The altered, or perhaps more accurately: corrected, Kahn history happened during Picard.
https://www.belloflostsouls.net/2022/07/star-trek-and-captain-kirks-nemesis-the-khan-breakdown.html#:~:text=According%20to%20Star%20Trek%3A%20The,order%20to%20continue%20being%20relevant.
One note about the timeline: Khan’s origins are somewhat fluid. According to Star Trek: The Original Series Khan is born in 1959 and comes to power in the 1990s. Pragmatically speaking: no one expected Star Trek to continue existing as a franchise for thirty years, let alone sixty. The timelines are changing because the show has to change in order to continue being relevant.
If you want an in-universe explanation, Picard showrunner Terry Matalas points out that historical data from that time may be inaccurate due to the catastrophic third world war that happens in the 21st century. And there’s also the Temporal Cold War from Star Trek: Enterprise which may have altered the timeline.
I can live it, but I don't see why, and am also perturbed that, they felt changing it was an imperative instead of writing to accommodate it. But it doesn't ruin anything for me. Regardless, it's been done now and it turns out Kahn's reign of terror happened sometime after 2021, not the 90s i.e. what they thought they knew during the OG ST era was either wrong, or the Temporal Cold War altered it.
But SNW episode 3 was just following the updated information established in Picard. The blame really lies with Picard's early writers (before the show changed hands and got leaps and bounds better with season 3). The ST shows seem to have course-corrected somewhat.
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DarthAckbar (2317)
2 years ago
i dont know why people get so hung up on years and dates, they literally mean nothing storywise, heck in TOS they rather famously never even said what year they were in
why? because it did not matter to the story they were telling
they have constantly changed years and dates in the terminator franchise, and no one complains about that
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TylerAArse (2938)
2 years ago
Because The Terminator franchise doesn't have the following that Star Trek does. Most of those movies are worthless.
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FFNogoodnik (778)
2 years ago
The correct timeline was the one presented in "Space Seed". Changing the timeline just because stuff did not happen in real life is dumb. Star Trek is fiction so whether something happened when they said it did nor did not is irrelevant.
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