Ted Mosby is a fledgling architect in Manhattan, NY, who dreams of designing and building a skyscraper. On his journey to this dream, he meets Zoey Pierson. Pierson is an activist who opposes Ted’s dream project, which involves the demolition of the Arcadian Hotel in order to make way for the Goliath National Bank headquarters. Despite the conflict of interest, Ted and Zoey fall in love and enter a rocky, short-lived relationship .
In 2012, a catastrophe hits Manhattan and, without explanation, Zoey Pierson is never seen or heard from again.
In the year 2387, the planet Romulus is in danger of being destroyed by a nearby supernova. A Vulcan Federation Ambassador, Spock, volunteers his assistance. He intends to use “red matter” to create an artificial black hole to counter the supernova. He fails, however, and Romulus is destroyed. Nero, one of the few surviving Romulans, vengefully attacks Spock in the mining vessel, Narada. Both parties are caught in the black hole, sending them back in time.
The Narada, with Nero aboard, emerges in 2233 where he encounters the USS Kelvin. Nero discovers that he has traveled to the past, and Spock is nowhere to be found. In his rage, he attacks the USS Kelvin.
With its captain dead, 1st Lieutenant George Samuel Kirk is promoted to acting Captain and orders the crew, along with his pregnant wife Winona Kirk (who is moments from labor), to abandon ship.
Kirk orders his wife aboard an evacuation shuttle as he prepares to send the Kelvin on a collision course with the Narada. He finds, however, that the attack has damaged and disabled the autopilot. He is left only with the option of manually piloting the Kelvin into the Narada and going down with the ship in order to buy the shuttles time to escape.
Winona is forced to leave George behind as her shuttle departs. The Kelvin collides with the Narada, with George Kirk ruled KIA. His sacrifice, however, would not be in vain. Aboard the shuttle, Winona gives birth to James Tiberius Kirk.
In 2255, James T. Kirk is recruited into Starfleet. In 2258, Starfleet responds to a Vulcan distress signal, sending a fleet of ships to investigate. Among these ships is the USS Enterprise, onto which James Kirk has stolen aboard despite disciplinary suspension.
Upon arriving at Vulcan, the USS Enterprise is ambushed by none other than the Narada, captained by Nero who had been waiting and searching for Spock Prime for the past thirty years. Christopher Pike is captured, thus promoting James to 1st Lieutenant with a younger Spock as the acting Captain.
Using the same “red matter” that destroyed his planet, Nero creates a black hole inside Vulcan’s core, destroying Vulcan. Spock, emotionally compromised, is forced to relinquish his rank to James, promoting him to acting Captain. Under Kirk’s leadership, the Enterprise destroys the Narada by detonating the “red matter” from within the ship. Nero is caught in the resulting black hole and is ruled KIA.
However, Nero did not die. Moments before the Narada was destroyed, he managed to enter an evac shuttle. He was unable to escape the black hole’s gravitational pull, however, and is sent back in time to Earth in the 20th century. Having lost his sense of purpose, Nero assumes the identity of Bruce Banner and builds a career as a genetic scientist. While researching the effects of gamma radiation on damaged tissue, he is exposed to massive amounts of radiation. Coupled with his Romulan physiology, the radiation transformed him into a monster of immense physical strength–the Hulk.
George Kirk, also presumed dead, was not far behind. While his body did not survive the collision, traces of genetic material were left on the Narada, preserved in the cold vacuum of space for nearly thirty decades. Upon the Narada’s destruction, pieces from the wreckage entered the same black hole–along with George Kirk’s genetic material. Some of this debris would then find Yggdrasil, a network of portals connecting several planes of existence. One such plane is Asgard.
It is in Asgard that George Kirk’s essence came into contact with the cosmic cube, the Tesseract. Its mysterious properties gave Kirk new life, born to Odin Borson and his wife, Frigga. He is given the name Thor Odinson, and would grow up to be a fearsome Asgardian warrior.
Unbeknownst to each other, George and Nero would eventually reunite in their new forms as members of the Avenger Initiative, an emergency response team assembled in the wake of global catastrophe. In 2012, the Avengers succeeded in repelling an extragalactic invasion army and prevented a nuclear missile from detonating, saving Manhattan from certain destruction. It was in this very city that Ted Mosby presently resided.
Little to Ted Mosby’s knowledge, his entourage had been infiltrated in the years prior by S.H.I.E.L.D. Lieutenant Maria Hill under the cover of his off-and-on girlfriend Robin Scherbatsky. While her presence in Manhattan did not pertain to him, she would have a hand in saving his life. His retelling of the events reflected his lack of knowledge about the true nature of her work.
It was during the events of the Chitauri invasion that Zoey Pierson came into contact with the Tesseract’s energy. Contact with the cube rendered her comatose for several years, but nullified the effects of aging on her body, which would go unnoticed for decades.
When the cube’s effects finally dawned on Zoey, the sudden realization caused her severe psychological trauma. She would eventually recover and make a new life for herself, switching identities every generation so as to not arouse suspicion. Zoey would survive to the 23rd century, at which point she’d taken the name Winona. It was here that she met and married 1st Lieutenant George Samuel Kirk.
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