From Newsgroup: alt.tv.star-trek.tos   
   From Address: liam@valentijn.nu   
   Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness   
      
   Al Kaiser wrote:   
   >  To: Will Dockery   
   > Will Dockery wrote to All Subject: Re: Star Trek Into Darkness   
      
      
      
   >   
   > My opinion, (IMHO), is that I wish that the next movie could get back   
   > to   
   > the original timeline and prove this to be some sort of alternate   
   > universe.   
      
   That would be cool!   
   But I don't think they want or even can do it. I think Abrams even once said    
   that he wished that his Trek was considered the only Trek. That obviously    
   will never happen.   
      
   But if they do, they should talk to the folks that make 'Phase II' or 'Star    
   Trek Continues'. Or those that worked on 'Starship Exeter'.   
   Or they could Forest Gump it, but then again, they already did that on DS9.   
      
   > How to do this?  There could be a number of ways, one could   
   > be that this is part of the Mirror Universe and now they come back.   
   > It could be the mirror universe before the mirror universe went   
   > "bad".  I'm sure that a slick writer could get it back, (how about   
   > JMS doing a script, bet he could get it back).   
      
   JJ's Star Trek is obviously not the universe in 'Mirror, Mirror'. JJ's thing    
   is a totally different animal all together.   
   The 'verse with Spock-with-a-Beard looked too much 'our' Trekverse as it was    
   depicted between 1966 and 1969.   
   And as others have pointed out, The M-verse was bad from day 1 it seems.    
   Some speculate it might be a continuation of sorts of 'our' Roman Empire.   
      
      
   >   
   > Once they get it back they could continue the early years and we   
   > could even see some of the characters that we liked from TOS, Sarek   
   > and Amada for one who are dead in this time line, and some of those   
   > races that were show in TOS and how we eithere dealt with them or   
   > made them our friends.   
      
   Sarek dies in STID?   
   As for a (first) contact with 'known' races, those would be the counterparts    
   of those of the 1966-1969 verse.   
      
   >   
   > As I said IMHO and I'm sure this will start a firestorm.   
      
   Nah, just a breeze. :-)   
      
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