re: #168 Varek Raith

Funny how that changed how time travel worked in the Trek universe.
Until that movie, it all existed in your universe.
Now? You split time at a branch while your other one proceeds ‘normally’.

Well, not entirely, Trek has dealt again and again with the idea of multiple universes. Hell, there’s likely a mirror universe version of the Abramsverse. It’s just that, for the sake of storytelling, everything we’re seeing now is happening in a totally different timeline that split off in 2233.