Star Trek: Enterprise/WMG: Difference between revisions

Consider the last ''Enterprise'' episode, which is an attempt to show that Enterprise ''is'' in the main timeline. Riker, after talking with Enterprise crew on the holodeck, decides to reveal the cloaking device conspiracy (from the TNG episode "The Pegasus"). But in that TNG episode, he doesn't reveal the device before he visits the Pegasus. He doesn't reveal the conspiracy until he is forced to by the Romulans. Unlike in the original timeline, the history of the NX-01 crew convinces Riker to go ahead and reveal the plot instead of wavering until his hand is forced.

* Given that a picture of the Enterprise NX-01 appears on a wall in ''[[Star Trek: Nemesis]]'', it can be taken that ''Enterprise'' is in the past of the "prime" Star Trek timeline. So maybe "before" the events of ''[[Star Trek: First Contact]]'' some things had been different (e.g the name of the ship, the design of the ship, whatever), but "after" ''First Contact'' the timeline had been changed to fit what's shown on ''Enterprise'' -- and this is the "real" timeline, not an "alternate" one.

** Perhaps ''Nemesis'' happened in a [["Close Enough" Timeline]]. The TNG films after ''First Contact'' have been accused of giving their leads [[Character Derailment]]. If ''those'' happened in a different timeline than the main TNG series, then that is explained. And this makes a nice divergence point.

*** The point is that there have been a million and one examples of [["Close Enough" Timeline|Close Enough Timelines]] in Star Trek -- ''First Contact'' being just one of them. In each case, the [["Close Enough" Timeline]] becomes the official Star Trek timeline from then on. So ''Enterprise'' having had the events of ''First Contact'' take place in its past does not mean it's set in a ''different'' timeline (which somehow delegitimises it in the eyes of the [[Fan Dumb]]) -- it means it's set in the latest version of the ''correct'' timeline.

This universe diverged from the universe we know after the events of First Contact.

* But the Aquatics returned Enterprise to Earth after the sphere network was destroyed.

The Kzinti, from [[Star Trek: theThe Animated Series]] (as borrowed by [[Larry Niven]] from his own universe), are the Felinoid variant of the Xindi race, cast out years before for some reason. When Chekov refers to there having been a war with the Kzinti, he's referring to the war with the Xindi as displayed in ST:ENT. Presumably, the Kzinti Felinoid branch of the Xindi were discovered by humans afterwards, the whole thing was put together, and Chekov didn't bother with knowing that they weren't all together or that the felinoids had nothing to do with the Xindi war.

The NX-01 was a testbed ship for new technology. It was the first Warp 5 starship, it got refitted with better weaponry to combat the dangers of deep space, and then [https://web.archive.org/web/20130410182317/http://drexfiles.wordpress.com/2010/04/25/nx-01-refit-diagram/ Drex Files] shows us schematics of it being fitted with a secondary hull in the never produced 5th Season. It's not far fetched to extrapolate that whenever improved technology is developed, it was tried on the testbed ship, and thus little by little it became the prototype for the Constitution class.

Why the extensive refit in [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/[Main/Ptitlebz03k14u?from=Main.StarTrekTheMotionPicturePtitlebz 03 k 14 u|ST:TMP]] instead of building a completely new ship? Testbed for the new hull type. Other Constitution II ships were later built according to the data gathered from its performance.

The M-5 computer? Testbed. The husky female computer voice? Testbed.

This is why the ship was being retired in [http[Star Trek III://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StarTrekIIITheSearchforSpock The Search For Spock|ST3:TSFS]], although the Admiral got the years wrong: the Enterprise was not 20 years old, but ''120''.

This also explains why the new Enterprise felt so strange to Scotty in [http[Star Trek V://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier The Final Frontier|ST5:TFF]]. It was built directly into the Constitution II class, so it lacked all the legacy structures that the old one gathered during its long history.

[[Identical Grandson|They look identical]], and Arik Soong is familiar with the Briar Patch, which has a convenient [[Star Trek: Insurrection|Fountain of Youth Planet]] in it. It's possible that after his release from prison, he traveled back to the Briar Patch, stumbled upon the Ba'ku world, and developed his positronic brain technology there, before leaving almost two hundred years later and resettled with a new identity on Omicron Theta. He hyped the technology a lot, [[Failure Is the Only Option|but the prototypes failed for some reason]], so was ridiculed out of the scientific world. Also, [[Schizo -Tech|The Ba'ku know an awful lot about positronic brains, despite being technologically isolated for centuries]].

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