Star Trek prequel coming to the iPhone

Yes, Nero is originally from the post-Nemesis Star Trek universe, but travels back in time to the pre-Original Series period and starts blowing crap up or what-have-you, essentially creating an alternate Trek timeline as (what thus far appears to be) a grandiose justification for J.J. Abrams & Co. to do exactly what you said — flip the bird at existing canon.

I can see, though, why trying to stay true to 40 years' worth of the stuff, even retroactively for a reboot movie, might make a filmmaker want to throw up his hands in despair and say "screw it, we're doing time travel AGAIN!" :) Sometimes you just have to start fresh to make it interesting enough for a new audience.

That said, I look forward to reading these comics to see how they lead up to the movie, which I'm sure I'll still enjoy as well.

Are they animated like the watchmen motion comic?

I need the 4th one!

I downloaded the first three issues on Android a few weeks ago (apparently the exact same app as this) and it's actually pretty good. It takes place quite a while after the last TNG movie, so you get to see where everybody ended up after they all retired from the Enterprise.

I also never understood why somebody would feel the need to identify themselves as a Star Wars fan to justify their disinterest with Star Trek. Sure they are different styles of Science Fiction, but they're both nerdy adventure stories with lots of fake science and crazy space ships. I honestly don't see why you would love one but hate the other, they're both pretty well built universes.

Greedy greedy Paramount, not they let us pay their commercials

@sawatzky

Well said. Both Universe are what sci fi fans love. I for one love both so much i can say one is above or bellow the other. Go Star Trek and Star Wars :-D

ST and SW are not polar opposites. There is room for BOTH in a sci-fi fans heart!