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Re: Star Trek XI- Official now- 12.25.2008
As I said on another forum, I wouldn't be surprised if this film took place in two time periods.
We know Nimoy is providing some kind of book end to the picture. So perhaps in the future (sometime after Next Gen, so I guess that is 24th century?), a dying Spock is passing on his knowledge and wisdom to his offspring (son or daughter) before he passes away peacefully. He passes on this collected knowledge via mind meld, just like the dying Sarek did to Picard in Sarek's last episode on Star Trek the Next Generation (Sarek would have passed it on to Spock but Spock was away on Romulus).
Spock's offspring experiences the story of young Kirk and young Spock, and that may be the bulk of the motion picture. But a clever writer could have the 24th century person (Spock's son or daughter) take some kind of active role in completing something from the past.
And a bonus is that whichever era gets better audience reception can be the era for the sequel.
I'm sure other fans have suggested this same scenario, or variations of it.
'Our ideas of perfect are so imperfect' -Sam Phillips
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