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They couldn’t remake WOK, in the timeline they’re either before the first episode of TOS or just about to hit the first episode. Kahn hasn’t even been found yet, much less dumped on a planet to get to have wrath.

Yes, I know that, I just think they wanted to remake it, but obviously they can’t exactly do that.

They couldn’t remake WOK, in the timeline they’re either before the first episode of TOS or just about to hit the first episode. Kahn hasn’t even been found yet, much less dumped on a planet to get to have wrath.

The way you have a good Khan story is to start with the premise that in "Star Trek", Nero had a LOT of time (25 years) to plant all sorts of little grenades as backups in case Old Spock didn't come through the black hole with the Red Matter.

This would include doing a historical data dump on the Klingons, Romulans, and whoever else would see Kirk and crew as THE threat that needed to be eliminated. Remember that Nero knew who Kirk was ... was pretty freaked out by seeing "NCC-1701" emblazoned on the ship as it confronted him.

So in the new timeline someone (maybe a lot of someones) knows that Khan is pretty much the guy who came the closest to taking Kirk, etc, out of the picture permanently. So they find him, revive him, let him know what happened, give him a ship and send him off on his merry way.

The thing to bear in mind about the new timeline is that a BUNCH of stuff from the old timeline is still in motion and will still happen. The Planet Eater. V'Ger. The Whale Probe. The explosion of that Klingon moon. Not to mention all the stuff from all the other series (like, for instance, The Dominion has already been through the wormhole and in the Alpha Quadrant covertly for 200-300 years at this point - what do you think THEY do if they get their hands on a history of what's going to happen to them about 90 years down the road?).

Assuming that Old Spock hasn't said "screw the Prime Directive" and been mind-melding with anyone/everyone to disperse what he knows about the future, a heck of a lot of people would know that taking out Kirk/Co. is the key to taking out the Federation.