Star Trek: Unification (a Generations anniversary tribute)

[Andrew NDB]

Shatner back as Kirk. Robin Curtis as Saavik as well.



https://home.otoy.com/unification/

These are the same guys within OTOY and working for the Roddenberry Archive... so it's technically canon. You may remember a while back they put out this clip, which showed what happened to the Enterprise-D after it crashed on Veridian III.

[ZariusTwo]

Awesome work there, tells a more complete story in minutes than whatever the hell it is Nu Trek distracts us with

[IMJ]

It is awesome, but the narrative itself is lost on me a bit.

I guess one perspective is that this was all some kind of afterlife encounter or the other that Kirk was regenerated by Section 31 and then sent through time to Spock's deathbed by that demon-alien guy? Why was Gary there?

Just very messy narrative carried into "cool" by the feels, the de-aging and he nostalgia. I dunno. Honestly, I don't understand this one.

[ZariusTwo]

I kept thinking about the demon alien, people say he's a character from Discovery but I keep getting him mixed up with at least two other characters from Nemesis and Trek '09

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by ZariusTwo

I kept thinking about the demon alien, people say he's a character from Discovery but I keep getting him mixed up with at least two other characters from Nemesis and Trek '09

He was shown by the 31st century's Section 31 as having been an interloper from the Kelvin timeline. So in this, it's safe to assume he is the one that sends Kirk to the Kelvin timeline to see Spock's dying moment, which we only "heard" about in Star Trek: Beyond.

Between Project Phoenix from Picard season 3 with Kirk's body, Gary Mitchell, Saavik, there's a lot of deep cuts here. Obviously, it introduces as many questions as it answers. My basic understanding of it:

* Kirk is resurrected via Project Phoenix. Possibly Saavik and her son with Spock have some role in this.

* Gary Mitchell plays some role in manipulating events. It's not clear to what end. Maybe he "nudges" the "demon" interloper from the Kelvin timeline to go and help Kirk get where he needs to go.

* The "demon" Starfleet agent from the Kelvin timeline sends Kirk to the Kelvin timeline at the moment of Spock's death in Star Trek: Beyond. Along the way he sees earlier versions of himself.

The obvious question then becomes... how does Kirk go back? Or is he stuck in Kelvin at the end of Beyond now?

[IMJ]

Well - if this is somehow explainable narrative canon then I suppose maybe if they pound out a 4th Kelvin Timeline film, now they can have Shatner play Kirk in that timeline with an appearance similar to Spock's in those movies.

But that's really a stretch to ask theater going audiences to even remotely understand any of that based off of an unclear short from a "professional fan group" from within Paramount or CBS or wherever the Roddenberry Archives were incepted from.

But the truth is that the entire short was all so "dreamy" that it seemed more like a tour of Kirk's afterlife than any narrative dimensional travel, although it's Star Trek so the afterlife thing is obviously not likely. It's not the Trek way. Just kind of silly to go to so much effort to film an unclear short - especially when Shatner was involved and could have had dialog.

[Andrew NDB]

Originally Posted by IMJ

Well - if this is somehow explainable narrative canon then I suppose maybe if they pound out a 4th Kelvin Timeline film, now they can have Shatner play Kirk in that timeline with an appearance similar to Spock's in those movies.

Not a bad thought, really. And end it with Kirk "fixing" the Kelvin timeline and returning home with Spock's body. Then we never, ever need to talk about the Kelvin timeline again.