I guess we all have to remember in this universe none of TNG or anything else happened because derp retcon bullshit by Kurtzman and JJ. I don't see how that'd change language patterns back to the 21st century but what do I know, I just grew up with this stuff like most of you whom are so willing to let these dudes shit on everything because lens flare, action, and Patrick Stewart. Starfleet is the Anaheim convention center lmao and am I mistaken or did they yet again use the Vasquez Rocks but this time with a trailer home in front of it? Maybe we can find some Gorn underneath that trailer.
Oh I guess it's the Prime timeline somehow but Romulus was still destroyed, that makes sense. Still dumb.
Showrunner Alex Kurtzman told
The Hollywood Reporter that in the new series, "Picard's life was radically altered by the dissolution of the Romulan Empire." As viewers of the 2009
Star Trek movie will know, the Romulan Empire fell because a supernova destroyed the species' home world, Romulus. In those films, Spock's (Zachary Quinto) ship gets sucked into a black hole trying to stop this supernova from happening, sending him back in time and creating a new timeline.
"Star Trek: Picard" follows the destruction of the planet Romulus in the 2009 "Star Trek" movie. Fans should not expect Pine and Quinto to join the guest cast of Picard, which includes familiar faces from the TV show such as
TNG's Data (Brent Spiner) and Riker (Jonathan Frakes) as well as
Voyager's Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan).
As Kurtzman told GamesRadar: "[Picard is] in the Prime timeline, we're not in the Kelvin timeline. But the thing that was interesting about that movie is it was the one element of the film that's still in the Prime timeline, because it was the supernova, the destruction of Romulus, and Spock's jump [back in time] that created Kelvin."
In
Picard, meanwhile, the fall of Romulus leaves many Romulans as galactic refugees, trying to find a home after the destruction of their planet. Kurtzman said of this in a New York Comic Con panel (per Den of Geek): "Obviously, that's where we established the destruction of the homeworld…
Star Trek is a mirror.
"It holds itself up to society… We're in the middle of a massive immigration conversation, and we are very proud, I think, to say we are diving head first into that and using
Trek as a way of exploring it from all points of view."
