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Totally fluffy Trek question: what happens to pon farr now?

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[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

Because that is after the destruction of the USS Kelvin, which apparently has some significant effects on the time line outside of what it had on Kirk. For example, you'll notice it had some effects on Sarek, in that his relatiionship with Spock seems to be much better in this timeline.

(Spock is born in 2232, the Kelvin is destroyed in 2233.)

[tpau]

mmm, i had attributed the relationship to jsut different actors really. it did nto seem that much different form the one in the books at least.

from the movie i got the impression that nothign on Vulcan was affected by the destruction of hte Kelvin that much, the ripple of change reached them later...

[herooftheage.livejournal.com]

There's some evidence that things are different on Vulcan - Sarek is there, for example. My loose understanding from the novels is that in TOS timeline, he spends the 2250s on Earth, though of course he could just happen to be home on Vulcan during the arrival of the Narada.

[digitalemur.livejournal.com]

I can see Tpau's interpretation, and honestly, the night I saw the movie I think I was interpreting it that way too.

The next morning, though, I woke up very very attached to the interpretation that the changing of the timeline was changing all relationships somewhat, and that you could see this reboot as a new universe in the multiverse created when the Ambassador and Nero and Company came through, and that is sort of what my brain has settled on. It allows me to let the original and this reboot sit as independent but beautifully related entities, in my brain, and that's sort of fun.

Also, it sorta makes Ambassador Spock sound even more like a Time Lord, and that's just awesome.