This is a fictional world not a history. It isn't about truth. You want truth? Study history and philosophy.
Poll Ethan Peck's Spock
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A fictional world should have a history.
I must be missing something? Doppelgänger?
And Star Trek does. It's inconsistent and has been depending on what writers can remember.
A history that is often rewritten. Because that’s the nature of fiction.
Okay.
It's true anyway.
Nothing in Star Trek's narrative is "truth." It's entirely made-up.
We call that a retcon and people don't like it.
There's no obligation to like it.
Some people don't. Most viewers take minutiae in stride.
Hell, even real world history gets rewritten when we learn new things and gain new context for events.
Just look at Troy.
So in real life later canon rewrites previous canon?
That never made any sense. Vulcans are not born with logic, its not an innate genetic trait, its something learned. So him reverting to a barbaric Vulcan did not make any sense unless the machine stripped away his Vulcan logic, regardless of what time they ended up in.
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In real life knowledge is added.
And we're not learning anything new in stories?
That really didn't make any sense. Even if it was a genetic trait he wouldn't have lost it by going back in time and they weren't processed by the machine or else they would've died when they came back.
It's different in fiction because of retcons. In history, it is additional information lost to us that we go back and can study and verify and see works differently, again like Troy or the Hittites.
Fiction is mutable.
Fiction has something similar, it's called a prequel.
You're being exposed to more made-up stuff. You will not learn any actual truth that overrules previously mistaken beliefs about reality.
The difference between fiction and reality, between storytelling and history is simple enough to understand.
It's not the same.
History is an entirely different study. Expecting fiction to be like history is setting up for disappointment.
In fiction you can have different actors, and set dressings, and costuming and build towards an entertaining story. You can ignore the facts because the goal is not truth but entertainment.
