Not canon limitations.
Why the hate for Alex Kurtzman?
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Not canon limitations.
So what limitations are you worried about?
Cause if the "Spore Drive" can come into existence and be used, that already breaks most rules for most Trekkies.
Yet even I can find ways to work around it & put in proper reasonable limitations with the existing lore so that it isn't "Too OP" / "Broken".
@Firebird said it pretty good. He's basically the walking exemplification of toxic Trek fandom. He's the worst kinda fan, a gatekeeper. Anything that doesn't fit his idea of what Trek should be, isn't worthy in his eyes of being part of the franchise. He feels that because he worked on some DVD extras and because he made a film with Shatner 25 years ago, that somehow has earned him the right to decide what is and isn't good Star Trek. Which is fine. Everyone is entitled to their own opinions, except he actively looks down and badmouths on a constant basis anything he doesn't like and has made himself a figurehead for those most toxic elements of the fandom.
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Cost and production technology. Those are the only things that should limit the story.
Ah, IC. Then we can choose to not associate with him and move on, right?
So what stories do you think can't be made right now, given all the existing canon staying where it is?
Assuming you do a In-universe time jump into the future, past the end of ST:PIC and the start of the 25th century?
Pick a point in time > Start of the 25th century, and start from there.
Imagine the Fanboy Committee "vetting" TMP. Note one would be "Klingons do not look like that!"
I give Kurtzman Trek a hard time, but the only real decision that "irks" me? Changing the exterior of the Enterprise. I can get around a lot of it, but that just makes it not feel like the 23rd century, to me.
Not that it, in itself, is a bad looking ship. I have the Eaglemoss version on my shelf. But, it isn't my Enterprise.
Dude, this isn't the essay portion of the SAT's.
Which would be great, except the Little Bird of the Galaxy, thy Lord Terry Matalas, gave him exclusive access to Picard season 3, which inflated his ego even more and gave an even bigger voice to those toxic members of the fandom.
The fact that you can have this measured and considered opinion means you would be turned away as a heretic from the canon review board.
That's one of the biggest bummers of season 3 - it gave RMB a platform of relevance again.
My point being that there isn't as many limitations as you think there are.
The future of Trek is far more open ended then you might think.
Even within the confine walls of existing Lore/Canon.
Good for him, I can choose to not associate / watch his stuff on his YT Channel / Network.
I'm of the age that minutiae and associated shit simply aren't important. I want stories that stretch my imagination. Which is why I'm not as into this phase of Trek as I was some of the others. I want this wild, fantastical universe. If it contradicts canon, I don't care.
Ok. How wild/fantastical do you want it to be?
Did you enjoy DISCO in the 32nd century?
Do you want people in StarFleet to be Q-like beings?
I was for it conceptually. I think it got pretty rote, pretty quickly. I bowed out after "Unification III".
It doesn't have to be that. I'm tired of garden variety protagonists/antagonists. I've quit caring about people fighting over lines on a map.
In an *checks notes* entertainment franchise?
Well don't that beat all?
Next you'll tell me Sarek was illogical to expect Spock to all Vulcan when he was born!
Yup. A lesson we could take from the Matrix on the supposed desire for utopia in a simulation and people rejected it. They define their fandom on pain, and misery and complaints than enjoyment.
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I guess I fall in line with the side that is okay with the changes in the SNW Gorn.
It doesn't bother me & I think it gives their species more depth.
Initially, when it appeared that they were trying to follow up on the events of "Calypso" ...which lasted for like one or two episodes, and then they completely changed the format to "32nd century Starfleet that's not all that different from 23rd century Starfleet other than some floating nacelles."
The way SNW changed the Gorn would be something a canon reviewer would've red-pencilled in pitch meetings.
You're not being very consistent here.
Here I thought it was "Post Apocalyptic Time-Line" Universe StarFleet.
Where StarFleet & the UFP is a shell of it's former self due to a Galaxy wide Apocalyptic event.
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