Correct.
Maybe. But I like to think Yor came to bring him back to the main timeline after Spock died.
Yes.
765874 - Unification
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They only need to redo the beginning shot in the real world*, because uncanny valley actually works for Clu when they're on the Grid, since he's supposed to be a digital representation of a real person.
*=I would have never shown his face at all in that scene, but presumably the movie needed to establish what Kevin Flynn looked like when he disappeared, because half the audience had likely never seen a young Jeff Bridges.
We've certainly come a long way since this...
What, people didn't like X-Men: Origins Wolverine?
I'd seen the background thing about it dictating the intent behind Gary's involvement, but the piece itself leaves it very ambiguous. This is A version of Gary. We do not know what his relationship to anything is but given everything else it seems apparent he had a hand in bringing Kirk back. Maybe attempting to undo past mistakes? Maybe attempts at making ammends.
Hard for me to say
Rewatching the short again and can't help but idly winder/hope that it could be released as an extra feature on some future Blu-ray. Or even better, all of the (eventual) OTOY shorts getting their own official release.
Hey, I can dream!
IF you were to assign a hypothetical year to the "Kirk in the garden" sequence, what year would that be?
Hey, I can dream!
I know Unification was made in a way to keep the facts of the matter ambiguous, but also that you had a very specific idea of where all the pieces fit, so I'm wondering...
IF you were to assign a hypothetical year to the "Kirk in the garden" sequence, what year would that be?
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Rewatching the shot again and can't help but idly winder/hope that it could be released as an extra feature on some future Blu-ray. Or even better, all of the (eventual) OTOY shorts getting their own official release.
Hey, I can dream!
I know Unification was made in a way to keep the facts of the matter ambiguous, but also that you had a very specific idea of where all the pieces fit, so I'm wondering...
IF you were to assign a hypothetical year to the "Kirk in the garden" sequence, what year would that be?
If we get the opportunity to take this to its conclusion, all the pieces fit together.
Wait… potentially there’s more?
I just hope they give us some warning if they're gonna take the site down again, gotta cram walking around those sets first!
I guess my reaction to this is I just thought this was strange. I didn't really feel anything, well except recognition of Saavik. I liked elements in the other ones where it was doing homages to "Early Voyages"
Seeing Colt was always nice to me.
I'm curious though about what you found strange?
There really isn't a lot of context to Kirk's return and you have to fill in a lot of the blanks with those quick flashes of Colt and Kirk's tomb and the like so I could definitely see that having a strange feel to it.
From what I gather from the comments from @Jules / OTOY , is that this piece is the eventual endpoint of all of those previous shorts with Colt, they just haven't filled in all the blanks with her yet.
All ship's doctor's are dirty old men.
Only in the line of duty.
I've come to the conclusion that, like Spock needing both a physical and spiritual ressurection, Kirk needed the same.
Genesis II torpedo greened Veridian III and ressurected his body; Mitchell restored his soul. Spock had a hand in this, and Yor brings him to reunite one last time in the Kelvin-verse to bring them full circle.
Genesis II torpedo greened Veridian III and ressurected his body; Mitchell restored his soul. Spock had a hand in this, and Yor brings him to reunite one last time in the Kelvin-verse to bring them full circle.
Yeah.... There was a lot going on and it felt rather busy for what I feel should be a simple moment of getting Kirk and Spock back together. Maybe I would have liked it with dialogue or something at the end. I dunno, maybe this thing was just never going to connect with me no matter what. I didn't hate it. I feel like I kinda got this scene in Star Trek VI with them in Spock's quarters before they get to Khitomer. I've been way more intrigued with Colt and the Well of Tomorrows and the Enterprise in San Francisco.
I've never read whatever (comics?) the Colt stuff is from, so I didn't start paying attention to any of it until Shatner. It was nice to see Saavik, and the CGI work on Kirk, but I was way too happy for a tiny Gary Mitchell reference.
If the reboot movies had centered on Kirk/Gary and the early days, even a redux of the barrier incident, I would have probably been their biggest fans lol.
Star Trek: Early Voyages #12-15 by Marvel Comics from 1998. It's a fairly deep cut.
For what it's worth, the Mitchell stuff is also from a comic: Star Trek #400 by IDW from 2022.
Definitely going to have to check out the Mitchell comic, then - there has always been speculation that he could/should have survived his fight with Kirk, so imagining him as a cosmic entity decades later is about the easiest leap for me to ever make with Star Trek.
The Colt stuff seems interesting too - I would have much preferred her making the leap to TOS with Spock, than Janice Rand.
Those early Cage/No Man days are by far my most intriguing unexplored time period.
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The original timeline Cage/No Man days - not whatever iteration we are getting post TCW on SNW.
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