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Okay, I'm just really trying to get a hold on the whole Star Trek continueum (sp?) and what things have been adapted. I've been watching old Star Trek episodes in addition to having the new Star Trek 2009 movie. Obviously they changed the look of the ship a good bit. what was once radio-front-like wall speakers is now stand alone touch screen/flat screen video call centers, what was colored walls are now white and round, the entire helm has been cleaned up and streamlined. The beaming room has rounded pads to stand on, rather than flat. The engine room is just...completely different.

So, Montgumery Scott gets sent to...Delta Vega, which in the third (fourth?) episode of the original series is a desert plant. Though, I suppose, technically, a barren frozen wasteland could be considered a desert. If not for all the snow and ice, lol. Anyway, they obviously changed Delta Vega, didn't they? So, this is where Scotty is. Scotty who sent Admiral Archer's (Archer! Freaking Archer! Duh! At least that's how I was about eight hours ago when I realized that the Admiral with the missing beagle was the captain of the first Enterprise) dog out into the nothingness of space. He's lucky he just got sent to an ice planet and not beamed into space himself. And all of a sudden I realize that Star Trek isn't taking place any more than 60 years after Star Trek Enterprise.
Those new Vulcan readings that T'Pol referenced would have have just had an impact on Vulcan society. The first human-vulcan hybrids are born. Spock isn't the first, but he's one of the forerunners.

For how snobby the Vulcans seem it rather surprises me that they made first contact with Zephram Cochran at all.

Then, of course, where does Next Generation play into all this? Where in the timeline? Obviously it's a couple ahead of Captain Kirk because the Klingons have begun to join Star Fleet. But I remember Diana Troy telling her mother in one episode that humans had evolved past primative physical responses (the men were wearing clothes that showed their legs and Troy's mother was oggling them). When did this happen? Because in Enterprise and in the Original they definitely had NOT evolved past these responses. So, how many millenia (being sarcastic) are supposed to have past since the previous series?

And where, exactly, on the time line are replicators and holodecks?

Also, I can totally see where they got the Uhura-Spock relationship, and I love it. I think the flirting in the original series is beyond fantastic.
Still, I thought I heard something about her becoming his pupil? Is that all irellivant now?
There are also a lot of things about people becoming god-like and god-like extra terrestrials. Were these the plot bunnies that became Q?

Should I be paying attention to the series at all, or should I just be looking at the movie?