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Star Trek 11's writer explains why his Star Trek still works inside the Trek canon.

December 12, 8:53 PMMovie ExaminerJason Roestel
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Believe me, this column is really only for the bonafide Trek-core. All others, minor curiosities aside, might look at this article and think Trekkies take their sh!t way to seriously. I try not to. I attempt to keep my Star Trek thing somewhere around a manageable level - I keep a chain on it.  I want the new movie to kick ass. I don't want Kirk and Uhura parenting a child together to do that though. I want a fun Trek flick, but not one that makes fun of all the other Trek flicks. And I think most serious Trek fans feel about the same way.

Because the new Star Trek 11 trailer had some mildly not-so-true to the history of Star trek clips in it, (Enterprise wasn't built on Earth!?) and because the more elitist Trek-core went systematically INSANE over these affronts to their 40 year old favorite couch amusement, TrekMovie decided to corner producer/writer Anthony Pascale about the new film's liberties to Trek canon. Here's a LINK to that article. Believe me it's pretty quantum theory heavy, only the devout need dare care enough to slam through this crash course in quantum theories, alternate timelines, and parallel universe propaganda. But Bob does make a pretty great case as to why his Star Trek still works with all the other Star Trek history before it.

SPOILER BELOW!!!!!

For those that don't care as much. There's a bit of time travel in the film, that messes with the timeline. Think of that amazing 3rd season episode of Next Generation Yesterday's Enterprise and you will sort of know what J.J. Abrams and company are attempting to pull off with Trek 11. I could care really care less, just make the movie rock and I'll be one happy little Trekker.

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