so where do you put the recent Star Trek movie? I know you had some problems with the physics :) - Jean-Claude Bradley

Red Matter?! It really disturbed my English prof. colleague when I told him the implications - that everything, TOS, STNG, DS9, all the previous movies, etc now effectively took place in a parallel universe. - Andrew Lang

aren't the previous shows in an alternate (now extinguished) timeline, not a parallel universe? - Richard Akerman from BuddyFeed

You're right Richard. They're not going to 'fix' things like they did in the City on the Edge of Forever, for example, that is what disturbed my colleague - he has invested a lot of time in Star Trek. :) "The first one did what it was required to do, which was bring the family together and reset," Abrams explained in an interview with MTV News. - Andrew Lang

the pace of a planet being consumed by a black hole was amazingly (and dramatically!) gradual - Mike Chelen

yes, but it was overall much better than the Star Wars Holiday Special. I'm glad they didn't broadcast it in the UK or my life may have gone in a different direction. - Andrew Lang