Why Does the Kelvin Timeline Look So Different?

So I feel the need to clarify. At 49 seconds in I state that I'm not looking at real world licence agreements but I'm well aware of the real world financial motivations. This video focuses on in-universe reasons for the differing appearance that are brought up by Memory Beta content. Thank you for reading this before commenting.

Romulan tech is green. Borg tech is green. So they're compatible. Federation tech is blue. Obviously incompatible.

The Kelvin universe is a prime example of why the Temporal Prime Directive, and the Prime Directive in general is absolutely necessary.

"My advice on making sense of temporal paradoxes is simple: don't even try."- Captain Janeway

Personally I just assume the Kelvin Timeline was ALWAYS an alternate universe even before the Narada's incursion. Similar to how the Prime Timeline's Defiant was sent back to the Enterprise-era Mirror Universe. That's an easier handwave to explain the continuity disparities than saying the Narada Incursion created an alternate reality, and fits more in line with previous Trek's time travel rules.

The thing I hated was that he was back in time so he had a chance to save his planet from exploding again. But nope decided to be stupid af and try and get revenge instead.

Levels of understanding of time travel. Level 1 - Basic: time splits. Level 2 - Advanced: time bends. Level 3 - Proper: wibbly wobbly, timey wimey...

Nero was fiddling around while Romulus burned Wait....

"A wall of fiery explode." I'm gonna have to use that one at some point.

I went in to the 2009 knowing they'd be facing Romulans, they had put that out there before the movies release. My very first thought upon seeing the Narada was "that's not Romulans. That's Borg." And I was kind of right....

I would freaking LOVE to see what later Kelvin-timeline ships (i.e. Galaxy- and Nebula-class) would look like and what their capabilities would be.

I just thought of something. Q revealed himself to Picard because they'd come so far from home without being ready for things like the Borg. But... now they've seen the Borg, plus more. The Kelvin Timeline could possibly never come into contact with the Q Continuum. There's no need this time around.

I love the fact that in the Kelvinverse beta continuity, it is canon that there is a Green Lantern Corps

Copyright: Exists, necessitating design changes Ancient Aliens meme guy: “I’m not saying it’s the Borg, but it’s the Borg.”

what about the time police from the 30th century introduced by voyager. they should have stopped Nero

Honestly, I want to see a TNG show but in the Kelvin timeline. The Kelvin Constitution class is as big as a sovereign class, so imagine the size of the galaxy and sovereign classes in the Kelvin Timeline.

I dont understand the "you tried to help me but failed, now i want revenge" trope...

So, in 1981, at the end of the day during one of my elementary grade school days, for some reason out in the parking lot, there was a girl who had a model kit open and was looking through it. It was an AMT or Revell model kit of the the U.S.S. Enterprise. She let me look at it in detail, and the thing that jumped out at me were the pictures on the inside and outside on the box. I remember seeing the lines on the pylons being curved. It had big round Bussard collectors, and the navigation dish was slightly off-set from the hull. And the colors were bright white and blue. I was amazed by this 'different' version of the Enterprise. I'd never seen it before. Our whole family was very into Star Trek at the time, so I came home looking for one of my brothers TOS Enterprise models. Sure enough it was very different from what that girl had. I was totally confused and brooded over what I had saw constantly. I never could find the girl to ask her what that model was despite looking for her all the time after school. A year or so later, my dad took me and my brothers to see Wrath of Khan (I guess he felt I was too young to take to TMP), and I had learned there was a 'movie' Enterprise. I had hoped that this would be the big reveal that would show me that this girl had the Enterprise from the movies. When I saw the newer Enterprise refit, I was disappointed and still bewildered. It was not the same ship. Fast forward to Star Trek 2009... the SECOND I laid eyes on this 'Kelvin' Enterprise, I knew that was it. In fact, if you pause this video at 8:55, this is exactly the picture on the box cover of the model the girl had. It was like she had some sort of model sent to her from the future. Or... was this some MAJOR Mandela Effect? Crazy stuff.

You mentioned something here that I fully appreciate about Star Trek Beyond. Even though the villain is kind of weak, the Enterprise and her crew really feel like they're explorers again.

"That's not radiation, that's a firey wall of explode." nice one rick.