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Originally Posted by Mikael_Cooperman
They keep going back when they should be going to the Future.
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(Checks calendar) I'm pretty sure the twenty-third century is the future.
I get what you're saying, but it's kind of beside the point. Paramount is not looking to extend the Trek story further forward here; they've been doing that for about twenty years and the end result is that the brand is almost meaningless. You're thinking of
Star Trek as a universe; they're thinking of it as a set of specific characters and situations.
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Originally Posted by Lou Sytsma
Visions of bad fan fic aside, if an alternate time line could be set up without being clunky, it would be the best way to sidestep continuity and break away from the box currently around the franchise.
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You know what an even better way to sidestep continuity and break out of said box would be? Just friggin' do it. Treat it like any other remake or TV show that's being made into a movie. Make a good early adventure of Kirk, Spock, McCoy & company, because the fans are coming anyway and if they like what you've done, they'll either bend over backwards to explain why it fits into existing continuity or accept it as a different and entertaining interpretation of the same source material.
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Originally Posted by Norm
I thought Bones, Sulu & Uhura were not on the Enterprise when Kirk joined it?
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They were present in Vonda McIntyre's
Enterprise: The First Adventure.
Which means nothing; the tie-in novels and comics are, as far as the people making TV shows and movies are concerned, just fanfic that Paramount gets paid for.
And, honestly, if there's something in an episode says otherwise? Watch three random episodes of TOS and you'll probably find something contradictory.