{"id":517,"date":"2008-11-24T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-24T16:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/11\/star-trek-the-prequel-to-the-reboot\/"},"modified":"2008-11-24T16:59:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-24T16:59:00","slug":"star-trek-the-prequel-to-the-reboot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/filmchat\/2008\/11\/star-trek-the-prequel-to-the-reboot.html","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek &#8212; the prequel to the reboot."},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p><span style=\"font-family: georgia\"><a href=\"http:\/\/trekmovie.com\/2008\/11\/24\/more-details-and-promotional-image-for-star-trek-movie-prequel-comic\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">TrekMovie.com<\/a> has some new info on <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/10\/newsbites-sci-fi-and-adventure-edition.html#3\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Trek: Countdown<\/a><\/i>, the four-part comic-book mini-series that will serve as a prequel to J.J. Abrams\u2019 upcoming <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/11\/enterprise-re-re-re-rendered.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Trek<\/a><\/i> movie \u2014 and they have the following promotional image for the mini-series, too:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SStPN6GEbyI\/AAAAAAAACGc\/UV6n0H7xk9s\/s1600-h\/startrek-comic-poster.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"cursor:pointer;cursor:hand;width: 262px;height: 400px\" src=\"https:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_MwnH1kpbPRM\/SStPN6GEbyI\/AAAAAAAACGc\/UV6n0H7xk9s\/s400\/startrek-comic-poster.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The mini-series will apparently be set in the 24th century, <i>before<\/i> Spock <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/latest-star-trek-xi-rumour.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">follows<\/a> the Romulan villain <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/newsbites-cleanflicks-kong-rambo-trek.html#5\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Nero<\/a> into the past and <a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2008\/08\/yet-another-slight-hint-about-star-trek.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reboots history<\/a>.  And it looks like the mini-series will also take place prior to <i><a href=\"http:\/\/filmchatblog.blogspot.com\/2006\/03\/is-x-men-3-really-last-stand.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Star Trek: Nemesis<\/a><\/i> (2002), since it seems Data is still alive when this story happens.  (That <i>can\u2019t<\/i> be <a href=\"http:\/\/memory-alpha.org\/en\/wiki\/B-4\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">B-4<\/a> in the poster\u2019s upper-right corner, right?)  But the 24th-century portion of the new movie could still take place <i>after Nemesis<\/i>, since it looks like the mini-series will revolve around a slightly younger version of Nero; note, for example, how the comic-book version of Nero has none of the tattoos that the movie version of Nero has.<\/p>\n<p>If, however, it turns out that Spock and Nero do go into the past <i>before Nemesis<\/i> takes place, and that they then proceed to reboot history in the 23rd century (or earlier!), would it then follow that <i>Nemesis<\/i> never happened, not even on the original timeline?  I\u2019m sure some fans wouldn\u2019t mind if that were the case!<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TrekMovie.com has some new info on Star Trek: Countdown, the four-part comic-book mini-series that will serve as a prequel to J.J. Abrams\u2019 upcoming Star Trek movie \u2014 and they have the following promotional image for the mini-series, too: The mini-series will apparently be set in the 24th century, before Spock follows the Romulan villain Nero [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1116,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Star Trek -- the prequel to the reboot.<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"TrekMovie.com has some new info on Star Trek: Countdown, the four-part comic-book mini-series that will serve as a prequel to J.J. 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