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

[meirwen.livejournal.com]

Except that there is all that dialog about the previous encounter with Romulans being entirely ship to ship, before ship to ship visuals were possible. ;-)

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

Yup, that doesn't necessarily strike me as inconsistent. Suppose the plan is that Kirk, Spock, Sulu, and McCoy are keeping the secret because they're afraid the general reaction will be what Stiles in fact does. Now the idea is, since with improved technology the secret is about to come out anyway, it's best if Spock reveals it, since that will give some credence to the idea that the Vulcans and Romulans are not in cahoots.

It's a stretch, but I think you can make it fit if you want to. And really, there is enough screwing around with the time continuum in the trek universe that there's always the easy out of some patching of the original time-line wasn't quite complete to fall back on. :)