anyone else notice there's water under the floor in that engineering lab with Scotty and Pelia? Dolphins?
The reason I put so much emphasis on this is because they keep insisting it's the same continuity and they have said interviews that they don't want it to look cardboard and plywood and the old look was outdated looking. But at the same time they use plywood and likely cardboard in places and they're now doing a retro future episode with knobs and buttons so they completely contradict themselves. What happens when someone thinks the Enterprise D looks outdated, do they change the look of the Enterprise D then?
Maybe that episode is gonna explain things. Maybe they're gonna use my "Gene Roddenberry found a PADD in his backyard" theory.
It’s unreasonable to expect it to look the same, it’s set in the future it’s no good looking dated when it airs. Just see it as a refit if it helps.
There is a conspiracy theory that all of science fiction tv movies have been made to get us used to the idea of aliens when they finally reveal themselves.
on IMDB, the character is unnamed (even though they credited De Lancie as "Q" and Darby as "Trelane" But I hate your idea.
I know I'm shouting into the void but I continue to insist that the last episode of SNW is Kirk settling into the center seat and then... IF they are allowed to make another series given the way they clipped this one off... Jump to right after V'Ger is gone and roll from there.
They have to change the uniforms though. If Discovery could crowbar their uniforms in before TOS, then a post-TMP show could shove in some third design before the TWOK ones.
That could work better TBH. I don't see the benefit of doing another series of TOS from the point where the original show began cuz there's nothing new to add from there.
They won't do another TOS or jump past TMP. If they wouldn't greenlight Legacy, they won't do those things. Odds are if the abysmal Starfleet Academy 3000 idea works out, they'll concentrate on that and spin off from there if they can.
CBS/Paramount is a dumpster fire. Especially P+. The likelihood that there's any Trek past 2027 is minimal.
Given how things are going at Paramount the next series will be unironically set in the Mirror Universe on the hero ship ISS Enterprise.
Points. In the episode of TOS with Korby Spock says that he doesn’t recognize Korby’s voice. So I guess you’re right.
This was handled last season with baby Khan episode, the timeline is being fucked about with, if they've shifted when the Eugenics Wars occurred, they can change comms tech. From TOS onwards, we've barely gone 10 episodes without someone treating time like a fleshlight. I'd have been quite happy with it being explained away as an updated view of the future, but Trek has a habit of trying to make in-universe plots out of pragmatic production changes. The big questions are why don't the Romulans go back and stop the Federation ever existing, and why do some temporal changes results in new timelines (JJVerse), there are some potentially good stories in those.
It's a good start, I'm not really thrilled with the small universe bit with Trelane and Q, but it was a nice hat tip to the late Peter David. Bit fast and loose with the binary stars in the Gorn finale, but Trek has never been hard science, so I'm happy to switch my brain off for those bits. It's eminently watchable Trek, which is something Disco frequently couldn't manage when given a carte blanche over canon.
Small universe doesn't bother me so much. We've seen it all over Trek. The Naked Now, for instance. Yesterday's Enterprise. Generations. Barclay on Voyager. Tuvok on the Excelsior. That whole first season of DS9, where someone from TNG was popping in every week. So this was just fine with me.
So the timeline for the Eugenics war moved forward then by the time of TOS it shifted back to 1996? That’s dumb.
Yep. Small universe doesn't bother me in a science fiction show. I mean, we've literally seen people brought back from the dead. That there may be connections between people and they meet up in other parts of the franchise doesn't bother me at all. Sometimes it's even awesome, like this past episode, I loved that little easter egg, and that they got JdL to do the voice was a cherry on top for me. I love these little things because we get to see the people we love do their thing again in a modern production.
Why are you so invested in watching something you don't enjoy? If someone posted, "Man I just watched TNG's 'Shade of Gray' and it SUCKED," most people would be like "Damn right!" or maybe a few would be like "Eh, it had some OK points" or whatever. But if that same person kept bringing up "Shades of Gray" pretty much every other post, and talking about how they re-watched it for the 10th, 20th, 50th time, wouldn't you think there was something wrong with such a person? Wouldn't you expect them to just move on from that to the many fine other episodes of TNG/Star Trek in general that they could watch?
No investment necessary. I just think hate- watching is one of the dumbest things people can do Do you really have so much free time that you can afford to waste it watching stuff you claim to wish didn't exist, all so you can go complain about it online?
