The cat ALREADY time travelled. He was originally in Kirk's time, probably doing important things that time travelling cats do. By the time you get to TNG he has already accomplished saving the Enterprise several times over, unbeknownst to the crew.
As I write this I am next to a cat that resembles Spot, who is most likely Spot's progenitor, or possibly Spot will come back in time and have sex with my cat who will then...but you know I've said too much already.
The film is obviously inferior, a cut up mess by a bunch of FUCKING hacks who DON'T CARE about maintaining the canon, like get this in this ABORTION the Enterprise is built on Earth instead of the UTOPIA PLANITIA shipyards of MARS, and if they can't get little details like THAT right THESE FUCKING JERKS are just making a stupid shiny film that will please the mindless NORMALS and MUNDANES and is just a huge FU to the LOYAL TRUE FANS.
(The above is a summary of about a billion posts I've seen about JJ Abrams' Star Trek)
See if the studio had smarts they'd have commissioned this Onion clip as viral advertisement. It makes me want to go see the movie. Now I'm expecting a fun sci-fi adventure instead of, y'know, a Star Trek movie.
(Another Star Trek III would have been acceptable though, as it was self-parody enough to be kinda fun.)
They're going to be way more upset when they see the movie.
SPOILERS:
They're basing the reboot in essentially an "alternate universe/alternate history" so that they don't have to give a shit about beardo continuity ever again with this series.
Thanks Cleaner, you have given shape to my previously ethereal opinions on all hardcore sci-fi fanboys, but especially Star Trek. They somehow extrapolate all of these intricate theories from what essentially, even with updated CGI effects, would be shown on fucking Tuesday afternoon on the Sci Fi channel if it were made today.
Did you know they already made Star Trek IV? That you can watch it on your VCR machine since you're stuck a hundred years in the past? And that it's objectively not very good?
The bit about subtitles for Klingons was good. Five stars for that and for the Onion managing to fill two and a half minutes with two and a half minutes' worth of jokes.
So can we come to a consensus that the Onion video shorts are fairly consistently funny now or are we going to have "I can't believe i'm 5ing this!!!!!" every time one of these is posted.