Can't speak for everyone, but I'm a Trek wiki editor, so it's kinda important for me to know what we accept as canon and prime and what not. But yeah, in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter at all.
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My head-canon doesn't allow Shat to transition to that brillo-pad on his head in only 2-3 years regardless of what official canon has to say about it.
23rd century hairstyle tech is off the hook, bro
I actually think this one is really simple:
1. They needed to make it clear it's not in the Kelvinverse
2. They wanted to avoid a perceived complication of creating yet another continuity/timeline.
what happend to his hair on his last away team mission on Toupetus V is an adventure that we simply never saw
So we're too dumb to follow a third timeline? Even though we've had no problems over the years separating the various Batman, Superman, Battlestar Galactica and other properties that periodically remake themselves?
It has been "internally rebooted" once and "visually rebooted" since minor aspects of TOS season 3 and roughly 20-30 times since then. The only consistent rebooting of form, has been it's aesthetic.
Aesthetics beyond a certain point changes canon, like the literal window on the bridge.
Ah I see your logic now. It still doesn’t explain why DSC looks vastly different from an in-universe perspective but I see where you’re coming from now thanks.
It would have been interesting to see what gene would have wanted if the TOS era had been revisited post TMP. Since we didn’t get that, all we’ve got to go on is “relics”, “trials” and “mirror darkly” where it all looks like TOS. Oh and DSC.
It runs a bit deeper than that. Details have constantly been evolving. People here think its okay to move the Eugenics Wars if it is ever brought up again.
The Prime Universe: a death by a thousand retcons!
I’d be happy with the bridge window if they showed us a blast shield. Seriously - just have a scene where the blast shield is closed and i’d be cool with it
It runs a bit deeper than that. Details have constantly been evolving. People here think its okay to move the Eugenics Wars if it is ever brought up again.
The Prime Universe: a death by a thousand retcons!
6 series in development, 2 movies alongside them, billions of dollars in investment, the flagship series of a new streaming service, several awards and now probably what's going to be a 5-10 year plan to keep it going.
Man, death never looked so healthy.
I’d be happy with the bridge window if they showed us a blast shield. Seriously - just have a scene where the blast shield is closed and i’d be cool with it
Why the need? A blast shield wouldn't have saved the bridge of the "E" (in Nemesis) once the shields went down. I imagine whatever material they are using for the windows is likely as strong as any bulkhead.
Yeah that doesn’t make sense to me. If they have a decent explanation (temporal Cold War or some such) I’d be ok with them moving the eugenics wars but since the date of khan’s exodus has been established I don’t see how it can be changed without making parts of the vaunted Star Trek II incorrect.
And "Space Seed". Pfft. It is only details. Those are unimportant.
I agree - transparent aluminium would have to be as strong as duranium in space. Maybe there are some anomalies that could get through aluminium or it’s for extra protection in an attack - I know the whole idea is rendered illogical by having windows elsewhere on the ship. It would just be nice if the production team acknowledged the change rather than assume we’ll not notice / not care / tell other people online we’re weird for caring in the first place (I get the last one the least...)
I’d be happy with the bridge window if they showed us a blast shield. Seriously - just have a scene where the blast shield is closed and i’d be cool with it
I don't have a problem with the idea of a bridge window---if it had only been established back in the 60s. It's just that it seemed that the show went out of its way to discourage the idea that you needed a literal window, instead opting for sensors and viewscreens. That was pretty forward-thinking and is not an outdated concept at all. That motif of staring at a viewscreen rather than through a window carried through to all other races' ships (Romulan, Klingon, etc...). It's a signature element that makes the tech in Star Trek feel like Star Trek. Abandoning that smacks of sort of a culturally illiterate johnny-come-lately attitude about Trek production design and why things were done the way they were.
The franchise can be healthy without believing the new material is "Prime".
In TOS, they are viewscreens. No doubt about it. We even see it turned off.
To be fair to the Discovery and Abrams material, there is no way the folks at the time of TOS could predict that we would be able to have windows and project workable overlays on them.
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