Most authors agree that it's pretty important for stories!
a character I would like to see return in Strange New Worlds
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Star Trek has been hit and miss and it's hardly the most important thing in a story for me. Certainly not worthy of being hailed or deferred to.
But, I guess for every JRR Tolkien there's a Christopher who recalls the eye color but skips the character stuff.
You don't make a good story by figuring out what the most important thing is and then half-assing everything else.
As a seasoning, not the whole recipe. The story at hand should take precedence over canonical minutia.
The most important thing is characters and the stories their in, not minutia of eye or door color.
As Doctor Who showrunner Russell T Davies said in his book The Writer's Tale, if it comes down to a choice between serving the story or serving continuity, serving the story should win every time. If you have to abandon continuity to serve the story, then abandon continuity.
And as former Doctor Who producer Terrance Dicks once said, "continuity is only whatever I can remember."
And as former Doctor Who producer Terrance Dicks once said, "continuity is only whatever I can remember."
When Terrance Dicks was writing Doctor Who, that was true for the fans as well, as there was no internet, no home video releases, and the BBC apparently repeated two or three stories a year. I wasn't born back then, but I imagine the flaws are a bit more obvious than they used to be.
And Russell T Davies would put serving the story above serving internal logic or a sense of consistent reality. He's moved on from ending a story with a farting alien in a skin suit trying to blow up the Earth so she can escape on a surfboard and is now writing stories about singing goblins flying around in a magic boat stealing babies. The dude can write a hell of a story when he's in the zone but he's not necessarily someone you want to emulate.
And Russell T Davies would put serving the story above serving internal logic or a sense of consistent reality. He's moved on from ending a story with a farting alien in a skin suit trying to blow up the Earth so she can escape on a surfboard and is now writing stories about singing goblins flying around in a magic boat stealing babies. The dude can write a hell of a story when he's in the zone but he's not necessarily someone you want to emulate.
The were just as obvious as they are now.
They were.
And as I've seen posted around here before, nitpicking and demanding perfection is apparent a fans solemn duty.
I know in the movie they made Sybok look older than Spock but as a full Vulcan who was said to be raised together with Spock as brothers, he should be in his 60s which for a Vulcan is pretty young (that's the age range T'Pol was at in Enterprise). Spock should look older than Sybok due to being half-human or the Genesis project overaging him (The Deadly Years would probably indicate towards the latter as Spock didn't visibly age despite also being hit with the age acceleration disease)
Spock's hair starts to go gray and skin wrinkles in The Deadly Years.
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It'd be fun if it were just an episode about T'Pring that didn't feature the Enterprise crew at all. Bonus points if they put Ethan Peck in a terrible wig and fake beard combo to play Sybok.
I wouldn't mind seeing Sybok as an associate of Dr Sevrin, but they go their separate ways after a major disagreement on the meaning of some obscure bit of lore or translation; one that sends Sevrin towards the Eden planet, and Sybok towards Sha Ka Ree.
Would love to see the two doctors doing an investigation.
Sybok laughs at Sevrin's ears and is sent packing.
I know how you feel, Spock.
ST Ii: TWoK has Chekov remembering an encounter between himself and Khan that couldn't have occurred as Chekov wasn't an Enterprise crewmember in TOS S1.
^^^
Given that (and other plot elements you could pilot a Starship through); it's still hailed as the best TOS cast Trek film.
Moral: Never let continuity hamper a good story.
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