From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos
From Address: anim8rfsk{at}cox.net
Subject: Re: STAR TREK THE WRATH OF KHAN: was What Did You Watch?
2013-06-01 (Saturday)

In article ,
 "Daniel47{at}teranews.com"  wrote:

> anim8rFSK wrote:
> > In article ,
> >   "Daniel47{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.
> 
> Yeap, the timeline is the same until Nero appears out of nowhere and 
> destroys Kirk's Dad's ship!

No it's not.  Look at Dad's ship.  It's *vastly* advanced of ships of 
the TOS era, which would be almost 40 years later.  And McCoy should 
already be like 10 years old, but his birth got delayed - before Nero 
showed up.
> 
> Then, sometime later, Kirk goes to StarFleet, studies, goes off and 
> beats Nero and is promoted Captain and given command of USS Enterprise.
> 
> Then (12th Movie), sometime later, other missions occur and there are 
> Borg in Starfleet.
> 
> So is Kirk supposed to be 25/30/35 y.o. in the current movie?? So, from 
> a point of time when there were no Borg known to Starfleet at all, to 
> maybe 25/30/35 years late, Borg are part of Starfleet!
> 
> Just doesn't seem likely!!
> 
> (But, then again, in ST:Voyager, it only took mere hours to put a former 
> Borg Drone into the "upper echelon" of the ships crew!!)
> 
> (And NO, anim8erFSK, this Dano's *NOT* a troll!!)
> 
> Daniel

hee hee

-- 
Dano's just a troll.
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