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Yeah, my simplified headcanon explanation is that the Kelvin universe was always there, and Spock and Nero happened to tunnel into it.

If you want to add the wrinkle that the red matter implosion somehow created it (which the original film seems to suggest)...well, it's more complicated, but it works, too.

Oh make no mistake, I'm on record as not really caring whether we ever see another theatrical Star Trek film. In my opinion, it's a TV franchise at its core, and it can stay there as far as I'm concerned.

But I'm pretty sick of the tedius "will they/won't they" shenanigans at Paramount.

I never pass up on an opportunity to share Simon Pegg's thoughts on the matter - he wrote one of the films, so I think his opinion should carry some weight:

Sure, we experience time as a contiguous series of cascading events but perception and reality aren’t always the same thing. Spock’s incursion from the Prime Universe created a multidimensional reality shift. The rift in space/time created an entirely new reality in all directions, top to bottom, from the Big Bang to the end of everything. As such this reality was, is and always will be subtly different from the Prime Universe. I don’t believe for one second that Gene Roddenberry wouldn’t have loved the idea of an alternate reality (Mirror, Mirror anyone?).

This means, and this is absolutely key, the Kelvin universe can evolve and change in ways that don’t necessarily have to follow the Prime Universe at any point in history, before or after the events of Star Trek ‘09, it can mutate and subvert, it is a playground for the new and the progressive and I know in my heart, that Gene Roddenberry would be proud of us for keeping his ideals alive. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, this was his dream, that is our dream, it should be everybody’s.

The strategy on the film side of things remains an incoherent mess, and I think we should all take this with a massive grain of salt as long as phrases like, "is in talks to," are being thrown around.

But sure, okay. At this point, I'll take any progress over no progress.

For some reason, TrekCore has many more stills than TrekMovie.

Good to see President Rillak out of hiding...

Yeah, it's hard to speak in defense of their comms over the past few years.

I've never had an overly bad impression of Bakish, though - at the very least, he didn't make a total ass of himself during the strikes, and seems better than, say, Zaslav over at Warner.

But as always, there are no true "good guys" at this level.

the Klingon(?) lady

Efrosian, apparently!

At this point, I want whatever's going to happen to happen already...

Clicked for the Klingon/Andorian hockey game, was not disappointed.

Turns out holographic facsimiles of people you know get bored, too.

Captain Picard falls asleep; dreams of some dead people.

The Breen might have the ability to destroy the Archive, but with Discovery gone, it wouldn’t gain them anything and how ever long it took them would be time lost for chasing Discovery.

That's a hell of a gamble if your objective is to protect civilians (and likely a gamble they would lose, considering the Breen's actions).

why didn’t Discovery prepare a fake clue?

I think the answer is the same - it's not something you want to screw around with if you're trying to save lives.