![]() Through time-travel, will the new Captain Kirk destroy his existing biography? If the next Trek movie gives the new Captain Kirk the potential ability to go back in time and save George Kirk from death, the sticky paradoxical conflict is not only in the aforementioned Trek-tradition, but also, deliciously meta. Depending on where you fall on the fan-outrage spectrum this was either a deft way of changing old continuity by honoring it, or a giant slap in the face. Abrams Star Trek film made fairly big deal of trying to convince the audience that the heroic death of Kirk’s dad just prior his birth changed the entire “original” Star Trek timeline. Which was the right decision? To get stabbed through the heart? Or to be yourself? Should anybody mess with changing the past? ![]() ![]() And so, Picard changes his past, and in doing so, undoes the cool, confident person he was destined to become. In the regular timeline, Picard has an artificial heart because he was stabbed in this brawl, which will cause him to probably die because of an accident with his fake-heart in the present. Correlatively, Star Trek: The Next Generation offered the episode “Tapestry,” in which the interdimensional space-god “Q” gave Captain Picard a second chance at avoiding a nearly-fatal bar-fight in his youth.
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