Merrick here...


A cautionary note: it's very easy to read too much into Greenwood's comment below, so take all of this as fodder for discussion/harebrained theorizing more than an advancement of fact.

This said, in a recent interview with the Examiner, the consistently badass Bruce Greenwood (criminally underutilized as Pike in the new TREK movie) may've opened up a ginormous can o' hydras.

EXAMINER: What would you like to see happen in any of the sequels?

GREENWOOD: I think these guys are clever enough to do at least two more and have the final one do a really hard dovetail into the beginning of [the storylines] for the original ["Star Trek"] series. My expectations are very high for them. The only thing I’d like to see, from a personal standpoint, is the mentor relationship between Kirk and Pike to continue.

...said Greenwood in THIS INTERVIEW with Examiner.

"a really hard dovetail into the beginning of [the storylines] for the original ["Star Trek"] series. " Hmmmmmmm.....

The first question that pops to mind, is: will Abrams & Co. have to make any structural/mechanical adjustments to their altered timeline if they're gonna be doing "hard dovetails" into storylines which might, in theory, not even exist in the alternate timeline/universe they're in?

Does the phrasing of Greenwood's statement not infer that The Original Series somehow unfolds/exists as a separate point in time/distinct events from the current Abramsverse? How is changed timeline reconciled with "Original Series" events (if at all)?

Doesn't some kind of change have to happen? In the current film, doesn't Spocklet say that its character's destinies are altered/they'll lead different lives/whatever? How do "altered destinies" match up with established TOS stories w/o some kind of shake-up to bridge the two? Seems like something has to happen to "reset" or at least "re-calibrate" the divergent realities if storyline are going to dovetail..."hard"...

Or, am I wrong?

Am I reading too much into the statement?

Or...???

Fun food for thought...