I’m guessing they will never try to reconcile the difference between the Enterprise and Discoprise.
Maybe. Or maybe the series finale will end with the
Enterprise badly damaged but victorious in some kind of cathartic battle, Pike promoted to fleet captain and accepting his fate as he turns command over to James T. Kirk, they talk about the
Enterprise undergoing a refit -- and then the final shot is the USS
Enterprise as it appeared in TOS.
Lots of possibilities!
I am starting to wonder if there is some bad blood behind the scenes, between people working on different shows because some of the current shows have started contradicting EACH OTHER.
TNG, DS9, and VOY had contradictions between each other of the sort you listed, too.
Usually it's not an indication of bad blood. It's an indication of busy professionals with slightly different creative visions who are all trying to make a production deadline.
Also, I imagine that the differences in production processes play a part these days. When it was TNG & DS9 or DS9 & VOY, the writing and production staffs were all based on the same lot, working the same basic shooting schedule. Whereas right now: the writers' rooms and PIC production are based in L.A.; the DIS and SNW productions are in Toronto; the shooting schedules don't always overlap because the shows air more or less consecutively rather than simultaneously; and the production time for animated shows like LD and PROD are usually completely different from the production time for live-action shows. So that probably makes coordination harder on the modern shows than it was in the Berman era.
Edited to add: Oh yeah, and COVID restrictions are still at play that reduce the number of people allowed onto the sets. That's almost certainly also a factor that complicates coordination.
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Example 1: Discovery shows a TOS-accurate Gorn skeleton, and Lower Decks introduces TOS Gorn, but then SNW turns Gorn into Xenomorph ripoffs
That's not bad blood. The first two are just tips of the hat to TOS, and the second is SNW wanting to free its creativity for a modern reinterpretation of the Gorn concept. It's no worse than the ENT Gorn also looking distinctly different from the TOS Gorn.
Example 2: Lower Decks and Prodigy (and Picard, with a skull) use the familiar Ferengi design, while Discovery changes them.
Those changes in DIS are
incredibly minor -- on par with the change between Bajoran makeup as featured in TNG S5 and DS9 S1.
And people working on Prodigy have said that their show will acknowledge all versions of Tellarites as coexisting.
It's almost like there's a lot of diversity in the Tellarite species or something.
Example 6: Picard reconciles the ridged and non ridged Romulan designs as “Northern” and “Southern” Romulans. SNW, in “A Quality of Mercy”, ONLY shows the “Northern” variety for some reason.
They probably wanted to use visual shorthand for an audience mostly familiar with the TNG-style "Northern" Romulans.
Example 7: Discovery and SNW exclusively show their version of the Constitution class, and Prodigy and Picard show the TOS version on displays. (Picard also shows the DSC S2 version in S1)
No more a contradiction than showing both the TOS and TMP versions of the
Constitution class.
No, it's not. War is concerning. Human suffering is concerning. Inconsequential contradictions between minutiae on a few TV shows is perfectly normal.
The shows shouldn’t even be contradicting each other this much.
"This much?" These are all very minor contradictions -- and when it's an illegible set label, I consider that more a "contradiction" than a contradiction -- that are on par with the contradictions that crept into production during the Berman era.
One thing that really got me concerned was that a while ago I was watching a Trekyards video and one of them claimed that “we know people who are working on lower decks who don’t like discovery”. What?! Now I know that Trekyards are not exactly #1 reliable sources all the time
I think you just answered your own question there.
I get that each show is it’s own thing. But maintaining a consistent look when it comes to most things seems like it would be a no doubter.
Maybe. Or maybe Alex Kurtzman values creative freedom over aesthetic consistency. Both are valid creative choices. Every production of
West Side Story doesn't have to replicate Jerome Robbins's choreography, to make a comparison.
