Star Trek Discovery. [SPOILERS WITHIN]

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  1. Amaris

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    Well, you're free to your opinion.
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  2. Steal Your Face

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    I'm fine with cannon, but I don't think we should nitpick every little thing like Kirk didn't do that in episode 22, he held the commutator that way. That being said, there should be some continuity.
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  3. Amaris

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    There seems to be a great deal of continuity, I just think people should be reasonable and not demand the visual aspect of the show emulate a 1960s aesthetic. Not that you guys are demanding such, just that I have seen that sentiment all over the place.
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  4. Steal Your Face

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    I think it should at least look somewhat close to TOS kind of like the Kelvin and not post TNG.
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  5. Amaris

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    Except even Voyager's technology looks quaint compared to 21st century technology. ENT looks far, far, far more advanced than TOS. Going by the movies, which are canon, the Kelvin, which was a pre-TOS ship, looked far more advanced than the TOS Enterprise, or hell, even the TNG Enterprise. Updating visuals while keeping a taste of the original aesthetic is one thing, but trying to emulate it? That's a recipe for failure if they want to reach more than the hardcore fans.
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    ENT looked close enough to pass, IMO.
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    But that new actor is a homosexual. What are you saying, Dayton? Are you coming out?
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  8. Dayton Kitchens

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    Are you? I didn't have a clue that Zachary Quinto was a homosexual. Nor do I care. Any more than I care that George Takei is a homosexual.

    Don't be a hater....Faceman.
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    I'll say this, you didn't know Quinto was gay? It's only been discussed for almost a decade.
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    A closeted homosexual would say that.
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  11. Dayton Kitchens

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    Why is it something worthy of discussion?
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    It isn't really.:shrug:
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    Some folks didn't seem to like the "submarine" feel of the ship. I, for one, actually enjoyed the design. From what we've seen of the new Discovery trailer, the Shenzou, the uniforms, the design aesthetic, they all match up with an evolved ENT look and feel, with a touch of the Kelvin from the Abrams films. The Kelvin, as we know, was a Prime timeline ship, as it existed before the AU split. Somewhere between ENT and TOS, the Kelvin is what those ships looked like, and now we're going to explore that area with Discovery. I'm looking forward to it, honestly. I like that era of Trek, and there are lots of stories to tell.
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  14. Diacanu

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    I'm starting to go with the theory that the TOS 1701 consoles had a holographic 60's nostalgia skin.
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  15. The Original Faceman

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    Will discovery have a brewery for an engine room too?
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  16. Diacanu

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    I'm hoping newspaper press.
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    No!! It can't be!!
    Jesus was alive, I felt it!!
    Heaarrggh!! Nnngyyeeahh....
    NOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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    It's true. Him and Miguel replaced by fence last weekend. It's a miracle!
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  20. Dayton Kitchens

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    Ironically given what we saw of Scotty at times during ST:OS a brewery for an engine room actually makes a lot of sense. Strange I never thought to that until now.
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  21. Spaceturkey

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    I thought the Borg in ENT by way of FC were where the timeline had been split, leading to the more combat capable S/S designs of the JJverse?
    The Narada incursion simply compounded that into an even more divergent timeline.
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  22. Spaceturkey

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    technically, it'd be a distillery, not a brewery.
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  23. Amaris

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    You're correct. Honestly, there have been so many timeline alterations and multiverses, it's hard to keep track.
  24. Dayton Kitchens

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    Why don't they just ignore the whole idea of a single timeline and embrace the "multi universe/multi timeline" concept anyway??
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    Wait, really? Where do you get this? I haven't seen that idea before.
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    I think he is going by the idea of "the furthest back in time a change happened that's where the divergent timeline was created".

    But even that would not be true.

    In the case of Star Trek and Earth history, IIRC the furthest back an uncorrected change in Earth history occurred was in "City on the Edge of Forever" when the bum rummaged through a delirious McCoy's pockets, found his phaser and accidentally vaporized himself.
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    A bunch of things happened in the 19th century during Times Arrow that weren't undone at the end, including numerous deaths, Jack London being inspired to visit the Yukon, and Guinan receiving information about the future. :async:
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    Mark Twain also received information about the future, and got to tour the Enterprise.
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    And remember when Q sent Voyager back to the Big Bang in some episode?

    That probably splintered the universe even more than any other time incursion.

    In fact, I'm gonna go with that. All the Trek I don't like is due to Voyager fucking up the timeline and it's all part of some other Trek universe!
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    Q also sent Picard back to the origins of life on Earth, so even if you discount Voyager, the beginnings of human history have been tampered with.
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