My own theory is that Spock (and others) who have gone back into the past sent ripple effects into the future which explains why the Gorn look and act the way they do, the uniforms are slightly different, the ships (including Enterprise) look somewhat more advanced, etc while basic canon remains the same.
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Though I wonder if that's what happened or they just googled for an emblem.
It's the primary emblem on Memory-Beta since before Prodigy and SNW aired, so they may have also grabbed it from there.
Picard Season 1 used a Fan made Betazoid emblem, which has also migrated to a couple of other official productions now. STO has used a fan made Gorn emblem since launch.
Ex Astris Scientia - The History of the Betazoid Emblem
How a fandom design for the Betazed emblem accidentally became canon
www.ex-astris-scientia.org
Probably both. I'm sure there are some very knowledgeable people on staff who know their stuff about Trek history (I can't see them knowing about the Loknar class Titan any other way), and there are people who simply Google Trek references to get the info they need. Unfortunately for the latter, sometimes they don't actually take the context of their information into account. For example, in PIC season 3 Dave Blass needed to know the registry number for the Nebula class USS Lexington from DS9. However, he just grabbed the NCC-30405 registry from the Memory Alpha listing for the Lexington listed on an Okudragram from TNG's "Measure of a Man" (which was not meant to be the same ship.) So now thanks to that little mistake, we have a Nebula class ship with a number far too low for it.
There was also the interesting (and likely accidental) use of Franz Joseph's original UFP logo (with the two faces on either side of the starfield) that was used in an early season of DSC, which apparently caused a bit of a kerfuffle.
And then there was the (more likely intentional) use of Eaglemoss-like Federation-class dreadnaught models in Guinan's bar in PIC S2. They new that FJ-originating art design is off limits (especially after the DSC shitstorm). I don't believe the official statement for a second that it was a "completely different class of ship", or whatever spin control nonsense that was said of that stripe.
Still always great to see such things, though.
And then there was the (more likely intentional) use of Eaglemoss-like Federation-class dreadnaught models in Guinan's bar in PIC S2. They new that FJ-originating art design is off limits (especially after the DSC shitstorm). I don't believe the official statement for a second that it was a "completely different class of ship", or whatever spin control nonsense that was said of that stripe.
Still always great to see such things, though.
Sure it is, just like how the Sombra class is completely different from the Connie.
I suspect that's just because they wanted the freedom to show blown-up Connie's (probably for the sole purpose of making episode trailers to fool fans into thinking the Enterprise went foom) without actually blowing them up on-screen and messing up TOS's "there are 12 others like her in the fleet" continuity.
[McCoy] Damn clever, if you ask me. [/McCoy]
Showing Not Enterprises getting blowwed up real good is a Trek Tradition.I suspect that's just because they wanted the freedom to show blown-up Connie's (probably for the sole purpose of making episode trailers to fool fans into thinking the Enterprise went foom) without actually blowing them up on-screen and messing up TOS's "there are 12 others like her in the fleet" continuity.
[McCoy] Damn clever, if you ask me. [/McCoy]
Well, I did say blown-up Connie's (as in, not the Enterprise) and it really wouldn't make sense to show an ostensibly plot-armored Enterprise blown-up so soon into SNW's run so... 
They want to learn ever little piece of canon their is. So they can break even canon they don't know about!
Just agree with you. Showing a ship that looks like the hero ship getting destroy or damaged in a trailer is teasing 101.Well, I did say blown-up Connie's (as in, not the Enterprise) and it really wouldn't make sense to show an ostensibly plot-armored Enterprise blown-up so soon into SNW's run so...
Understood. 
Slightly related, I know a guy who got bent out of shape when SNW revealed the Farragut was not Constitution class, since the Enterprise model kit released in the 1970s included a list of all twelve Connies, which included the Farragut.I suspect that's just because they wanted the freedom to show blown-up Connie's (probably for the sole purpose of making episode trailers to fool fans into thinking the Enterprise went foom) without actually blowing them up on-screen and messing up TOS's "there are 12 others like her in the fleet" continuity.
Likewise he got pretty upset over the Cayuga being revealed to be a Connie, as that was not on the fabled list from the 1970s.
Oh, there were people mad that the TOS-style U.S.S. New Jersey in Season 3 of PIC was a Connie.
Oh, there were people mad that the TOS-style U.S.S. New Jersey in Season 3 of PIC was a Connie.
Just anther perfect majestic moment from Picard season 3. We were so blessed to have such a visionary human GOD making that season!
I decided to quit these forums a while back because I was sick of the negativity... from me. I was getting annoyed with the choices Star Trek had been making and it was really starting to show in my replies, so I decided to walk away.
But then maybe a year later I saw that TOS Connie in Picard s3 and I was so damn happy that I logged in again just so I could talk to other people who understood and gave a damn about what it meant. It sucks if not everyone was happy to see it there, but it was 100% the correct choice as far as I'm concerned.
But then maybe a year later I saw that TOS Connie in Picard s3 and I was so damn happy that I logged in again just so I could talk to other people who understood and gave a damn about what it meant. It sucks if not everyone was happy to see it there, but it was 100% the correct choice as far as I'm concerned.
It's not that anyone was upset to see an original interpretation of Constitution class on screen again. It's that a certain element of the fandom took it as the gospel truth and proof positive that other shows were not part of the same continuity.
They became absolutely obnoxious about it. It's pretty much ground zero for the birth of The Cult of Terry.
They immediately started beating people over the head with the USS New Jersey, to the point it ruined any joy I had with seeing an Original Constitution, a ship I adore. I'll never forgive The Cult for taking that from me.
Now I have “She Sells Sanctuary “ in my head.
I know which Cult I prefer.HotRod's post didn't do that to me, but yours sure as hell did.
