Star Trek Picard is not Star Trek
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That's a pretty well-executed dodge. But a dodge nonetheless.
This isn't the topic to discus discovery, but it has violated prior canon far too many times. It is not just a general lack of the feel Gene was going for, but ignoring prior canon. Reboots can do that, but canon following extensions cannot.
You've never actually watched Star Trek have you?
Great Brophy's eyeballs, this thread is hitting 50 pages.
And is showing it's age.
I have my issues with DSC and continuity but at least it references lots of TOS Era and ENT Era minutae. No Trek series has avoided screwing up continuity and making it embarrassing for the Encyclopedia and Chronology writers to have to rationalize away and correct those mistakes so that it all more or less lines up.
Come on, they and us live for rationalizations!
I just head canon'ed this forum away as a Pon Farr fever dream. 
The Ent MU episodes were some of the coolest Trek episodes in the franchise and were far from irrelevant or pointless. You are probably thinking this because they had no relationship to the Ent PU. That was by design, and is part of what made the Ent MU unique in ways that TNG, DS9, and even DSC, could only dream of.
Ent even changed up the opening credits and music. The MU episodes were going to have their own storylines. In almost every way, it was meant to stand on it’s own as a completely separate show. Manny Coro was quoted saying that they had no intention of ever crossing the MU episodes with Ent’s PU.
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Koon-ut-kal-if-fee!I just head canon'ed this forum away as a Pon Farr fever dream.
"In A Mirror Darkly, Parts I and II(ENT)" were not only a sequel to "The Tholian Web(TOS)" but a prequel to both the TOS and DS9 Mirror Universe episodes as well as DSC's Mirror Universe arc. That storyline weaves together no fewer than four of the eight existing Trek series.
How?
What does this even mean? What feel was Gene going for?
Every Star Trek series has ignored prior canon, some have even ignore their own canon, Do you consider Enterprise Star Trek? Because all the accusations you are throwing Discovery's way were also hurled at Enterprise
Hey, did anybody ever say how they ended up changing it? Enterprise (CV-6) had a much better career than Yorktown (CV-5). I suppose it could have been that simple.
Quite right.
Wrath of Khan, Conspiracy, and more. But this is a product of the difference between TV in 1990 and TV in 2020. We saw blood in TOS and many other things here and there. This series isn't exactly full of it.
Yeah, there have been dark episodes. And I haven't even seen most of DS9, Voyager, or Enterprise. And the Children Shall Lead was certainly dark. So was Miri. TNG less so. But we had conspiracies in TNG and DS9 and some pretty twisted scientists in TOS.
I disagree. The Inner Light was a probe and it found the perfect host in Picard. This show is exploring the real Picard. The one who would resign if the Federation and Star Fleet abandoned a rescue he felt was right. This show is all about Picard and his ideals. The very ideas Gene wrote into the character. Sure, the stories are darker and they are exploring corners of the Federation we have not seen. Refugee worlds. The Romulan Diaspora. But Picard has hired two Rumulans. He is friends with Romulans. He has followed Spock's dream and extended his hand to them. And this story is about following Data's trail. Data dreamed of more like himself and he would have been sad at what they produced and how many and how they used them. This is exploring a lot of things that the Federation got wrong. Not the first time. There is a list of times the Federation got it wrong and changed course.
I don't see how. Absolutely everything he has done is totally in keeping with his character and the ideas I expected to see. Sure some things in the Federation are not quite right (not the first time) and there is an undercover enemy at work (again, not the first time) and they are in the seedy underbelly of the frinnges of the Federation (that is the first time, though we have met many individuals from this realm, like Mudd, Jones, and quite a later.
Probably just a personal preference.
Nope, TOS, It was enhanced in TNG, but it was there in TOS.
I have watched TOS on repeat for years. TNG to a lesser extent. As Picard draws from TNG except for a few things, I think I have some knowledge about Star Trek. I have literally been watching it my whole life.You've never actually watched Star Trek have you?
To some extent yes, but it has always been little things. The sort of things they get wrong making movies. There are plenty of examples of where a film or episode has violated its own canon. But Discovery has taken that to a new level. Again, not the place to discus it.
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