Lazar wrote:A bit of a tangent, but considering all the retconning and timeline discrepancies in ST, I think it would have been awesome if they had established that the World War III of the 2050s was the same thing as the Eugenics Wars, and that the Eastern Coalition was the bloc of Asian and Middle Eastern nations led by Khan. It could have really helped tie the franchise together.
That's true but the TOS had that war series in the 1990's and as we all know that did not happen so a shift in time is a plausible idea for the eugenics wars