tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814789807187876194.post8673002653909099065..comments2023-09-27T13:35:17.891-07:00Comments on Mind Vomit and Brain Farts: Star Trek: Everything You Know Is WrongGianavelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08353515461806553756noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814789807187876194.post-17540063769844271672009-07-17T08:37:30.279-07:002009-07-17T08:37:30.279-07:00Well, it depends how you view the ramifications of...Well, it depends how you view the ramifications of time travel and the existence of parallel universes regardless of time travel.<br /><br />One theory is that every choice and every event produces a parallel universe in which the choice or event occurred differently. So every second of our lives is producing yet more and more infinite parallel universes. Therefore, not only do the other Star Trek series exist, they exist in an infinite number of variations. This movie is just one parallel universe we've been allowed to see.<br /><br />Or, if you believe that time is like a VHS tape, and if you rewind and retape, you'll erase all that comes later, the other franchises will not have happened. But, there's a logical hole I guess. If the universe operates by logic, Spock cannot return to the past and create an event IF young Spock never grows up to do exactly the same thing. Old Spock cannot exist if he makes it impossible for Young Spock to become the exact same Old Spock. So, perhaps the parallel dimension theory is workable. Old Spock exists in this new time line / parallel universe because somewhere in the universe his time line / universe still exists and continues to exist.<br /><br />Then again, we can throw all of these theories out the window because Star Trek is full of crazy impossible nonsense.ZedWordhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09350866895880672235noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2814789807187876194.post-83941307344961293902009-05-22T10:05:33.626-07:002009-05-22T10:05:33.626-07:00Simon Pegg's Scotty doesn't sound like Doohan's be...Simon Pegg's Scotty doesn't sound like Doohan's because Pegg's is actually closer to a real Scottish accent, whereas Doohan's was very, very fake (and offensive to Scottish people, from what I have heard from at least four different friends of mine who are from Scotland).<br /><br />Also, I feel you're incorrect about the "none of that happened" bit. They clearly even said in the movie that Spock going back in time created an alternate reality. I believe they should have used the term "parallel universe" to better explain it. It's not that none of anything we've seen in Trek has happened or is erased from existance by this movie--instead, all of that has happened, but what happens in the movie moves the characters into a new and different timeline that is parallel to the original universe; running along the same course, but in a slightly different direction. And as for the rest of your rant after that, well, that's what exploring a parallel universe is all about. Asking and answering "what if?" questions, creating interesting stories, seeing what's different from the cannon we know and love and what's the same. The script writers were huge Trek fans, after all. I don't think it's that they didn't think it through--I think that it's that you're overthinking it.Marronhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08184765318056683747noreply@blogger.com