Star Trek: Discovery Officially Makes The Kelvin Timeline Canon
The latest episode of
Star Trek: Discovery featured a major revelation which has officially made the Kelvin timeline movies canon. Starting with 2009’s
Star Trek, director J.J. Abrams and his team begun a brand new continuity for the franchise which was separate from the one established with
The Original Series. CBS All Access’ contemporary
Trek shows have reverted to the prime timeline, but
Discovery has now made an effort to bridge the two universes.
Episode 3×09, “Terra Firma, Part 1,” revealed that the Federation is aware of the existence of the Kelvin timeline. As the mysterious Kovich, who may be a Section 31 agent, explains to Dr. Hugh Culber, there was a 24th century Starfleet officer named Lt. Commander Yor who was a time soldier and a veteran of the Temporal Wars. Not only was he the first person to travel forwards in time, but he was also the first to cross over to a parallel unive