Kelvinverse

Kelvinverse

English

Etymology

From Kelvin +‎ -verse, referencing the attack on the USS Kelvin by time-travelling Romulans in the first film, the point of divergence that creates the alternate universe.

Proper noun

Kelvinverse

1. (fandom slang) The fictional universe which serves as the setting for the reboot Star Trek film franchise launched in 2009 (an alternate timeline of the original Star Trek universe).
   • 2020, Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, The Dark Fantastic: Race and the Imagination from Harry Potter to the Hunger Games, page 30:

     From H. G. Wells's radio play The War of the Worlds to the cinematic blockbuster Star Trek Kelvinverse movies, themes of invasion, conquest, and colonization are the bread and butter of science fiction.

   • 2021, A. J. Black, Star Trek, History and Us: Reflections of the Present and Past Throughout the Franchise, page 150:

     The show responded to fan pleas to return the series to the “Prime” timeline and explored a hitherto under-represented era of Star Trek history—roughly a decade before The Original Series, placing it roughly analogous to the same time zone the “Kelvinverse” films were exploring.

   • 2022, William Proctor, "Star Trek (2009)", in The Routledge Handbook of Star Trek (eds. Leimar Garcia-Siino, Sabrina Mittermeier, & Stefan Rabitsch), unnumbered page:

     In other words, the Kelvinverse versions of Kirk, Spock, Bones, Uhura, Sulu, Scotty, and so on, are not the same characters as their “Prime” counterparts (“whatever our lives might have been ... our destinies have changed”).

Synonyms

• Abramsverse

Hypernyms

• Trekverse
• Trekiverse

See also

• NuTrek