Because Fuller wanted to tell a story that only worked pre-TOS.
Disco's version of TOS/TAS: Differences
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It could still have been set post-TUC and still have been about Sarek's adopted human daughter.
Who said anything about Michael?
Fuller's story was based on an event mentioned in TOS but never seen. So said event didn't happen after TOS.
And that event has never been identified. IMO, it's something Fuller wanted the other writers decided to leave out.
That doesn't change my point.
I'm pretty sure it was Fuller's idea of Klingon/Federation open conflict prior to TOS, which only existed in such sources as FASA RPG manuals.
Because that’s the setting the creators of the show wanted to explore.
Doing so was not without risk (witness all the teeth gnashing over “continuity” and “canon”) but it was their risk to take.
And the fact it gets such a wide variety of reactions from “the fans” is proof that “listening to the fans” is a poor idea.
One had nothing to do with the other. DS9's tribble episode had nothing to do with why ENT's writers made those Augment episodes. And by making those episodes, they contradicted the info from T&T.
I thought Fuller's original idea was to do an anthology, of which TOS would only be a part.
Or better yet, post-TUC, pre-Star Trek '09 Prime Spock's adopted human daughter.
Except that went out the window along with his anthology idea.
Quite true.
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It wasn't a poor idea in 1968...
Fuller said that his event had been mentioned in prior series or movies. So either he's full of shit, or they removed said event from the finished series.
Or you don't understand.........
Understand that the man who wrote the show said it was based around an event mentioned specifically in another Trek series, about ten years prior to TOS, and that we did not get that?
On a show that he was fired from and heavily altered after the fact?
Something obviously changed in production.
The fans are not always right.
If you read the "what would YOU do" threads around here...that becomes painfully obvious.
The fans were not "listened to" in terms of creative advice--nor should they ever be.
That explains Discovery.
No, they absolutely had to do with each other. It was Deep Space Nine that introduced the idea that there was an in-canon explanation as to why they looked different when the audience knew full well that it was simply a design change due to larger budgets allowing for it. Had it not been for this brief exchange in the episode, Enterprise (and perhaps the franchise at large) would not have made any attempt to explain this.
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