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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
Debunking the "infinite timelines" theory:
When it was pointed out that "Yesterday's Enterprise" and "City on the Edge of Forever" rule out this "infinite timelines" theory, Bob Orci, co-writer of the current movie admitted that it flies in the face of past Trek thoughts on time travel. In most of Trek it goes by "Back to the Future" or "Terminator" rules - there is one prime timeline and if you go back and change the past, it changes the future prime timeline. Except maybe TNG's "Parallels" which was mentioned previously.
Orci claims that his version of time travel is correct, the past episodes were wrong except Parallels, the old timeline is still going concurrently with this new timeline and that you will still be able to find TOS, TNG, DS9 DVDs at your favorite entertainment media stores.
Orci also claims that the majority of the audience don't care about whether there is one prime timeline or not. He says that 99% of those that go to the movie believe that they *are* operating under the traditional "one prime timeline" and *just don't care* that it wiped out TOS and most that came after.
I dunno. At the end of the Bob Newhart show I thought it was kinda funny for it all to have been a crazy dream. This time the "it all never really happened" leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
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And again, that is a secondary criticism of the movie. My primary criticism is that Roddenberry created Star Trek as a medium for sharing ideas and getting people talking about issues. I mean, just the racial make-up of the crew was ground breaking. This movie was about dumbing things down to "make things go boom".
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You honestly can't take a step back and put it in perspective?
It was 125 minutes. It's purpose was to be a new movie that would excite new audiences.
We aren't talking about actual physics. This movie, and it's alternate time line has not erased or altered any DVD's you might have.
If you look back at the very best of the Star Trek movies, the purpose was to entertain wide audiences in a movie theatre setting. It's why Wrath of Khan was so good, the Search for Spock, First Contact etc.
This was clearly a character study to re-introduce the like-able qualities of the original characters to new audiences surrounded by an exciting action packed story.
I think you need to look at it for what it was. An action packed sci fi movies that was meant to re-energize the series to a new audience. The glowing wide reviews and record breaking opening weekend show that was accomplished.
If anything, it invites new fans to revisit the previous series and movies, which by the way, (as another reminder) remain completely unaffected by this new movie.