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Is the bridge at a funny angle?

So are the nacelle struts straight or angled?

Angled in the time periods depicted on DSC and spin-offs and probably during the original visit to Talos IV also. As for the rest we just don’t know (yet), unless we explicitly switch to a POV behind-the-scenes, where it is clear what one production or another did.
 
I wonder if the Enterprise is an Autobot or Decepticon?!

Eaves’ comments on the redesign suggest they expected the ship to be refit by the time of TOS, apparently disregarding its similar appearance in “The Cage”, so it’s quite likely we’ll see straight pylons by the end of SNW.
 
Eaves’ comments on the redesign suggest they expected the ship to be refit by the time of TOS, apparently disregarding its similar appearance in “The Cage”, so it’s quite likely we’ll see straight pylons by the end of SNW.

Or TOS and SNW are simply two separate timelines (shows). No matter how much CBS uses TOS to peddle its current wares, the world and TV are decidedly different animals than they were in 1969.
 
The “shtick” here is to end the discussion, to help bring this issue to a rousing finale, especially since it has gone on for not just 45 pages but also fifty years or so.
Again, know the room. What makes you think that people who've been participating in this thread for 45 pages are looking to bring it to an end?
 
How am I challenging a premise which nobody has bothered to clarify in the title? The “shtick” here is to end the discussion, to help bring this issue to a rousing finale, especially since it has gone on for not just 45 pages but also fifty years or so. The fun is in looking for ways to do that. While we may never find out what Matt Jefferies was thinking at the time, at least we can use DSC, Short Treks and eventually SNW to answer the question in canonical terms, bringing that part of the issue to a close.

But instead I’m getting answers here that suggest not even that should work, because it’s DSC, a different forum, so why am I talking about it in a TOS forum? Are we saying The Trek BBS isn’t interested in the franchise view of continuity, where TOS is just one show among many, increasingly constrained by whatever the latest iterations choose to do? Those are not just for different forums but also different age groups?? I thought we were all Star Trek fans, free to engage with everyone on how a particular iteration should fit or be improved, rather than split into factions to minimize friction.

I watch everything so I can say what I think in forums appropriate to the individual parts of the overall continuity, without thinking for one second that the shows I have issues with somehow “don’t apply”. If I did that I wouldn’t be talking about Star Trek at all, because what goes into Star Trek is not up to me. So either let’s discuss this from all aspects or simply retitle the topic “Did Matt Jefferies ever intend a funny angle for the bridge?” or “Is the bridge at a funny angle in TOS independent of the franchise?” I don’t see much point to the latter, but at least it would clarify that the question is about a hypothetical vision “free” of the latest continuity.

Okay…

You have already earned two warnings for this exact same behavior. But stupid me, I gave you the chance to pull up and stop derailing this thread. What the hell was I thinking?

You’ve earned another warning for trolling and for ignoring moderator instructions. Again. Comments to PM.

I would really encourage you to think about whether or not you’d like to continue being a member here. Because the way you’re headed you won’t be for long.

You’ve also earned another reply ban, so this doesn’t happen here again.

Now that is the end of the discussion.
 
you could have a different thread discussing whether or not TOS is set in the 2260s or even the 23rd century.

Still another thread could debate circumstances surrounding Cochrane’s invention of space warp, totally disregarding the events in FC.

Insomuch as I just watched both "Space Seed," and "Metamorphosis" recently, I actually gave some thought to starting threads on both these topics.

I once commented that I felt that, if the show might have been in 2196 but was then "moved" to be officially placed in 2266, it would be good to move Khan 70 years later, too, to 2066. Also, moving McGivers 2018 comment forward to 2088. In that case, warp drive could still have been invented in 2063, and would have taken 25 years to become common, and Khan would have fled during that time period. It is really interesting to consider. Even early TNG could seem to fit with this, but then the years got more formalized, it seems not to be so now.
 
With the Respeecher they used for the deep fake young Luke Skywalker…a future remaster could redo all the dates…stardates…get it in order
 
Eh. Just leave them all alone. Even DSC's are out of order and don't make sense. Until the 24th century any stardates outside the Kelvin Timeline movies that employed the actual year and a decimal point are just a general ballpark for when an episode or film takes place and kind of tricky to convert into Earth dates.
 
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