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Sunday, May 17, 2009

Future Spock and What He Knows

This is Steven Petrick Posting.

By now, most of you have seen the new Star Trek Movie. It is a fun ride, but not something that can handle a lot of consideration of all the changes it makes.

One of the biggest is that apparently "history diverged" BEFORE the Kelvin was destroyed.

How do we know this? Because it was known that the Romulans were an off shoot of the Vulcans and Uhura, by gosh, knew all three of the Romulan dialects. For any of that to be true, the Federation had to know about the Romulans for a while.

So the historical diversion we are looking at pre-dates the Kelvin's destruction.

Even though we know about that diversion, we have serious problems because of "Classic Spock" (as opposed to "New Spock").

Is there still a vampire gas cloud out there? Is Classic Spock going to warn the Federation to go use an anti-matter bomb blood trap to destroy it?

Is there still a Doomsday Machine heading towards Federation Space? Is Classic Spock going to warn the Federation to drop a starship with its engines on overload into its maw to destroy it?

Is Classic Spock going to warn them not to mess with "The Guardian of Forever"?

Is Classic Spock going to warn the Federation not to mess with Gary 7?

Is Classic Spock going to warn the Enterprise to avoid the black hole that sends it into the past and results in the download of computer files to an Air Force Base that is the basis for Star Fleet Battles? It would make sense to do so (and avoid all of the strangeness that occurred). But if he does then Amarillo Design Bureau would not exi . . .