When it's easy to maintain continuity, I want them to do it. When it's complicated by real-world production issues, I understand that they have to change some things to make it work (actor availability, money, tight schedule, etc.). Like the scenes in AGT that are set in the past using the wrong armrests on the Captain's chair, or Worf's makeup in those scenes.
I can easily ignore continuity breaks that have a simple explanation, like someone having misremembered something, which is only human. Like Kirk saying he met this character only in 2262, when we later see them meet in 2263 as well, because Kirk simply forgot. Or Picard saying that a Klingon disruptor has an output of 47 GW, and later someone else says it's actually just 31, Picard is simply no expert and misremembered. So things characters say can easily mess with continuity and I don't care, because people do say wrong things.
What's presented on screen though is presented as fact within the story. When we see what the USS Lollipop looks like in 2367, and later the same ship is shown in the same time, but looks different, continuity is broken. Someone once said ST is not a radio show, and that's why visuals matter. I do like sound continuity as well, which in pretty much all cases makes no effort to maintain and it yet broken as well sometimes for no reason (Romulan and Klingon alert on SF ships, VOY doorbell on the Disco).
My logical problem with continuity breaks is this: When they change things for no good reason and contradict previous depictions, then one of the presentations is wrong, and as a fan of the previous depictions, I don't want them to basically say: TNG was a lie. The thing you liked in that episode, guess what, never really was that thing. All your books, pictures online, what you saw on screen all these years, it's all false, because we came up with the real thing. Or when Spock says that Vulcan has no moon, and then we see some in TMP, it basically suggests that Spock was lying to Uhura, or doesn't even know his own planet
When something was shown to be like this initially, but different many times later, it's also easier to ignore the discontinuity. Like when DS9 and ENT make it clear that Darwin station should not exist, it's that TNG episode that is 'wrong'. When we saw that one Trill in their first appearance, and all the other Trills in hundreds of later appearances looked different, then that first appearance was wrong and the majority is the correct one.
But we have people here who seriously believe that none of the new Spocks were cast because of their similarities to Nimoy
And La'an being
really calls for more background explanation. As does Una being
and them running into
.
I do like the comics btw, because they are not expected to fit even remotely with the canon stories. In the early ones, Uhura was white and blonde, and Sulu was black, IIRC - one of those 285000 parallel universes
I can easily ignore continuity breaks that have a simple explanation, like someone having misremembered something, which is only human. Like Kirk saying he met this character only in 2262, when we later see them meet in 2263 as well, because Kirk simply forgot. Or Picard saying that a Klingon disruptor has an output of 47 GW, and later someone else says it's actually just 31, Picard is simply no expert and misremembered. So things characters say can easily mess with continuity and I don't care, because people do say wrong things.
What's presented on screen though is presented as fact within the story. When we see what the USS Lollipop looks like in 2367, and later the same ship is shown in the same time, but looks different, continuity is broken. Someone once said ST is not a radio show, and that's why visuals matter. I do like sound continuity as well, which in pretty much all cases makes no effort to maintain and it yet broken as well sometimes for no reason (Romulan and Klingon alert on SF ships, VOY doorbell on the Disco).
My logical problem with continuity breaks is this: When they change things for no good reason and contradict previous depictions, then one of the presentations is wrong, and as a fan of the previous depictions, I don't want them to basically say: TNG was a lie. The thing you liked in that episode, guess what, never really was that thing. All your books, pictures online, what you saw on screen all these years, it's all false, because we came up with the real thing. Or when Spock says that Vulcan has no moon, and then we see some in TMP, it basically suggests that Spock was lying to Uhura, or doesn't even know his own planet
When something was shown to be like this initially, but different many times later, it's also easier to ignore the discontinuity. Like when DS9 and ENT make it clear that Darwin station should not exist, it's that TNG episode that is 'wrong'. When we saw that one Trill in their first appearance, and all the other Trills in hundreds of later appearances looked different, then that first appearance was wrong and the majority is the correct one.
It's just sad that it sometimes turns into 'my head canon is more canon than your head canon!'
At least we have one dedicated thread for it now that we can refer all future discussion to. Oh who am I kidding...Is there an option for Sweet Baby Jesus, Not This Topic Again?
That's what makes many of the recuts funny, in which Picard is the most terrible person you can imagine
When a recast is necessary for good reasons, like age, availability, cost, I want the new ones to resemble the old ones to keep the characters recognizable. (No, "producer says so" is not a good reason. Neither is "because".)
But we have people here who seriously believe that none of the new Spocks were cast because of their similarities to Nimoy
I also hope they explain that, for example, M'Benga has a different shift than McCoy, or something like that. Why a nurse is a commander now would also be interesting to find out
And La'an being
Khan's granddaughter
genetically enhanced as well
the Gorn long before Arena
I do like the comics btw, because they are not expected to fit even remotely with the canon stories. In the early ones, Uhura was white and blonde, and Sulu was black, IIRC - one of those 285000 parallel universes
Same here, it gave me the realization that TNG and TOS really are set in the same world, just at different times.
