Still trying to keep an open mind...

[meirwen_1988]

about the new Star Trek movie. As I said to a student, I can't begin to count the number of different "origins" versions of my favorite comic book characters I've read over the years, so why am I so protective of Star Trek.

Still, my favorite, absolute favorite episode of Star Trek is "Balance of Terror." Yeah, it's just Run Silent, Run Deep in space, but I still love it. The most important canon thing that happens in it is that, for the very first time, the Federation learns what Romulans look like.

So, I read today that in the new movie Sulu skewers a Romulan.
Frankly, unless that Romulan is wearing an encounter suit worthy of Kosh, I'm wondering how it can possibly be true that they don't know.

Don't mess with me, people--I have a White Star and I know how to use it!

Comments

[msmemory.livejournal.com]

I admit, at the end, I was kind of expecting a Superman style reboot: fly madly in the opposite direction and slingshot Time back to its original path, specifically with regard to one particular planet.

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

If anything, this is one of the few advantages mucking around with time travel has to have for this franchise - things have been screwed with so often there's no reason to think there should be complete continuity everywhere.

I particularly liked the one bit in NextGen when the time cops discover they're on the Enterprise, and just about have apoplexy because they mistake it for Kirk's Enterprise, citing the dozens of time distortion incidents he ended up having. (Perhaps at the hands of Trelane or Q, if Peter David is to be believed.)