Because the 2009 comic isn't canon and they decided to go with another route. This comic won't be canon either, so why get your panties in a twist? It's got an Odyssey-Class starship in it 30 years too early, that's where you need to focus your rage.
Nope, don't have my "panties in a twist'. 2009 comic is canon according to....wait for it.... Alex Kurtzman, that's right, the same Alex Kurtzman who claims this comic is canon. The same Alex Kurtzman who wrote the JJ movies and the same Alex Kurtzman who is the producer for both DSC and Picard. WAB can laugh all he wants, but his hero is the real joke who can't even keep continuity within his own canon. Don't believe me, look it up, Kurtzman has said the 2009 comic is canon. You can be a british twat all you want, doesn't change the fact that I'm right.
Kurtzman could say Renegades was canon and it wouldn't make it so. The 2009 movie is canon. Anything offscreen isn't. Star Trek Online is about to get its timeline majorly fucked by STP but I'm not gonna bitch about it.
The show will either suck or not suck on its own merits. "Canon" has literally zero bearing on that, and is something that so few people care about it's basically inconsequential
The point is that Kirtzman can’t even keep up with the continuity that he created. What makes you think that won’t spill over into this show that we know he’s involved in?
Depends what they contradict. That the Federation never laid eyes on a Romulan until "Balance of Terror"? Yeah, that's a pretty important plot point of a popular episode, that kinda matters. That one line of dialog by Picard about Klingon first contact kinda sorta vaguely grey-area doesn't match up perfectly to "Broken Bow"? AND the writer of the TNG episode gives it a free pass on TrekBBS? Fuck it. Who gives a sweet shit? Let it go, Elsa. That a new movie or episode from 2019-2020 supersedes your sorta-canon technical manual from the 90's? Let me drink your fucking tears.
Freddy Krueger's origin story in the pilot episode of "Freddy's Nightmares", titled "No More Mister Nice Guy", wildly contradicts his origin story from the flashback scenes in the film "Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare". And they're from the same exact writer! Know who gave a shit? Exactly no one. Y'know what's considered canon? Freddy's Dead. Y'know where you can see "Freddy's Nightmares"? On Youtube if you're lucky.
While it's important to keep various incarnations of the franchise plausibly self-consistent, the idea that there is or can be some canon that extends across films, TV shows, comic books, novels, video games, theme park rides, etc. produced by many creators over many years is ridiculous. Producers throw established "canon" out the window at the drop of a hat. Yeah, if you need it to all fit together, you can tie it up in knots of time travel and parallel realities. But if there's a scene in Star Trek 4 that contradicts a line by Ensign Phaserbait in Episode 119 of Voyager, really, who gives a shit?
Data is still alive, his download to B9's brain worked, and he's Data instead of a retarded android. I think.
What's more important to you, telling a good story, or making sure every story is in perfect continuity with everything that came before it? Has every piece of Star Trek been trash ever since James R. Kirk stopped reporting directly to the United Earth Space Probe Agency?
Hypothetically, B4's systems could have failed sometime after that, leaving Data dead again... But I believe Picard had already left Starfleet and become an ambassador before of destruction of Romulus in the original Countdown comics, while in this new series it appears that he resigned sometime after.
I didn’t say it had to be perfect, but it would be nice if they tried to stay as consistent as possible. They can’t even stay consistent from the beginning of season two to two or three episodes later.
