Like I mentioned the other day, the Enterprise in the new Star Trek movie is flippin’ huge. Like, monstrously so. Well, someone’s gone and done…
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An interview with ILM co-visual effects supervisor Russell Earl at TrekToday states that the length of the Enterprise in Star Trek is 2,357 feet, or…
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Director/Producer JJ Abrams has taken Star Trek where it hasn’t gone before by taking it back to where it all began. Surprise; he rebooted Star Trek while no one was looking, and not only did he do it well enough that many casual fans–let alone the general public–won’t even notice, he managed to do it in-continuity with the Trek that had gone before, thanks to a clever plot involving a time-traveling villain who actually succeeds in carrying out most of his goals before he can be stopped, forever altering the history of Star Trek that has been built up over the past four decades. From this point on, as the film makes painfully clear, anything goes.
The Temporal Cold War was introduced in “Broken Bow,” when Captain Archer discovered that the Suliban were manipulating events in the Klingon Empire at the direction of an individual from the future.
Over the past four decades, since the episode “Mirror, Mirror” first aired on 6 October 1967, we have seen multiple iterations of the alternate reality known colloquially as “the Mirror Universe.”