Star Trek: 10 Times Canon Got In The Way

10. He's From Iowa

Ahhh Kirk my old friend.. hang on. Wrong universe!

The Kelvin timeline comes in for its share of fair and unfair criticism across the course of its three movies. Did fans need a rehash of The Wrath of Khan? Would the franchise have seen a rebirth on TV if it wasn't for JJ Abrams? Both are good questions and while it managed to write its own future history thanks to the pesky incursion of those Romulans on the Narada, it did manage to still tamper with canon and all in the first ten minutes.

Picture the scene, the USS Kelvin is faced with the mighty Romulan ship from the future, killing George Kirk and seeing James born on a medical shuttle evacuating the devastation. It's an epic way to open what could be considered the finest of those three reboots and helps set up that alternative 23rd Century.

But. If we follow the true path of Star Trek canon, James Kirk was born in Iowa - he even drops that line in The Voyage Home just to cement a point. Later in the movie, it's even noted that the two universes diverged at that moment and not before which means that everything before the destruction of the Kelvin should also occur in the Prime Universe. Never let a good action scene get in the way of plot!