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New Star Trek Movie Directors Talk Darker Tone, “Sort Of Different” Timeline (trekmovie.com)
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Clear as mud, where the timeline thing is concerned.

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[–] 9 points 1 week ago (7 children)

TrekMovie playing the clickbait game with the best of 'em.

No legacy characters, nobody that you’ve met before. A different time, not a different timeline per se, but it’s a little further in the future.

I don't actually think this is very ambiguous?

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  • [–] 6 points 1 week ago

    TrekMovie playing the clickbait game with the best of 'em.

    The guys being interviewed didn't even say they wanted to make a darker Trek, just that the story they're working on is darker than what they've done before, for whatever value that has.

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  • [–] [S] 6 points 1 week ago* (4 children)

    I think whether or not the writers know what the word "timeline" means is the ambiguous part.

    Edit/P.S.: Especially in a SF context where they're not being clear if "timeline" means "somewhere else on the established timeline" or "a new alternate one". Especially if they're going to also name drop the Kelvin timeline in the same breath.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    Especially in a SF context where they’re not being clear if “timeline” means “somewhere else on the established timeline” or “a new alternate one”.

    Unfortunately, I think that ship hath sailed. The word is used to mean both things fairly interchangeably, by fans and professionals alike.

    In this context, I'm pretty comfortable assuming that they're looking at a new era within the regular ol' Prime Universe.

    Bookmark this now so you can make fun of me later!

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 1 week ago* (2 children)

    Actually I completely agree with your assumption. It's just the way they can't seem to express themselves clearly about it that's getting under my skin. And if they just would do that, it might slow down the billion clickbait "Paramount is rebooting Star Trek" stories out there.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    I do wonder if they're dancing around NDAs and junk like that, too - writers really don't like to talk about stuff in the early stages.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago*

    Yeah, they only said it’s “sort of a different timeline” in reference to the Kelvin films. Fact is, for a good portion of the movie going public the prime timeline is a different timeline than the one they’re used to.

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