CatBus said:

Well sure, but the PT tie-in is unnecessary to accomplish this. Why not have Max Von Sydow play some entirely new character, instead of an elderly, decrepit Boss Nass? The fact that there's so much distance between the ST and the PT is an "all clear" signal to the writers that the trainwrecks of the past can be ignored altogether. Instead there's more of this "unified saga though unnecessary cameos" BS we get from the Special Editions. It would be unified enough just by not too explicitly contradicting anything from the previous films.

I think that bullet point was just written weirdly. I don't think Von Sydow is supposed to be a character that we know from the PT. Just that he was around at that time. But if he is, my votes on Kitster! =P