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Captain '' crew and universe in the movies that have followed have evolved around Picard, thus creating an alternate paradoxal existence, while the "real" timeline has gone on to reflect the "fact" that the Enterprise-D crew is now dead as a result of Viridian's destruction. Alternatively, the events in the movie can also be interpreted to mean that both Kirk and Picard did escape from The Nexus and rejoined the "reality" of Star Trek. This theorizing with regard to The Nexus about whether "reality" has been restored or whether to which degree it is altered, is similar to the various instances in Star Trek when, due to Time Travel , the timeline may have been altered permanently from a certain episode onwards. Often, the storylines of such episodes involve the phenomenon of the time-travel Paradox .

A more radical interpretation of events posits that Captain Picard never left the Nexus. His experience in the Nexus has him believing he left with Kirk and saved the Enterprise from destruction, when in fact, everything that happens in Star Trek: The Next Generation after this is merely his ideal universe. This helps explain discrepancies such as the character and history of .