{"id":1070,"date":"2008-11-14T21:42:12","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/?p=1070"},"modified":"2008-11-14T21:42:12","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T02:42:12","slug":"everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-time-travel-in-star-trek-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/2008\/11\/14\/everything-you-ever-wanted-to-know-about-time-travel-in-star-trek-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Everything you ever wanted to know about time travel in Star Trek explained."},"content":{"rendered":"

In a recent exchange on Digital Press regarding J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie, I speculated that it might be possible, with Leonard Nimoy’s appearance in the movie, that the Chris-Pine-as-Kirk timeline might be set up as an alternate timeline, clearing the decks for whatever future adventures await and simultaneously preserving the Shatner-as-Kirk timeline and all that follows it. When I was told that this would be a continuity train wreck, this was my response:<\/p>\n

\"Everything<\/p>\n

Any questions, class? \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In a recent exchange on Digital Press regarding J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie, I speculated that it might be possible, with Leonard Nimoy’s appearance in the movie, that the Chris-Pine-as-Kirk timeline might be set up as an alternate timeline, clearing the decks for whatever future adventures await and simultaneously preserving the Shatner-as-Kirk timeline and all that follows it. When I was told that this would be a continuity train wreck, this was my response: Any questions, class? \ud83d\ude1b<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1070","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-funny-stuff","category-television-movies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelogbook.com\/earl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}