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The new movies were backward thinking by design. Into Darkness takes place 5 years before TOS and 100 years before TNG. Any radically new federation technolog
by Steko 13y ago
The new movies were backward thinking by design. Into Darkness takes place 5 years before TOS and 100 years before TNG. Any radically new federation technology inserted there but not shown in TOS/TNG would just look out of place and be held against it.
- randallsquared 13y agoNew technology like transwarp beaming? :/
- saurik 13y ago(I suggest you re-watch the 2009 movie.)
- jonny_eh 13y agoBut why is that in this new timeline? Was there a line in there about Eric Bana bringing it back from the future? I thought Scottie just invented it.
- Steko 13y agoScotty & Spock figured it out near the post-TNG timeframe and future Spock gives reboot Scott the solution. Just as an aside there's a hilarious Cracked post about how transwarp beaming obsoletes the Enterprise.
- randallsquared 13y agoIt's the major technology that wasn't in TNG, DS9, or Voyager, or the TNG movies... Unless you're arguing that the 2009 movie shouldn't be considered to have any continuity with those, in spite of authorial attempts to ensure that it does? But that doesn't seem to have been your argument. :)
- saurik 13y agoI was trying not to ruin the 2009 movie for people who haven't seen it, but read Steko's response to johnny_eh. This is not some weird timeline inconsistency by the mistake of the writers... this is actually a weird timeline inconsistency by design of the in-universe plot. (If Steko's description then itself seems impossible, re-watch the TNG episode Relics.)
- Steko 13y agoAs a bonus that episode features a Dyson sphere (no Tholians though).