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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
You're too focused on the small stuff.
Small stuff is the continuity issues on TOS first season, the multiple definitions of Transwarp Drive given in various sources. Discovery starts to go beyond small stuff but the accumulation of various small things as well as some pretty major things. The difference visually between the rest of Star Trek canon and Discovery is pretty much the difference between the original Battlestar Galactica and the reboot. Except the difference is that BSG wasn't pretending to be the same. It meets all the criteria of a reboot.
 
I've been a Trek fan for 34 years. The one thing that has remained constant and goes back before my time is arguing over the small stuff. Any one of the non-visual things on Discovery wouldn't be a big deal. it is how many of them there were in those 15 episodes. Most of the series have a couple a season, not a couple each episode.
 
I have yet to do this, but at some point I want to watch DSC side-by-side with the first six movies to see how the look "feels". To see how much I can suspend disbelief.

With the Klingons, I'd pretend they went from shaved heads in DSC to short hair in TMP.
 
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