This is really the kind of Trek-adjacent topic that c/quarks was set up for, but since this should be a definitive indiation that "Legacy" is not going to happen any time soon, I think we'll allow it.
Yeah, my simplified headcanon explanation is that the Kelvin universe was always there, and Spock and Nero happened to tunnel into it.
If you want to add the wrinkle that the red matter implosion somehow created it (which the original film seems to suggest)...well, it's more complicated, but it works, too.
Oh make no mistake, I'm on record as not really caring whether we ever see another theatrical Star Trek film. In my opinion, it's a TV franchise at its core, and it can stay there as far as I'm concerned.
But I'm pretty sick of the tedius "will they/won't they" shenanigans at Paramount.
I never pass up on an opportunity to share Simon Pegg's thoughts on the matter - he wrote one of the films, so I think his opinion should carry some weight:
Sure, we experience time as a contiguous series of cascading events but perception and reality aren’t always the same thing. Spock’s incursion from the Prime Universe created a multidimensional reality shift. The rift in space/time created an entirely new reality in all directions, top to bottom, from the Big Bang to the end of everything. As such this reality was, is and always will be subtly different from the Prime Universe. I don’t believe for one second that Gene Roddenberry wouldn’t have loved the idea of an alternate reality (Mirror, Mirror anyone?).
This means, and this is absolutely key, the Kelvin universe can evolve and change in ways that don’t necessarily have to follow the Prime Universe at any point in history, before or after the events of Star Trek ‘09, it can mutate and subvert, it is a playground for the new and the progressive and I know in my heart, that Gene Roddenberry would be proud of us for keeping his ideals alive. Infinite diversity in infinite combinations, this was his dream, that is our dream, it should be everybody’s.
The strategy on the film side of things remains an incoherent mess, and I think we should all take this with a massive grain of salt as long as phrases like, "is in talks to," are being thrown around.
But sure, okay. At this point, I'll take any progress over no progress.
For some reason, TrekCore has many more stills than TrekMovie.
Good to see President Rillak out of hiding...
Clicked for the Klingon/Andorian hockey game, was not disappointed.
Turns out holographic facsimiles of people you know get bored, too.
Captain Picard falls asleep; dreams of some dead people.
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This season is really shaping up to the the Summer of Rhys, which is an unexpected surprise.
I was glad to hear the bit about the Breen using transwarp tunnels - it was bugging me that they were seemingly able to zip around the known galaxy nearly as quickly as Discovery.