![]() After learning at a “geometric rate”, it becomes self-aware on August 29 – a key date in the Terminator timeline, because at this point, it’s too late for humans to “pull the plug”. No problemo! (Terminator 2: Judgment Day)ġ997 (PRIME TIMELINE) – The US government gives Skynet full control of strategic defence on August 4. With Judgment Day seemingly averted and the T-1000 eliminated, all is seemingly well – though the cuddly T-800 takes his newly installed casual vocabularly to a fiery grave. In the ensuing carnage, the trio destroy the Cyberdyne Systems research facility that’s developing Skynet from reverse-engineered parts harvested from the 1984 Terminator – inventor Miles Dyson is killed in the blast. A reprogrammed T-800 who looks a lot like his 1984 predecessor arrives to serve as John’s protector, and follows the boy’s order to break his mother, Sarah, out of the secure psychiatric hospital she now calls home. Instead, Sarah and Reese set their time coordinates to 2017, where a new computer operating system called Genisys is about to go live… (Terminator Genisys)ġ985 (PRIME TIMELINE) – Future military hero John Connor is born on February 28 – and spends his life dealing with the impossible expectations placed on him by his mother.ġ995 (PRIME TIMELINE) – Another of Skynet’s cyborg goons arrives in the 20th century – the difference this time, however, is that the target is 10-year-old John Connor, and that the T-1000 is a liquid metal mimetic polyalloy shapeshifter perfectly placed to make the most of ILM’s pioneering CG technology. ![]() Based on the “Genisys is Skynet” message that Reese hears during his journey back in time, Sarah and Pops alter their plan to time travel to 1997 to prevent Judgment Day. They also save him from a T-1000 who’s come to sample the joys of the mid-’80s. (GENISYS TIMELINE) Kyle Reese’s mission to intercept the original Terminator is instantly made a hell of a lot easier when another version of Sarah Connor and her Terminator dad, “Pops”, intercept the cyborg assassin on its arrival in 1984. Kyle Reese, who travelled back from the future to protect Sarah, dies. Ultimately, however, the Terminator misses its target, failing to assassinate the one Sarah Connor who’s essential for the future survival of humanity – it ends up crushed in a hydraulic press, though crucially, a processor chip and an arm survive. ![]() (Terminator Genisys)ġ984 (PRIME TIMELINE) – A T-800 cyborg from the future arrives in mid-’80s Los Angeles, and embarks on a killing spree whose victims include several women named Sarah Connor, and a police station full of cops. Sarah’s parents are killed by the T-1000, leaving that particular T-800 model to become an unlikely father figure known as “Pops” – and kickstart a whole new Terminator timeline. That’s what living your life off the grid does to you…ġ973 (GENISYS TIMELINE) – A shapeshifting T-1000 arrives from the future to kill a nine-year-old Sarah Connor, but luckily a T-800 has also come back to protect her. But… in Terminator 3, Sarah’s gravestone says she was born in 1959, while Terminator: Genisys reckons she was nine in 1973, which suggests a birth year 1964. ![]() Why is the Terminator timeline so vague about the date? The script for The Terminator specifies that she’s 19 years old in 1984, suggesting she was born in 1965, which could also tally with psychiatrist Dr Silberman saying in Terminator 2 that she’s 29 in 1995.
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