[Movie] Star Trek (2009)

Originally Posted by Ultima

You just don't blow up Vulcan.

Why not? We've accepted as Trek fans the limitless possibilities alternate realities, branches in time, and their ilk afford us (we also accept their occasional screen presence and radical new takes on familiar characters in many of the series episodes), so why should seeing a Trek film from the vantage point of one of those alternate paths be such a painful experience?

(A good example being that one episode in Voyager where the viewer is led to assume the vantage point of a clone crew who think they are the real deal, only to die miserably and then the *real* crew comes along nonethewiser of their doppleganger's ghastly experience... and the show continues on as if nothing happened.)

Vulcan and the rest of the canon remain untouched and preserved and Abrahms gets to introduce Trek to (from the looks of things) millions of people who previously had a deep aversion to getting involved in all this nerd business.

Jam it back in, in the dark.