Star Trek, Issue #59 and #60 end the five-year mission with a two-issue arc, "Connection." The Original Series universe and the Abrahmsverse collide when they each encounter an anomaly in space in their respective universes. So, a James T. Kirk looking like William Shatner appears in the universe where we're used to seeing James T. Kirk looking like Chris Pine. Storylines intermingle in this lighthearted adventure in space that ends as so many of the Original Series episodes does (spoiler alert), with them simply configuring a photon torpedo to save the day.
I had actually hoped that this story would be fixed by configuring the tricorders to set the universe right, but shooting the Federation's most powerful weapon at a problem and that problem going away is so 1960s. And of course, it has been said that the neo-liberalism of James T. Kirk (looking like William Shatner) foretold the era of the 1990s to the present, when bombing people with remote-controlled airplanes is the solution to so many of our problems. Call me crazy, but I don't think we could've had a president of the United States like Jimmy Carter without Star Trek. Imagine four entire years - a Pax Americana - where no soldiers killed supposed enemies on foreign or domestic soil. More or less, of course. Jimmy Carter didn't get the C.I.A. shut down or anything. And, alas, it wasn't permanent.
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