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Spoilers marsh8472's Consolidated Continuity Thread

Why does warp drive in Star Trek Discovery look so different?

  • Starfleet is employing advanced propulsion technology on their ships in addition to the Spore Drive

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Star Trek Discovery is showing correctly, every other series looks abnormal actually

    Votes: 1 4.8%
  • Nothing is wrong at all, everything is consistent everywhere

    Votes: 10 47.6%
  • Discovery is in a seperate timeline from TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT

    Votes: 3 14.3%
  • Star Trek Discovery's visual effect of the warp drive is incorrect

    Votes: 1 4.8%
  • Other

    Votes: 6 28.6%

  • Total voters
    21
OK.

The badges are perfect. In fact an easteregg of sorts that I’ve noticed is that the badges in StarTrek Discovery are the exact “footprint” of the gold field of an actual TOS Starship Duty Insignia (Fleet personnel emblem). In fact if you lay a Discovery era badge on top of an accurate patch it looks perfect with the addition of the Starship Duty Insignia’s black border going around it.

As for the delta being used in Discovery’s era as Starfleet’s Starship Duty Insignia this is perfectly appropriate. Please read:
http://www.startrek.com/article/starfleet-insignia-explained

Finally, to produce badges that encompas all divisions and ranks (not including SfA Cadets and the occasional Black Badge or Prision System Brown Badge) would require no less than 24 separate badges.

John
 
The patches would not look right on the Discovery era uniforms. The Discovery era uniform itself looks like a good transition from the Kelvin uniform. (and accoriding to Desperate Hours, Constitution class crews get their own seperate uniform, a la Cage).
 
Badges are fine, indeed it seems these badges double as filling in the role of dog tags, as evidenced by Georgiou's name and serial number being seen on the back of her badge this week. Which makes it even more odd Michael doesn't have a badge, even one without rank insignia. Shouldn't the convicted mutineer on a work release have some sort of identification on her?
 
In this series we see Harry Mudd wearing metallic rings around several of his fingers. I'm not sure if they were detachable or not, if anyone knows the answer to that. In TOS his fingers were bare. Do you think Discovery went a little too far ahead of its time there?
na Harry Mudd was only in a handful of episodes. But when we go through ENT, TOS, TAS, and even in star trek 2009 without seeing starfleet crew members wearing metallic pin badges it doesn't really fit in too well does it. This pretty much normalizes anything futuristic that was never seen anywhere during that era. But as you would probably say "it doesn't technically violate continuity because of the black swan fallacy" :wtf:
 
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There were a few times were the TOS patches were off the uniforms (due to dry cleaning), but it could be used as an in canon concept that the patches were in fact badges (perhaps metal, if overly flexible) that held similar purpose to those seen during Discovery.
 
Much like Spock strove to be the "idealized" Vulcan. Just because they say something, doesn't mean they really mean it. Jesus says love the children, many Christians have no problems taking food and medical care away from them for a tax cut. And Roy Moore completely misunderstands "love the children". :shrug:
Not to derail the conversation but there are other means to feed people than the government.
 
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No. continuity is selective. Canon just is.
It depends which definition of canon you're using.

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/inconsistencies/canon.htm
"Canon" is a noun, the correct adjective would be "canonical". Yet, it has become quite common to use "canon" as an adjective like in "It is canon that all Vulcans can meld their minds." This is how the word is often used here at EAS too, although "canonical" would be correct in this example.

With the way they were using the word they do not need to be corrected. :cool:
 
Don't care what EAS says.
I've been corrected on this point before. I'm glad you brought it up. Even if saying "canon" is incorrect, if it becomes common enough it becomes a standard then it becomes correct. Given how often I've seen "canon" used to describe continuity I think it's acceptable now.
 
I've been corrected on this point before. I'm glad you brought it up. Even if saying "canon" is incorrect, if it becomes common enough it becomes a standard then it becomes correct. Given how often I've seen "canon" used to describe continuity I think it's acceptable now.
Some of us have standards. ;)
 
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