From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: epwise{at}yahoo.com
Subject: Re: STAR TREK THE WRATH OF KHAN: was What Did You Watch?
2013-06-01 (Saturday)

David Johnston  wrote in
news:konjlt$u78$1{at}dont-email.me: 

> On 6/5/2013 12:41 AM, Halmyre wrote:
>> On Jun 4, 5:06 pm, anim8rFSK  wrote:
>>> In article ,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>   "Danie...{at}teranews.com"
 wrote:
>>>> Lewis wrote:
>>>>> In message 
>>>>>     Arthur Lipscomb  wrote:
>>>>>> On 6/2/2013 10:03 PM, ToolPackinMama wrote:
>>>>>>> On 6/2/2013 10:31 PM, Arthur Lipscomb wrote:
>>>
>>>>>>>> Most of the other characters were from TOS
or just a random
>>>>>>>> alien.  This guy stands out because TOS
had no cyborgs like
>>>>>>>> that on the Enterprise. 
>>>
>>>>>>> TOS did have an android on the Enterprise in
one episode.  He
>>>>>>> wore a Starfleet uniform and everything.
>>>
>>>>>>> http://allyourtrekarebelongto.us/imudd.htm
>>>
>>>>>> Not entirely the same thing.  Androids were
clearly established
>>>>>> in TOS, which made Data's claims of uniqueness a
little odd.  The
>>>>>> character in the movie is humanoid with cybernetic
implants which
>>>>>> apparently (according to online sources) have a
direct neural
>>>>>> interface with the Enterprise.  He's more Borg
than Starfleet and
>>>>>> more advance than anything Starfleet should have
had during TOS
>>>>>> (or even TNG). 
>>>
>>>>> Different History. Different developments.
>>>
>>>> Lewis, I was going to give a similar response to Arthur, up thread,
>>>> along the lines of "Different Timeline, so who knows what is
>>>> possible!!", but as this is only a shout time (months/years??)
>>>> after the re-boot, is it really likely that there would be a Borg
>>>> in Starfleet?? 
>>>
>>>> Daniel
>>>
>>> The history of the universe and basic physics were already
>>> completely different in the first movie when Nero first appeared.
>>
>> But the laws of physics are...erm, unchangeable...
> 
> I dunno about that.  The way warp drive works changed between TOS and 
> TNG.  And that wasn't even supposed to be a parallel universe.
> 
> 

They took place several decades apart.  Can't there be any advancements 
in what is a FICTIONAL universe?
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