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How does First Contact occur in the alternate timeline (from Star Trek 2009)?


Based on what we know, how does First Contact occur in the Star Trek 2009 timeline? And does First Contact mean the Enterprise-E crew is still somehow canon in this timeline?


Star Trek: Enterprise is still canon (Scotty mentions "Admiral Archer" and neither Spock nor Nero would have been able to interfere with that point in the timeline), and the Borg from First Contact were encountered in one episode. A model of the Phoenix is in Admiral Marcus' office, and Spock and Nero entered the black hole after the Next Generation films, and thus after the Enterprise-E altered and/or restored the timeline.


So did First Contact occur the same way in the reboot/JJverse? And if so, does that mean that the Enterprise-E crew are still canon in this timeline, but only for the duration of the events of First Contact? I can't wrap my head around any of this; can you?



Answer




First contact would have happened exactly as it historically happened in the prime universe. On April 5, 2063 Zefram Cochrane made his first warp flight, alerting the Vulcans and the rest is history. Any thing to do with the Borg was not recorded in the prime timelines history, and most likely would not have been recorded in alternate history either.


The intent of the reboot, as Keen points out, is to start fresh while keeping the background history the same.



Spock: Nero's very presence has altered the flow of history, beginning with the attack on the U.S.S. Kelvin, culminating in the events of today, thereby creating an entire new chain of incidents that cannot be anticipated by either party.


Uhura: An alternate reality.


Spock: Precisely.



However, since history is locked at the point nero goes back in time, to what had already happened in the prime universe WHEN Nero goes back in time. This means, as hypnosil points out that all of the time traveling that TOS, TNG, Enterprise, DS9, Voyager did in the prime timeline to pre Nero incursion Still happened in the past.


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Which means Picard did stop the Borg at first contact, however, this does not mean the new timeline will have a Picard in the 24th century.



Its important to note that Nero left 2387 after TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY had already tampered with the past, and Nero arrives in 2233 of the Prime timeline, and his presence causes the paths of the Prime and Alternate versions to diverge. But at the point of arrival he arrives at 2233 of the Prime timeline that had already been Tampered with by the other crews.


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