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Of course. I'm not even saying that prequels are always bad. I'd love for HBO to make a Dunk and Egg prequel to Game of Thrones and that's nothing except for filling in the gaps. I'd love to know what happened at the Tragedy of Summerhall.
The thing with Star Trek is that we haven't seen what's happening "now" since 2002 (not counting a brief glimpse in the 2009 film). We last left the 24th century with a devastated Cardassian Union, a weakened Klingon Empire, a Romulan Star Empire with no home world, and a Voyager crew who returned home after seven years lost in the Delta Quadrant. I do care about what happens next and I'm not going to find out in a prequel.
But, to end on a positive note, I do love the low tech era of the 23rd century and the wild west feel to the universe that was lost in the 24th century era. I think there's a lot of potential to write some very interesting stories in that time period.
Those were things that I honestly never cared about. Besides, the novels should go on unaffected by Discovery.
Screw screwing canon.
Maybe the main character is an admiral's aide de camp and we're going to see what it's like for her and her boss to deal with a pushy captain who doesn't want to obey orders.
Yeah, when the Enterprise was trapped in 1967 and they had the Air Force SGT in the transporter room, Kyle stuck in a data card and dialled up chicken soup, which appeared just about as fast as Picard's Earl Grey in TNG. I'd say food replicators on at least a limited basis were a reality in TOS, although in other references the ship still had a galley as well. It was probably a transitional period of sorts.
Star Trek Discovery of a MacGuffin? That sounds worse than a war.
I agree with the young part, but drunk?
Though it's not a lens, as demonstrated by Trials and Tribblations. Star Trek was a depiction of the events that happened at the time. It depicted the culture o Starfleet and humans at the time. It depicted the technology of that time. To betray that with modern sensibilities is to contradict what know happened in that time. This resulting in inconsistency story telling.
It would make sense as its not the 1960's anymore. Making it look like it was made in the 1960's is simply silly to me and always will be. Its limiting and does nothing but make it look foolish.
I do agree we should be going post VOY, not backward.
Or Klingons?
Yes, that episode looked really stupid and made trek look silly and child like. It is though a lens of the 1960's and acting like its not is just childish.
While I agree Klingons didn't really add anything to Enterprise, their presence didn't really contradict canon that much. Okay, so first contact wasn't what I would consider "disastrous" but the TNG writer who wrote that line said he felt what was in Broken Bow is in line with what he wrote, so there we are.
When learning about this show having a female lead that's not the Captain, I'm suddenly thinking of Number One. She even had her own comic series, Star Trek: Crew by John Byrne.
Maybe that's where Fuller got some inspiration?
Maybe that's where Fuller got some inspiration?
I don't see anything to cause me any concern. Sounds good.
My only surprise is that it really is in the Prime Universe proper, and not pre-Narada incursion. I look forward to the ways in which the Prime Universe look and feel are updated for today's audience. There is a tremendous amount that could be really interesting there. Dare we hope to see a modern spin on the "Cage"-era bridge? I think that could be super-cool.
The lead not being the captain is also promising. I'm also extremely relieved that the lead is human and not an alien.
My only surprise is that it really is in the Prime Universe proper, and not pre-Narada incursion. I look forward to the ways in which the Prime Universe look and feel are updated for today's audience. There is a tremendous amount that could be really interesting there. Dare we hope to see a modern spin on the "Cage"-era bridge? I think that could be super-cool.
The lead not being the captain is also promising. I'm also extremely relieved that the lead is human and not an alien.
Close Pre-TOS Yay! We're still in the good aesthetic era!
Turtlenecks, gogo boots, and big walls of flashy lights galore.
Gimme that good old fashioned Raygun Gothic plz.
Turtlenecks, gogo boots, and big walls of flashy lights galore.
Gimme that good old fashioned Raygun Gothic plz.
Practicalities of make-up and on-stage time, perhaps.
I would hope that having a more universally accessible protagonist would be of higher priority than those. I mean, I actually believe that is probably the case.
