And there are some bits of TOS canon that really should go in the garbage bin, from, especially the treatment of women in the show. "No captains in starfleet" etc. The 1990's Eugenics wars likewise only work if you take TOS as very alternate reality from what we know about the rest of Trek (and they hardly even work with the Bell Riot/DS9). .
I was born in 1991.
Except they have holographic technology which breaks the story of Star Trek Voyager and select episodes of Deep Space Nine, set over 100 years later.
Though by that standpoint TNG broke TAS by reinventing the holodeck.
I'm talking about the holographic Doctor being confined to sickbay in Voyager (until he gets his 29th century mobile emitter), when ALL the ships seen in Discovery have holographic emitters everywhere. I'm talking about "For the uniform" where holographic phonecalls are a new technology, not something done over a century ago with ease.
With a few exceptions, that's how I like to think of it too. There are a few story elements that also are complete 60isms that would seem kind of silly if we tried to film them today (e.g. storylines revolving around the Love Interest of the Week) and there are some other things that TOS never really bothered to explain to anyone's satisfaction (wtf is the deal with Miri's planet? An exact duplicate of Earth hanging out in space with the same history right up until the mid 20th century... and nobody wonders how the hell that happened?).
We know Discovery holograms can look perfect, we see it when they use them as mirrors.
Doesn't break the story at all, just some of the implications of it. To wit, none of the new holographic gadgets in Voyager or DS9 were new technology, they were just new inventions using old technology.
It's easy to make a hologram LOOK perfect. But a hologram with physical texture that can interact with objects with enough precision to perform surgery on a living being is a whole different beast. It's basically the difference between a windup toy and a roomba.
SOME of what we see is projection. The rest of it is solid material patterned by something like a transporter system look and feel real. The forcefields the holograms are projected against are modulated to just the right size and shape to match the objects they're supposed to be so you can interact with them as if they were the real thing; 23rd century forcefields can be projected as flat surfaces or basic shapes against which three dimensional images can be projected, but they can't make touchable/kissable human analogs yet (or maybe they can, but not with the kind of equipment that would fit into a starship).
Evidently not, since projecting a simple hologram outside of sickbay would have been trivially easy for even the crew of Voyager to achieve. Simple holograms probably wouldn't work for the doctors program, though, since not being able to touch or interact with anything possibly means he wouldn't be able to SEE anything either (that's just the way his program works; the computer isn't feeding inputs to his program from the ship's internal sensors, it's reading the inputs from the part of his projection that makes up his "eyes." The mobile emitter does the same thing. This is apparently so the doctor can operate on patients with precision and not have to rely on sensor inputs from the other side of the room).
They have the ability to project an IMAGE anywhere on the ship. But if the Doctor was just an image, NOTHING about his character would make sense.
