- Considering there is already research being done today on the possibility it's not far-fetched to believe that by the 23rd century science has gone far enough to allow same-sex couples to have biological children together. In Demora's case, most likely through a Uterine Replicator.
- Real-life epigenetics complicate that, as the interplay of genes from the mother and father have been discovered to be responsible for a balance in embryonic and fetal growth. Two sets from males would likely result in malformations.
- The above may apply in real life, but in a movie universe where Spock is a Human-Vulcan hybrid, you can imagine Sulu and his husband making a baby if you like.
- I just assumed they used a Surrogate, besides who knows what'll be possible 200 years from now.
- The Romulan commander from the original series (Mark Lenard's) character will appear and become a friend of Kirk.
- Jossed. There are no Romulans in the film.
- Since the Enterprise apparently gets wrecked according to the trailer, will the main characters take over a small, rickety alien starship to make their way back to Earth? And will said return trip then involve time travel?
- Jossed. The ship they use to return home is Starfleet, and no time travel is involved. It is rickety, however.
- Considering what happens to the Enterprise in the trailer, it should be expected.
- Confirmed.
- Jossed, unless you count showing up in a photograph.
- Expanded Universe materials detail that the ship crashed somewhere in the Gamma Quadrant; perhaps a version of this story will be used for film, but with the ship crashing on the planet where the film takes place instead.
- Jossed: It's the USS Franklin.
- If it is or was a ship of exploration like the NX-class, then it would probably have been named not for inventor Benjamin Franklin but for explorer John Franklin (who led the lost Arctic expedition in search of the Northwest Passage). The ships of the Franklin expedition (HMS Erebus and HMS Terror) were abandoned in the remote Arctic and presumed destroyed for over 150 years until the wreck of the Erebus was rediscovered in Canada in 2014. By all indications, the USS Franklin is an old but serviceable ship that has been abandoned on the same planet where the wreck of the USS Enterprise crashes until it is located by Kirk and the crew and reactivated to make their escape.
- It's not stated one way or the other what the ship's name is a reference to in-universe. In the real world however, the ship's name is actually a reference to Justin Lin's father.
- Since the trailers show the two jumping through the bridge's viewscreen window, sliding down the saucer and then having to high-tail it away from a big explosion, they likely board the remnants of the ship in order to destroy it and prevent the Swarm from being able to use it for their own ends (and thereby paying tribute to both the Enterprise and Enterprise-D destructions in one go).
- Somewhat confirmed. They do break into the Enterprise, but they don't use the auto-destruct. Instead, Kirk activates the ship's stabilizer thrusters to try to flip it, which also has the side effect of blowing it up.
- Resulting in David Marcus being born and Carol deciding to raise the child alone much like the original timeline, explaining her lack of presence during the events of Beyond.
- So that would be In Spite of a Nail?
- Accidentally knocking up a subordinate crew member and having the relationship with her go sour could also explain why he isn't even sizing up Jaylah or Kalara (at least not overtly): he's been burned on all that.
- Despite how the trailers depict the ship's destruction as a Curbstomp Battle, the film itself will show the Enterprise and her crew putting a very impressive fight before going down, as the ship is a well armed and advanced vessel after all. At best, it'll be a Curb-Stomp Cushion, which will help explain how the much older USS Franklin can hold up much better.
- Jossed, sadly; the Enterprise is totally ripped apart in a matter of minutes and causes no meaningful casualties whatsoever to the Swarm, other than a few ships that get taken out early on, and then a slightly larger number which get incinerated on re-entry trying to chase down the saucer as it falls from orbit. The Franklin only fares better by figuring out the Swarm's Achilles' Heel. If the Enterprise does get a Dying Moment of Awesome then it's a little later, when Kirk and Chekov cause the wrecked saucer to flip over and crush Kalara and several Swarm troopers.
- In June 2016, Anton Yelchin died in an auto accident, which leaves the future of Yelchin's Chekov uncertain. If another sequel is made, perhaps they could say Chekov has since accepted a new assignment, e.g. aboard the USS Reliant.
- This was left undecided, as filming and most of post-production had completed at the time of the accident. JJ Abrams has stated that the character will not be recast. Leonard Nimoy's death was treated as the death of Spock Prime, so the same may apply here.
- The film's Big Bad, Krall, is reportedly after some sort of small but powerful MacGuffin, which is his motivation for serially bringing down starships straying into his forces' territory and killing or enslaving their crews. What might it be? Could it be something that has been seen or mentioned in Star Trek before?
- The Tox Uthat, which was said to be capable of destroying stars and was hidden in the 22nd Century.
- Jossed
- An Omega molecule, though it would seem likely to have destabilized and devastated Krall's planet by now.
- Jossed
- All Jossed. He's after a biological super-weapon made by the same species he salvaged his life-draining tech from, which by all appearances its creators regarded as a deterrent and hid it away precisely from people like him.
- The Tox Uthat, which was said to be capable of destroying stars and was hidden in the 22nd Century.
- Because Kirk's career wasn't nearly as chaotic in the original as Into Darkness or the original reboot made it, he lurked in the fringes to build up his forces until eventually someone found his swarm and killed them. Mostly because I'd be tickled pink for a more speech-prone captain like Picard or Sisko to epically chew him out for betraying the Federation for what was essentially not satiating his bloodthirst and throw his philosophy of war's superiority to peace back in his face.
- A possible story arc for Star Trek Online?
- The Xindi War (a contributing factor to his current worldview) was started by time travelers. Without Future Guy and his opposition making Starfleet's genesis more bloodsoaked, he never degenerated into the warlord we see here.
- If Kirk Prime indeed did encounter and fight Krall, he apparently didn't lose his ship in the process. But perhaps the Enterprise got severely damaged, and that's why she got that extensive refit between TOS and the Movie Era...
- And if so, it could have been those events that lead to Kirk Prime accepting promotion to Admiral whereas Nu Kirk declines it. Possibly even for the same reasons; whereas Nu Kirk learned from Krall not to become something he's not (i.e. not to become a desk jockey), Kirk Prime took from that experience that it was time to give up the chair lest what happened to Krall happen to him (and considering how many mad captains and admirals he encountered during TOS didn't feel able to write Krall off as an anomaly and/or product of his time).
- Also possible considering that Krall absorbs physical characteristics from his victims a one-man Collective, perhaps?
- The Halo Device grants an effectively infinite lifespan, but at the cost of warping the user's body and mind and requiring the user to feed off of sentient life to survive. In addition, it also grants enhanced strength and speed (which Krall seems to have). Finally, while the Halo Device normally resurrects its user upon death, it can't restore someone whose body has been completely destroyed, as the Argonath device does. For that matter, the device may well have been built that way specifically to enable it to kill Halo users.
- Correct me if I'm wrong, but there's nothing in the shows and films set in the Prime timeline to indicate Sulu didn't marry a man, so he may have done so there aswell.
- According to his Memory Alpha profile (which details Star Trek canon), Sulu Prime did have an interest in women. He was said to have been infatuated with the Ilia in Star Trek: The Motion Picture and also conjured up an "imaginary hot girlfriend" in an episode of Star Trek: The Animated Series. That's not to say though he was strictly heterosexual. It's certainly possible he liked men as well, it just wasn't shown or blatantly mentioned on-screen.
- This troper is under the impression that Sulu-Prime was straight (or prefers women), while this Sulu is gay. The different circumstance of each timeline led to their own sexual preferences.
- The Warp Factor scale is very steep, rather than incremental. Warp 5 is a lot faster than Warp 4. The Franklin might have been very fast for its time, but the Enterprise was a great deal faster. Humanity was developing faster warp drives at an extremely rapid pace during the 22nd Century. As for registry, "NX" is not really a class of ship, it is an indicator that the ship is experimental. That early in Starfleet's history, most of their ships probably were since they were constantly innovating and trying out new technologies. Production model starships would not have become the norm until later, when the technology was sufficiently standardized as to make the manufacture of entire lines of starship classes viable.
- This is of course, arguable. First, the saucer section of starships have been known to take severe beatings and still remain structurally composed, far more so than would otherwise expect. The prime universe Enterprise-A is a good example of this; she took a torpedo hit that blew a hole into her saucer from bottom to top, yet the saucer not only remained structurally intact, but the ship was able to continue fighting. That's a prime universe starship mind you; one would think the significantly more advanced Kelvin universe's starships would be even more durable. Second, as Star Trek takes place a couple hundred years into the future, one would also think salvage/repair technology and techniques would be considerably more advanced than what we have/perceive now, such that problems such as "permanent" shock damage that would otherwise cripple a modern day Arleigh Burke would be easily fixable in the 23rd century. Third, there's the fact that the Enterprise's saucer took a similar beating from the Vengeance in the last film, yet was still repaired and refitted for a five year expedition. Overall, the way Star Trek works, the ship in question may only be mostly intact (or in this case, even a segment of it) and the Starfleet dockyards will not only be able to salvage it, but put it back into flight in no time at all. At least, so long as the ship's destruction isn't relevant to the plot (as the Enterprise-D's was...).
- Additionally, re-smelting metal to a new hull to carry on the "spirit" of the original structure isn't anything out of the ordinary. For example, the real life USS New York (LPD-21) is composed of metal from the World Trade Center as a symbolic gesture.
Granted, the secondary hull could easily have suffered a loss of warp core and/or antimatter storage containment somewhere along the line, but its last known momentum was taking it away from the planet and towards the nebula, and it presumably still had working maneuvering thrusters like the primary hull. At the end of the movie, when we see the time-lapse construction of the Enterprise-A, it's notably being built from the engineering hull upwards and the saucer is added later in the process.
Additionally, if the secondary hull survived the attack and was kept intact by crewmembers stuck on board, it would provide something of an Offscreen Moment of Awesome for those involved. Maybe that's what Hendorff was doing that kept him out of the movie ...
- They'll find a way to rectify the timeline in a way that saves both Vulcan and Romulus, keeps all the previous series in canon without alienating the reboot movies, and avoid the potential Continuity Snarl from having to set the next TV series in one timeline or the other.
- Jossed.
- Complication: Nero got his Borg-tech from the future. That still leaves us with no indication that the Borg have ever been outside the Delta Quadrant.
- Granted, we don't learn where Altamid is exactly, and in this timeline Starfleet is noted to be more aggressively expansionist.