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The new Star Trek universe finally gets an official name

June 29th, 2016 by Marc Comments

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It may have taken us seven long years, but the current incarnation of Star Trek outings finally have an umbrella title. Trekkie historians the world over rejoice!

Thanks yo CBS, we can now call this new universe – an alternative timeline to the original – the Kelvin Timeline.

The news was unveiled earlier this week in a Star Trek Online preview, ahead of the new crossover between Prime Reality and the Alternate Reality. It was noted that the official title was needed during the development of Mike and Denise Okuda’s upcoming Star Trek Encyclopaedia relaunch.

Here’s the news breaking on Twitter from the powers that be:

So you can stop calling it the Reboot Timeline, the Bad Robot Reality, NuTrek or whatever you had in mind, we’re officially in the age of the Kelvin Timeline.

Marc is a self-confessed nerd. Ever since seeing Star Wars for the first time around 1979 he’s been an unapologetic fan of the Wars and still believes, with Clone Wars and now Underworld, we are yet to see the best Star Wars. He’s a dad of two who now doesn’t have the time (or money) to collect the amount of toys, comics, movies and books he once did, much to the relief of his long-suffering wife. In the real world he’s a graphic designer. He started Following the Nerd because he was tired of searching a million sites every day for all the best news that he loves and decided to create one place where you can go to get the whole lot. Secretly he longs to be sitting in the cockpit of his YT-1300 Corellian Transport ship with his co-pilot Chewie, roaming the universe, waiting for his next big adventure, but feels just at home watching cartoons with his kids….