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I think we just need to accept the fact that this is a full reboot.

Well, the Klingons in Discovery look very different from the Klingons in TMP/TNG. So I guess we should use Gene's logic again and just assume that Discovery's Klingons are what they always looked like and TMP/TNG just lacked the budget to represent them correctly?

The Klingons in this version of Star Trek have a particular look, and the Klingons in the other versions of Star Trek had their own looks. To me, there's no need to get hung up on it.

Kor
 
The Klingons in this version of Star Trek have a particular look, and the Klingons in the other versions of Star Trek had their own looks. To me, there's no need to get hung up on it.

Kor

Exactly. Which is why I made my earlier statement that "accepting that the show is a reboot, is the key to enjoying it IMO.". That was my way of saying that is best not to fret over the different visuals, or the different look of the Klingons, or the newer tech etc but just accept the show as a new version of Star Trek.
 
The show isn't a reboot. If todays visual GFX and CGI was available in the 60s, the 60s show would have looked like this. That's all there is to it. I'm enjoying this show immensly, and so far I love the new visuals.
 
I wonder how all the people who are defending the "visual reboot" are going to feel if by the end of the season the writers have actually provided in-canon explanations for things like the Klingon makeup - effectively making the season a long-form version of the Enterprise Season-4 two parter about the Klingon "augments."
I'll roll with. I'm here for the ride not the paint job.
 
Well, the Klingons in Discovery look very different from the Klingons in TMP/TNG. So I guess we should use Gene's logic again and just assume that Discovery's Klingons are what they always looked like and TMP/TNG just lacked the budget to represent them correctly?
Yep. The Klingon looks has always evolved. Even in TOS you had two or more takes on Klingons. TMP introduced the ridge and the following films and TNG reimaged that into multiple ridges and outright mountain ranges! DSC is playing with the ridges again and expanding them to cover more of the face. The next version of Trek might move in a different direction.

I thought it was ENT's best season. :lol:
It was in many ways the best and worst season at the same time.

Hey guys, don't knock fan fiction as a writerly methodology - all adaptation is fan fiction, ultimately. And its one which, due to Fuller's involvement in the show, fits it more overtly. So be it :)
Nah. If the IP or licence hold pays you it's not fan anything.
 
But not the story. The very base does not fit with a larger, much more powerful post VOY starfleet. Nor does it fit with a post TOS empire.
The story would just need a few tweaks. We've seen throughout history that Countries become more complacent in times of peace. Set it a 100 years after VOY.
 
If they wanted to awe us with high tech, why pre STOS? Why not resume a story after Voyager. I just hope that when they decide to end this new reboot of star trek, they somehow have a shower scene and we all realize it was just a fantasy/dream.
I think the writers need to get off of the shrooms.
 
If they wanted to awe us with high tech, why pre STOS? Why not resume a story after Voyager. I just hope that when they decide to end this new reboot of star trek, they somehow have a shower scene and we all realize it was just a fantasy/dream.
I think the writers need to get off of the shrooms.
Because the 23rd Century is high tech.
 
The Klingons in this version of Star Trek have a particular look, and the Klingons in the other versions of Star Trek had their own looks. To me, there's no need to get hung up on it.

Kor

My theory is that they're Klingons from another part of Qo'noS or the Empire. That, or they're the result of some very dodgy and unrefined attemps to reverse the effects of the Augment virus and it left them looking different from many of their contemporaries and ancestors. We may learn soon enough, but if the history of Trek is any guide we might not.
 
TOS's bridge looks like a 1950's Nuke bunker someone painted with as many colors as they could, while high.

But it still looks damn good for a TV set constructed half a century ago. For the time and for years afterwards that was the best that network television could offer sci-fi audiences. It wasn't until the original BSG and Buck Rogers that we got spaceship bridges, computers and equipment that appeared to be "better" or more sophisticated.
 
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