Here is why.

They blew up Vulcan. Go through all of the original series, TNG, DS9 and Voyager (wasn’t a Vulcan a key member of that crew?) each time you see a Vulcan on the show… Nope – they are dead. Shows are not the same…

There were several episodes that Spock or someone visited the home world. Never happened.
That episode where all of the races were looking for the “Magic weapon” that turned out to be a message from the past – Never happened Vulcan was destroyed so they were missing that piece of the puzzle FOREVER!

Vulcan was destroyed by a Rolmulan – you’re telling me that didn’t set off an intergalactic War between Romulus and Earth and what was left of the Vulcans?

How would that have affected the Klingon, Human relationship? Don’t you think that after a Romulan DESTROYED and entire home world, that the Klingon’s would have never let their guard down and the incident at Kitimer sp? (where Worf’s dad died ) would not have happened? – would that have also impacted the Tasha Yar story? Would Enterprise C or the Klingon outpost been so lax coming in when a Romulan was attacking?

Both of the unification episodes – Gone!

AND – since that changed the entire Future – it would have been better if just when Vulcan disappeared, Old Spock should have vanished… Who knows what happened to him after that change in the continuum…
This movie was a mistake in the StarTrek Universe…

But it’s just a movie…

This new time line will allow the cast of characters, I love, to give us some new material to watch. And all of you die hard trek dissectors, something to bitch about.

Can’t wait for the next movie!!!!!!

I wrote a parody to review the film would like to know what people think.

http://www.bukisa.com/articles/191154_star-trek-xi-parody-script

1) This would explain why the USS Relativity doesn’t show up to fix the timeline. Because it’s the mirror universe they don’t care about what happens there.

2) This would explain why there is no George Samuel Kirk. This Kirk does not have a brother in the Mirror Universe, so he is essentially George, but is named Jim due to the destruction of the USS Kelvin and early death of his father Lt Kirk. It also explains why he is such a trouble maker without conscience, unlike the original Captain Kirk. Why, because this is the mirror universe.

4) This would also explain why Uhura and Spock have a relationship. This Mirror Spock doesn’t care about his bond with T’pring and with the destruction of Vulcan she dies anyway.

3) Why does Pike not get court martialed for doing such a poor job defending the planet Vulcan? Because he is an officer of the Terran Empire, not the Federation. They probably perfer the destruction of Vulcan to a lesser degree or don’t care otherwise. Since the Romulan Empire is independent in the Mirror Universe, the issue of defeating a new Romulan Ship is likely a more pressing issue than saving Vulcan.

4) It would also explain why the USS Kelvin looks so weird. The design of the Kelvin that we see on screen was influenced by the appearance of the Constitution class USS Defiant that appeared in Tholian space in the time of Captain Archer of the Terran Empire.

It will be cake for writers to retcon this version of Star Trek in the future. If the Tholians could open a gateway into an alternate future universe, then the Red stuff that Spock was using could do the same into the past. In fact this timeline could be an attempt by the Terran Slave resistance to keep the Terran Empire from losing power to the Alliance with the assistance of maniputating the time line in the Mirror Universe.

1. Nero spends 25 years as a prisoner at Klingons’ Rora Pente (?). The Klingons are so stupid that they have no clue whatsoever (based on Nero’s vessel and its technology) that Nero is from the future until 25 years later.

2. Black hole stuff? How big is the smaller black hole? Greater than 1 solar mass? How strong is its gravity? Can Nero drop it to the surface of Vulcan and that’s it? Why wasting time drilling a hole to the planet core?

3. Or dropping the red matter somewhere near Vulcan moon will work as well. Oh dear!, Vulcan has no moon! (from TOS).

4. Red matter? You need only small amount of it to create a black hole. Why does Spock carry a tank of red matter? It sounds like Spock plans to suck the whole galaxy. Traveling with a large amount of red matter is comparable to carry WMD with you. That’s very illogical by Spock’s standard.

5. JJ Abram wanted to do fast paced Trek, just like Star Wars, to lure younger audience. Should he make Star Wars instead?

Some guys may already talk about this Trek and its alternate timeline. I do not want to discuss time travel. It has been a pain watching it!

I must say….I have a feeling that this Trek makes “The Final Frontier” look really good. At least Kirk meets God and he does not impress! Kirk is as Kirk by his standard.!