Let it go. it will make life easier. Don't take it so seriously, open your mind.
The reasoning is it's not the 1960s anymore. That's the only reasoning we need.
SNW truly respects TOS continuity!
- Thread starter C.E. Evans
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After this week SNW doesn't just respect TOS continuity but also the continuity of the most disliked TOS Movie.
It's all canon. The characters and events are the same, while the set dressing is close enough.
And that's all that matters. If it doesn't fit, that's fine, treat it as a reboot. It matters very little in the long run because we don't get to say it. Canon is what CBS says it is. That's how it works.
TMP doesn't fit with TOS. So, I treat it as a reboot. Is that correct? Don't know and don't care at this point because it's clear to me that TMP can't be the same ship and characters as TOS. That's how this works, right? *cue multiple justifications for why TMP works and SNW doesn't.*
Best TOS movie.
I don't agree intellectually with that statement, but dammit, I respect the guts behind it and that film's a guilty pleasure for me.
Haven't seen the episode. So I'm guessing The Final Frontier. My anticipation has now doubled.
But apparently not Christine Chapel
"Wink of an Eye" is a reboot, from a certain point of view.
Chapel already sounds quieter and more TOS-like at the end of this episode. So you can't tell me she doesn't turn into TOS Chapel by 2266 and the loss of her fiancee.
That's a fate almost worse than Pike's
Don't make me underwrite you.
Well, as we all know, change only occurs if time moves forward, so people cannot change unless we are shown the linear progression. Being a prequel is not linear progression and therefore they cannot change. That's just logic...
I am surely the millionth person to come up with this, but it's really a lot easier on the brain if you stop treating the shows/movies as documentary footage and start treating them as history, in the way that real history works. Historians are always coming up with new timelines and interpretations of what happened as new evidence comes to light. Star Trek is the accumulated cuneiform and papyrus of this fictional universe.
As in, "One of the earliest tablets, penned by an author writing as S. Bar-David, whom we now know as Shimon Wincelberg, shows Spock claiming to have never engaged in a mind-meld with a human before the incident at Tantalus. But a recently recovered fragment from Perez and DeMayo has Spock melding with La'an Noonien-Singh several years earlier. It is possible that Wincelberg was writing for a Vulcan Isolationist audience...".
We can still try to take canon seriously (as opposed to an MST3K-style, "I should really just relax"), but not sweat the obvious inconsistencies.
As in, "One of the earliest tablets, penned by an author writing as S. Bar-David, whom we now know as Shimon Wincelberg, shows Spock claiming to have never engaged in a mind-meld with a human before the incident at Tantalus. But a recently recovered fragment from Perez and DeMayo has Spock melding with La'an Noonien-Singh several years earlier. It is possible that Wincelberg was writing for a Vulcan Isolationist audience...".
We can still try to take canon seriously (as opposed to an MST3K-style, "I should really just relax"), but not sweat the obvious inconsistencies.
Not just the most disliked TOS movie but one that Gene Roddenberry said was apocryphal to the point it's mentioned in the 1990s editions of the Star Trek Omnipedia/Encyclopedia.
Real life isn't canon. Pretty sure there weren't any Eugenics Wars in the 1990s.Fiction?!? Fiction?!?!? FICTION?!?!
My god, man, it’s all about the canon! If we can’t get that right, why would I even want to live!
Sorry, I mean… NOT TEH CANNNNONNNMN!!!!111!!on30ne!!!!!1
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That's they want you to think...
I was joking. Figured the laughing face would give it away.
I was joking too, I thought that was obvious.
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