Interior-wise, yes, absolutely. Exterior? Meh, not so much, at least not to me. But of course I'm biased because I'm not a fan of John Eaves's aesthetic.
Evidence of SNW being a possible alternate timeline from TOS
Interior-wise, yes, absolutely. Exterior? Meh, not so much, at least not to me. But of course I'm biased because I'm not a fan of John Eaves's aesthetic.
I can respect that.
i still think that strange new worlds is from alternate timeline because most of the stuff thats happened in strange new worlds was kinda never mentioned on the original series
and at the same time most of the characters from strange new worlds kinda was never mentioned on the original series and or they kinda never showed up on the original series
and at the same time most of the characters from strange new worlds kinda was never mentioned on the original series and or they kinda never showed up on the original series
A giant window is pretty dumb when there are so many hostile species out there.
Im guessing we were talking to different people.
Its just a fun discussion. Not all people thought the same way about "in a mirror darkly". It was quite a popular episode.
Most?
Pike: Spock's first captain, shown in an episode.
Una: Pike's first officer, named Number One, and shown.
M'Benga: staff physician in TOS.
George Kirk: mentioned in passing and seen once.
Uhura: regular secondary character on TOS.
Scotty: regular secondary character on TOS.
Spock: main cast on TOS.
Chanel: secondary character on TOS, if not tertiary.
Mitchell: new
La'an: new
Ortegas: new
Pelia: new.
8/12 are in TOS in some way.
The bridge on top is dumb for the same reason. Hasn't stopped STARFLEET at all.
In 79 episodes of the Original Series, how often did they reference past adventures?
In a universe where ships are lobbing antimatter weapons at each other, whether a ship has a window on the bridge makes little difference if the shields go down.
If you're going to complain about a bridge window, I hope you also complain about the bridge being located on top of the saucer instead of deep within the ship.
Absence of evidence isn't evidence of absence. I treat it as an alternate timeline because it has been sixty years and I can't see the characters as presented in SNW evolving into their TOS counterparts.
I would've been far more excited for SNW if it wasn't connected to TOS. That I didn't already know the future of pretty much all the characters I watched from the original show.
They're dealing with weapons of mass destruction. Window or a bulkhead, if the shields are down and you get hit, the only thing left is to count the dead.
The Enterprise-E had a viewscreen, it didn't help in the battle with Shinzon.
You do know the dash-nothing was around for 20 years before TOS started of course things are going to happen to it that aren't going to be brought it in the small windows we get into the character's lives. Maybe if it was a big brother style thing and we saw their 24/7 lives something might come up but it just won't be relevant all the time.
Other shows also have characters they never mention again. TNG went though 4 chief engineers before Geordi and none of them were ever mentioned again.
You can probably count on your fingers the combined references to Wesley, Yar and Pulaski once they're gone.
I still miss Lt. Commander Giotto.
Do you know what a prequel is?
That's not how it works. If those were the rules. Then TWOK takes place in an alternate timeline because Carol*, David and Saavik were never mentioned in TOS.
*Counting down to a mention of the blonde lab tech,
Which was something Andrew Probert tried to fix early in production on TNG until Gene and Bob Justman said the audience needed to have a reference point for the Bridge when they look at the ship.
To say nothing about the Enterprise model in WNMHGB having a visible window on the front of the Bridge.
SNW is the TOS timeline. Just as ENT was the TOS timeline. And so was TNG.
Doesn't matter what we in the audience conjecture are "the rules" in our free time on a message board, it's what the rules set up by the creators say they are.
Doesn't matter what we in the audience conjecture are "the rules" in our free time on a message board, it's what the rules set up by the creators say they are.
And there's always more than enough evidence to dispute these rules so the whole function collapses.
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Once in the wild, it is up to personal interpretation.
And if an alternate timeline WAS created when, say, the "Shockwave" 2-parter of ENT gets that colony destroyed then that just means everything that follows ENT is in the same changed timeline, including TOS.
But some people don't seem to be able to differentiate personal interpretation from declarations of fact. If only more people could just accept how they feel and what they headcanon is just that and only for themselves...
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