Interesting.
Wasn't TOS Budget considered "Shoe String" for it's day, or was it "Expensive"?
Spoilers (Somewhat minor spoilers) Guys, Lower Decks has NOT decanonized Discovery. Or SNW.
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But they take more pride in precision. 99.999999% of the time
She's doing the same job in the same department.
Mistakes cause contradictions.
On the expensive end actually.
McCoy scans a surgically-altered Klingon in TOS and recognizes they're Klingon from their vital readings, but 26 years later in TUC he doesn't know Klingon anatomy. McCoy is the best surgeon and CMO in Starfleet, except when he needs to not be to drive the plot.
Depends on how misleading they're trying to be without outright lying.But they take more pride in precision. 99.999999% of the time
So did Worf at the end of TNG season 1. He handled communications wearing red for a few episodes before switching to gold.
And yet people still manage to watch the show.
How did they all tolerate that contradictory drek?
He was the jack of all trades then. Slotted in where needed.
Worf switched to gold because his position changed. He went from bridge filler officer to chief of security.
And sadly he was made to job to every new "Alien of the Week" to make them look good, and didn't get redemption until ST:PIC S3.
After Skin of Evil he was the ship's acting chief of security, replacing Yar (who wore gold), but he continued wearing red for three more episodes - longer than Uhura wore gold.
Another mistake. He should have been in gold for those three episodes if he was officially given that position.
Our knowledge of how Starfleet operates comes from examples like this.
always took it to mean he met him, when he was the age kirk is NOW.
That's how I remembered it as well, but I checked the script and it says:
I suppose it is a little ambiguous, like he's describing how he would've remembered him.
It's very awkwardly written.
And the description of it is sound like Mendez is describing Pike's age now; that he's about Kirk's age. I can't imagine why Mendez would describe Kirk's meeting Pike at a certain age.
Growing up I always assumed Pike and Kirk were close in age, but now one can interpret the line to mean "about your age" when he was Captain of the Enterprise, which he was during "The Cage."
exactly - since he's not big, vital, handsome or active anymore, either. He was describing him at the promotion moment to trigger Kirk's memory.
Add/Edit - Especially since we are seeing quite a difference in age between Mount-Pike and Barely-Kirk, i forget the name. the guy thats a blend between Jim Carrey and James Cawley. lol.
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The conversation makes no sense. Why would Mendez need to describe what Pike looked like to Kirk at the time of the command hand over? Kirk was the one there. And the handover only took place a couple of years back. Pike would not be "about Kirk's age" at that time. He's have at least a decade on him. The only time Pike would have about Kirk's age would be on the mission to Talos.
