1st episode in three weeks, where I did not fall asleep half way through.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x08 - "Four-And-A-Half Vulcans"
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The twist is that Guy fell asleep only ten minutes in this time.
What contradictions?
Losing at darts to O'Brien.
Racket ball too?
(this is from memory, how many times have I seen the pilot?)
In the pilot he mistook a pre ganglionic fiber for a post ganglionic nerve, and slightly missed out on becoming valedictorian.
Years later Julian admitted that he took a dive, making the simple error on purpose because he had to seem human and fallible to avoid attention.
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Except we've accepted for decades that the people who actually create the shows, have the sole authority to add or change the background of the characters with anything they feel is appropriate, which means our personal headcanon doesn't really mean squat.
So you're trying to apply a rational that hasn't been part of our experience of Star Trek since pretty much the beginning.
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Thinking about it some more, I am more interested in what their end game is with La’An and Pellea. I still say think this is an alternate time line and the events of the original series can’t take place as we originally saw them. Every one of them knew La’An Noonien-Singh. Even if they kill her off or she changes her name and goes to live on some backwater planet or she goes to work for Section 31, they all still know La’An, whose surname is notorious enough to cause comment wherever she goes, whose inherited Augment status is well known, and who was romantically interested in Prime Kirk and has mind melded with and is currently sleeping with Spock. When Space Seed comes up, how do they all not remember La’An?
She's obviously no longer on the Enterprise by the time of Space Seed (and probably hasn't been for quite some time), so why would anybody bring her up.
Also, they had their hands full just dealing with Khan, I doubt there was time for a conversation about a past crew member.
(though it's probably safe to assume that she was on Kirk & Spock's minds, but neither wanted to bring it up)
He said he had to fake being slightly less capable on things in order to not be found out. But hey he became a chief medical officer in his 20s. So that right there says he was exceptional.
Adding background to a character requires retroactive explanations and justifications. Some are done with more grace than others. It's not impossible to do, but best avoided.
WTH? Smile Time was one of the best episodes of Angel the Series!
True. I think the Bashir one worked out excellently.
Disagree.
Julian was salutatorian that year, fresh out of the academy, on this first frontier posting, where he was the only medical officer administering to a staff of initially, before the wormhole was discovered, of 20 Starfleet personnel stationed at go no were bullshit backwater thirdrate civilization, who was only ever going to be an embarrassing resource suck for the Federation.
Julian graduated from medical school at 27, so he was doing SOMETHING right....genetic enhancements or not.
Roddenberry and Justman were there from the beginning and once Coon showed up it stabilized pretty quickly.
In the 24th Century that means you're behind the curve. Most are doing brain surgery at 15.
Not based on Wesley spending half his time on the 1701-D working on handheld tractor beams and wearing awkward sweaters. 
Those sweaters are hand made. Wes has advanced degrees in textiles and weavingNot based on Wesley spending half his time on the 1701-D working on handheld tractor beams and wearing awkward sweaters.
Of basic writing, yes.
Writers can come in and change things later, "retrocon" is used for things like that.
Retcon, but close enough.
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