Everything you ever wanted to know about time travel in Star Trek explained.

In a recent exchange on Digital Press regarding J.J. Abrams’ Star Trek movie, I speculated that it might be possible, with Leonard Nimoy’s appearance in the movie, that the Chris-Pine-as-Kirk timeline might be set up as an alternate timeline, clearing the decks for whatever future adventures await and simultaneously preserving the Shatner-as-Kirk timeline and all that follows it. When I was told that this would be a continuity train wreck, this was my response:

Any questions, class? 😛