Star Trek Universe, a Brief(ish) User Guide

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This is a brief introduction to Star Trek, primarily as a relevant guide for writers new to the vast breadth of and wealth of canon, fanon, books, comics, movies, cartoons, and stuff out there in the universe of Star Trek. It is also what devoured my Tuesday evening like a three year old with a cookie. Three things before we get into it

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I was actually thinking about exactly this point for a little rehash of Romulans-wrt-AOS; the incursion of Nero into this alternate timeline by necessity has to change the Federation's relationship with the Star Empire. Even if you buy the line that the Narada didn't have any further impact on the course of things for the 25 years they were imprisoned amongst the Klingons, it seems logical to believe that the Federation got really effing displeased that a Romulan ship--whom they would have no confirming evidence was from the future--destroyed one of their deep space exploration vessels.

So taking into account the Terran-Romulan War, and the detente that resulted, there would absolutely have been some contact between the two cultures further than what we see later in the Trek universe. That's an obvious point of divergence in AOS, as taraljc points out, and must lead to a different subsequent relationship between the Feds and Romulans.

Anyway, I think I'm going to expand more on this in another post about this and other specific divergences in TOS vs. AOS canon, with some speculation about how this might affect the rest of the Trek universe from what we know happened. But it's all so damnably fascinating, isn't it?