"There are other instances in a few of the movies: how about 20th Century Earth in Star Trek 4? Sure, that was a time when that was expected but it was still a movie and still product placement."
Exactly. Michelob, Apple, Pacific Bell Yellow Pages,…
Without anyone to say otherwise it certainly appears to have been permanently reset.
For now pretty much, yep.
If I knew for sure that this new branch off story line was only temporary and was eventually going back to the original timeline I love…
"And Jar Jar Abrams is in touch? I don't know what he is in touch with outside of his ego and his version of Star Wars(oops) Trek. Gene Roddenberry is rolling over in his capsule!"
^^ The words of such a terribly weak argument.
So I finish off by saying that this new Star Trek was in NO WAY better than Star Trek: The Motion Picture.
Allow me to say that it IS better than TMP, in my opinion. Wow, we have a dilemma.
and the development of Kirk from the bookish, studious cadet to the adventurer he became
He still was in the new film...
I wanted the "real" characters, not some view of them from another reality.
They are all still the same characters. Kirk's ba…
"I don't mind the idea of an alternate reality, but not for the whole thing to be there. I hope they won't do that again."
The sequel is in the works with this same team, etc. This is where Star Trek will be for now on.. at least for a while.
"Perhaps the biggest moment of disbeleif I had was when Kirk, a raw cadet who wasn't been in Starfleet Academy for four years"
He said he'd do it in three. Three years later....
is given a field commision of Captain and assigned command of the Ent…
Then I guess that "red matter" that Nero had stolen from spock that he used to travel back in time was nothing afterall.
Nero only ever stole the Red Matter from him after Spock came back in time. It's intent was never to time travel.
The Red Matt…
Someone didn't watch the movie or pay a bit of attention, otherwise you would have known that Nero didn't go back in time on purpose, and in fact, had no way of going anywhere in time on his own as he was sucked back time from something that Spock d…
When I was in 8th grade, I tried applying the word 'aye' to every day life. Low and behold, my principal got a kit our of this, and I received several well deserved laughs to my face. Oh how we learn and grow, lol.