True, but STO has incorporated the destruction of Romulus into its storyline, something that Pocket apparently isn't allowed to do at the moment.
So the actual CBS name for the JJverse/NuTrek is...
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Which is merely a difference in licensing arrangements. It's got nothing to do with the factors behind the previously mentioned STO/IDW parallels. As I already said, STO has borrowed characters, ships, and plot points from the novels as well, even while contradicting others. After all, they had a big multiplayer game universe to build and had to bring in as much material as they could to populate it.
Except everyone called it something different. I always referred to it as "nuTrek", others called it "JJ-Trek". It's nice to have an official name to refer to definitively. I'll probably still call "nuTrek" at the slip of the tongue or finger, just out of habit.
Strange that it took so long and only comes up now. Didn't need to wait for a Prime Timeline show to create one.
Not to mention that fandom has gone along with official, top-down changes in terminology before. When TNG first came out, people started referring to the original series as "Classic Trek," by analogy with New and Classic Coca-Cola. The Star Trek: The Original Series designation wasn't coined until the '90s (the original '93 Okudachron is the earliest reference I can find on a cursory check) and didn't become its official retronym until later DVD releases. And I don't think the Filmation show was officially called The Animated Series/TAS until after the turn of the millennium. Both the '93 and '96 Chronology editions merely refer to it as "the animated Star Trek," which is how I usually thought of it back in the '80s and '90s. (As a kid, I called it "the cartoon Star Trek.") I seem to recall Star Trek Animated being used in some cases, and the initial home-video releases called it The Animated Adventures of Gene Roddenberry's STAR TREK.
By the way, I'm surprised to discover that Memory Alpha actually cites me as the source for the name "Abramsverse." I certainly didn't coin it, and I've never been crazy about it; I just picked up on other people's use of it because I found it the least cumbersome option available.
I thought we were in Dimension C-137?
^ We are.
I see people just calling it "The KT" now, which makes me think of black horses and cherry trees.
It makes me think of the extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs...
(And I totally don't get your reference.)
I didn't get it either.
But the K-T extinction is now called the K-Pg (Cretaceous - Paleogene) extinction event. Not sure when they changed the geologic periods, but Tertiary is now divided up into Paleogene and Neogene.
But I actually wouldn't mind using the shortened "KT", as in "KT-Enterprise", since geologists aren't using the term much anymore.
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Yeah, and when fans complain about whatever happens in the next movie, they can talk about how bugged they are by what KT did.
Abrams isn't "gone."
Not as long as we remember him.
Abrams is still producing Beyond, he's just not directing it.
Still, it's possible that other filmmakers or TV producers in the future might do more with this timeline, so it's good to have a name for it that isn't tied to any single creator.
Still, it's possible that other filmmakers or TV producers in the future might do more with this timeline, so it's good to have a name for it that isn't tied to any single creator.
Just curious what 'producing' means here. "Bankrolling", "creativity", both or something else altogether?
I would say, at the very least, he's some kind of tertiary adviser.
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