanda still exists, somewhere, but currently is an energy pattern. She was in mid-beam when the Enterprise lost her signature, her energy pattern was sucked into the black hole with the planet Vulcan (which is now broken up). So, there’s no reason that wherever or whenever that black hole comes out to Amanda’s signature pattern could not be picked up by a transporter and beamed somewhere safe (a ship, a station, a planet, etc). Same for any Vulcans who may have been mid-beam when their signatures were lost. Based on what the movie showed us, somewhere these energy patterns and the debris of the planet Vulcan showed up. We just don’t know where or when. Granted, it would be one heck of a coincidence that a transporter would happen to find her signature pattern….however this movie is nothing BUT unlikely coincidences. So, if they wanted to do it, the writers could return her to the AOS timeline as in Mirror, Mirror.

I think you may have missed one or two interviews. He dismissed it as a mistake. I heard it with my own two ears.

Assuming you don’t take my word for it, the point remains that even good writers can create bad material—especially when you include material that never even makes it into production.

” And Orci’s endorsement of that script is proof that he’s not only a writer of questionable talent, but he’s ready and willing to betray the heart and soul of an iconic property just to sate his buddies’ egos.”

That’s absurd.

And while I’m not sure how any of that “betrays the heart and soul of an iconic property”, I’m even more perplexed by the notion that a writer not displaying as much reverance for an old comic book story indicates “questionable talent”.

The fact that you, I, and any number of fans might disagree with a creative choice says nothing of an individual writer’s “talent”.

You’re kidding around about those NASA/JPL “realizations” and “evidence” that the stars and universe aren’t as far away and old as previously thought, right?

A team of astronomers is attempting to image the black hole thought to be at the center of our galaxy, Sagitarius A, with a global array of radio telescopes, and may have that image within a couple of years.

Actually we shortened it to Ballz after arriving on these shores…..it’s originally Ballzdeep, but we thought that sounded too ethnic!