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Poll Do you consider Discovery to truly be in the Prime Timeline at this point?

Is it?

  • Yes, that's the official word and it still fits

    Votes: 194 44.7%
  • Yes, but it's borderline at this point

    Votes: 44 10.1%
  • No, there's just too many inconsistencies

    Votes: 147 33.9%
  • I don't care about continuity, just the show's quality

    Votes: 49 11.3%

  • Total voters
    434
Well, it would be nice if it were smart and entertaining. I don't think many people are looking for a crystal ball in a TV show.
I want it to be smart and entertaining, too. Part of that is being "our future" no matter how fanciful.
 
By “our future” I just want stories about how humans could be if we dropped our petty issues and hatred towards each other and also there’s aliens and space battles. I don’t think it is going to be a 100% accurate depiction of the future, mainly because I don’t think it’s possible for humans to actually achieve that. But I like to dream and see ships flying through space. I’d also like it to look like cool future stuff, not an attempt to fit the aesthetics of the 1960s into a modern show and act like it’s the future.
 
not an attempt to fit the aesthetics of the 1960s into a modern show and act like it’s the future.
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UIs went from extremely complicated to increasingly simplified, but spike back up to complicated at some unknown point in the future.
 
Real life hasn't been canon to the Star Trek universe ever since 1968 rolled around ...
Or the late '20s or early '30s, the Clark Gable thing.
'09 mission to Saturn
Referring to?
a 1990s which was clearly not ravaged by eugenic wars
At least not Los Angeles.
and Cochrane moved from Alpha Centauri to Montana
I think more Cochrane moved from Earth to AC later in his life. AC would be the logical first star system we'd travel to.
If Star Trek isn't about our future, what's the point?
It isn't about Humanity's future, it's about Humanity.
 
McCoy said Cochrane read as human and the scientist himself has a Terran surname in addition to recognizing the English language and asking if Kirk and his officers were from Earth. Cochrane was from Earth and later moved to the Alpha Centauri system to live there in his later years.
 
Born in 2032. Disappeared in 2119 sometime after attending the dedication ceremony for the Warp Five Complex.
 
The manned mission to Saturn would probably be Colonel Shaun Geoffrey Christopher's Earth-Saturn Probe that was conjectured to take place in or around 2009, though in my fanfic I placed the mission in 2025 and named the early fusion-driven impulse craft he commanded the Titan One.

It just made more sense that a manned mission to Saturn would be launched after the sublight propulsion breakthrough of 2018 mentioned by Marla McGivers in "Space Seed."
 
The holograms even interact with the environment, as we saw with Sarek leaning on Burnham's desk...
The projection visibly jumps whenever it interacts with its environment, though. The person being projected moves around their environment freely, and the projector is trying in real time to make it fit into the environment they are being viewed from. Multiple times we see this in "The Vulcan Hello" and "The Battle of the Binary Stars".

You guys don't even watch the show.
 
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