Spoilers New Picard TV Series and Litverse Continuity (may contain TV show spoilers)

[F. King Daniel]

Speaking of Prodigy, it's nice we've gotten some datelocks in the episodes over the last few weeks. Prodigy, early 2384, about ~3.5 years after Lower Decks, just over 6 years after "Endgame", and 15 years before Picard. Also, just 3-4 years before the Romulan sun will go. I wonder if the show goes on long enough if they might tie in or at least reference the tragedy or the evacuation efforts or something.

In all the Picard tie-ins, they have him leaving the Enterprise and heading up the Romulan evacuation effort in 2381 (when Destiny occurs in the First Splinter novelverse), so it's game for both Lower Decks ("y'all hear Picard left the Enterprise??") or Prodigy. I kinda doubt they will though, it's not their story and the coming deaths of billions REALLY isn't the tone of either show.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Doesn’t rule out the potential for a cameo from Captain Worf of the Federation starship Enterprise, though.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Doesn’t rule out the potential for a cameo from Captain Worf of the Federation starship Enterprise, though.

Very true. They can show Worf and/or the Enterprise with no mention of the supernova stuff and fit into the worlds of Prodigy or Lower Decks just fine.

 

[Tuskin38]

Speaking of Prodigy, it's nice we've gotten some datelocks in the episodes over the last few weeks. Prodigy, early 2384, about ~3.5 years after Lower Decks, just over 6 years after "Endgame", and 15 years before Picard. Also, just 3-4 years before the Romulan sun will go. I wonder if the show goes on long enough if they might tie in or at least reference the tragedy or the evacuation efforts or something.

Well, we'll at least see the Picard flashback uniforms eventually according to an interview.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Well, we'll at least see the Picard flashback uniforms eventually according to an interview.

I seriously doubt we will. The interview comment was more, "yeah, let's pretend those unis are only in beta quadrant lol" despite us seeing them on Mars and Earth in Picard season one.

Every ship on every show will have it's own uniform and badge now, likely purely for merchandising reasons and at the expense of in-universe plausibility.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Every ship on every show will have it's own uniform and badge now

Ron Tracey will be happy

 

[Tuskin38]

I seriously doubt we will. The interview comment was more, "yeah, let's pretend those unis are only in beta quadrant lol" despite us seeing them on Mars and Earth in Picard sea

I mean, that’s not what he said. But ok.

Also earth is in the beta quadrant. And Alpha.

 

[Paul Weaver]

Also earth is in the beta quadrant. And Alpha.

If the line does go through our Sun, then for 6 months a year it's in Beta, and 6 months it's in Alpha.

We know different areas of Starfleet can have different uniforms at the same time -- see when DS9 had the coloured shoulders and TNG didn't. Or see when they had a mix of uniforms on the same ship in Generations. We've seen it in Discovery too, with the mix of the Discovery Blue uniforms and the Enterprise traditional colours

 

[Enterprise1701]

Also earth is in the beta quadrant. And Alpha.

Nah, I don't take that kind of storytelling to be useful or plausible.

 

[Tuskin38]

Nah, I don't take that kind of storytelling to be useful or plausible.

Sounds perfectly plausible to me

We’ve already seen starfleet use multiple duty uniforms based on assignment in DS9

 

[The Wormhole]

Nah, I don't take that kind of storytelling to be useful or plausible.

What's so implausible about it? The maps I've seen place the Sol system right on the border of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants, so Earth can indeed be said to be in both the Alpha and Beta Quadrant. Unless the Galactic Postal Service has a rule saying Earth must be listed in one or the other for jurisdictional reasons, I'm not sure what the issue is. Even if there were some sort of rule, they could always just go the route of making the Sol system it's own jurisdiction, just like how Washington DC is its own thing and not part of any of the surrounding States.

 

[David cgc]

What's so implausible about it?

It's like saying the line dividing the Eastern and Western Hemispheres should bisect a populated and politically influential area, leaving us with a nonsense cartographical distinction that's frequently used incorrectly because it doesn't usefully correspond to political or geographic reality. And that'd just be screwy.

 

[Mike Doyle]

It's like saying the line dividing the Eastern and Western Hemispheres should bisect a populated and politically influential area, leaving us with a nonsense cartographical distinction that's frequently used incorrectly because it doesn't usefully correspond to political or geographic reality. And that'd just be screwy.

Like Greenwhich? In London?

Yeah that would be crazy.

 

[Tuskin38]

Season 2 Episode 1. There is a series of displays for retired/destroyed Starships, and one of them is the Excelsior. It gives Styles the full name of 'Lawrence H. Styles'

The first name Lawrence first appeared in the FASA Star Trek 3 Sourcebook, but the middle initial 'H.' was given in Excelsior: Forged in Fire.

https://twitter.com/DaveBlass/status/1501055817088335873/photo/3

The ship left service in 2320, which contradicts its destruction in TLE: One Constant Star
Though One Constant Star also contradicts it being active in 2320 in a previous novel 'Burning Dreams'

 

[Mike Doyle]

Two Luna class ships with matching registries from the First Splinter. USS Luna NCC 80101 and USS Europa NCC 80104.

 

[Tuskin38]

There 3 Luna classes on Dave Blass's chart, but only 2 show up in the episode. It's possible the third was cut or off screen.

Two Luna class ships with matching registries from the First Splinter. USS Luna NCC 80101 and USS Europa NCC 80104.

The Luna didn't make into the episode, only the Europa and Oberon.

It will show up on a display in Season 3 possibly, if the scene isn't cut.

 

[Leto_II]

"Excelsior Class Starship - In Service 2285-2320"
"Captain Hikaru Sulu was given command of the Excelsior in 2287 [...]"
"Captain Sulu remained in command of the Excelsior for over 30 years [...]"
"[...] with Captain Uhura remaining in command until her retirement in 2333."

...Ouch.

 

[F. King Daniel]

One of the little background plaques at Starfleet Academy gives Uhura a post-STVI captaincy. That said, not visible at all in the episode so about as canon as Hoshi's death on Tarsus IV.

 

[Enterprise1701]

Huh. So the Kurtzman team's mindset is that Voyager never returned to duty after completing the famous mission?

I guess I could see Starfleet exploiting the PR opportunity for a must-see museum exhibit, but that still surprises me given the active-duty storytelling opportunities lost.

 

[David cgc]

Huh. So the Kurtzman team's mindset is that Voyager never returned to duty after completing the famous mission?

That's not an uncommon interpretation (and IIRC, was implied in the alternate future in "Endgame," though in that case, the ship had a lot more miles on it).

I notice the part about the Enterprise-D's saucer being retrieved and put on display in a museum, which contradict "The Return" and "Ship of the Line," which had it disassembled after the crash and, in the latter case, parts of it recycled into the -E.