Spoilers The Roddenberry Archive brings every iteration of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise bridge to life

[137th Gebirg]

I don't have to fret about its canonicity or not. Seems pretty clear to me.

It's sanctioned by Paramount. It has the actual characters (or highly accurate representations thereof) and original actors supporting it. It's on a physical screen and not in a novel or comic book.

It's canon and it's wonderful!

And I enjoyed it tremendously!

 

[Haggis and tatties]

^^This little movie will make watching Generations not so bad now.

And i am sure a lot of other people will be very happy indeed with it, took 30 years, but their wish has now come true, but my friends, we've come home.

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[1001001]

Jesus, people, just enjoy it for what it is, and stop bitching about whether it’s canon or not. OTOY made this wonderful tribute and you’re all arguing semantics

Is this your first day here?

 

[Tomalak]

^^This little movie will make watching Generations not so bad now.

And i am sure a lot of other people will be very happy indeed with it, took 30 years, but their wish has now come true, but my friends, we've come home.

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That's a real blast from the past!

 

[captainkirk]

I think what truly gets to me about the short are the looks they exchange at the end. Part of the reason I'm never normally a fan of these types of things is because it usually feels like a lifeless mask being puppeted around. But here, it was like I could hear everything they were saying, even though there was no dialog.

 

[fireproof78]

Schrodinger's canon. Unless SFA writers make a story where Kirk is resurrected in 32nd century, which is probably unlikely. Maybe a hologram? No idea.

Rule of enjoyment: even if it contradicts, as canon does in Trek all the time, it doesn't negate enjoyment.


Canon will not equal enjoyment. There are a ton of canon stories I find completely insufferable and stories that are not canon I prefer. So it goes.

 

[Tallguy]

"First they said that TAS was not canon. I did not say anything because I did not like TAS..."

 

[fireproof78]

And then Abrams deleted my whole TAS collection.

 

[Saul]

When I search for the Unification video on YT I can find it but if I go to OTOY on YT I can't find it. Why is it not showing up on it's video list?

 

[137th Gebirg]

I noticed that too. Lots of behind-the-scenes clips - which is cool in-and-of itself - but not the full vid.

 

[Daedalus]

Yep, same for me. It's very odd.

 

[fireproof78]

When I search for the Unification video on YT I can find it but if I go to OTOY on YT I can't find it. Why is it not showing up on it's video list?

Might not be set to be searched for. Just to be shared.

 

[137th Gebirg]

Wasn't searching. Looked at all the videos listed in their channel. Not there.

 

[Dukhat]

So after taking a day to process what I saw (and with a little help from some other posters' replies), I think I've figured out what's going on here. Jules can correct me if I'm wrong

During the events of PIC season 3, we find out that Section 31 stole Kirk's body from Veridian III and was storing it at Daystrom Station. By the late 25th/early 26th century, technology was available to bring Kirk back to life, but only from the point where he died, and only for a short while. Kirk is then taken to the Enterprise-J, where he 'awakens' and thinks he is in some sort of afterlife. He meets Saavik, Sorak (Spock's son), an old Wesley Crusher, and descendants of his friends and family. He then meets Yor, who gives him the ability to travel to the 23rd century of the Kelvin Timeline, where Kirk is able to reunite with the dying Prime Spock (but not before Kirk is in 'limbo' where he sees past versions of himself a la 2001 A Space Odyssey.) They both look off into the sunset (the implication being that they have now both died), the same sunset created by the sun which Gary Mitchell now hovers in front of, observing it all...

 

[Tallguy]

Wasn't searching. Looked at all the videos listed in their channel. Not there.

Meaning that it doesn't show up in YouTube. You need the link.

 

[Commander K]

Wonder how long this took to make, assuming quite a while, which means we won't be seeing things like this a few times a year, once a year at best

 

[137th Gebirg]

We're still waiting for "Axanar" after over a decade. Something new (and good) once or a few times a year is perfectly acceptable.

 

[Tomalak]

So after taking a day to process what I saw (and with a little help from some other posters' replies), I think I've figured out what's going on here. Jules can correct me if I'm wrong

During the events of PIC season 3, we find out that Section 31 stole Kirk's body from Veridian III and was storing it at Daystrom Station. By the late 25th/early 26th century, technology was available to bring Kirk back to life, but only from the point where he died, and only for a short while. Kirk is then taken to the Enterprise-J, where he 'awakens' and thinks he is in some sort of afterlife. He meets Saavik, Sorak (Spock's son), an old Wesley Crusher, and descendants of his friends and family. He then meets Yor, who gives him the ability to travel to the 23rd century of the Kelvin Timeline, where Kirk is able to reunite with the dying Prime Spock. They both look off into the sunset (the implication being that they have now both died), the same sunset created by the sun which Gary Mitchell now hovers in front of, observing it all...

That's basically how I see it, if we are looking for a rational explanation.

But there's obviously a bit more to it than that - such as the three Kirks scene. I guess you could interpret this as Kirk's voyage back through time, a bit like the trippy sequence in The Voyage Home.

 

[Dukhat]

I updated my post a bit. Sure, I think there are multiple ways to interpret this, and I'm not saying that my interpretation is the 'correct' one, just that that's what I got out of it

 

[Airmandan]

That was damn good and mind bending. The fact that they brought back Gary Lockwood and de-aged him is fucking cool. I saw David Blass was part of the production for this, I wonder if he can use this stuff as proof of concept for pushing new show ideas to Paramount.

The fact that they can make such spectacular short video with barely any dialog is a testament to their quality. So much communicated by facial expressions and glances says a huge amount