That isn't really fair. He did the work, he shouldn't be replaced.
That isn't really fair. He did the work, he shouldn't be replaced.
Do we really need history to repeat itself?
Unfortunately, stuff like this is liable to be wild with AI on the scene. And, it isn't AI's fault. This is purely a human compulsion to rewrite the past.
Do Japan or Germany look like conquered nations?
I get your being funny, but you've pushed me down a rabbit hole. What would a conquered Vulcan look like? Does the fact Spock serves as an equal contradict the notion of a conquered Vulcan?
Let's take Japan or Germany as examples. Anyone see or remember the old Andy Griff show "Salvage 1"?
Salvage 1 was a 1979 ABC science-fiction/comedy series starring Andy Griffith as Harry Broderick, a resourceful junk dealer who runs the "Jettison Scrap and Salvage Co." After realizing the massive amount of expensive equipment left on the moon by Apollo missions, Broderick builds a homemade spaceship from junkyard parts to go retrieve and sell it.
At any rate, the main characters in one episode encounter a marooned Japanese soldier hold out on some tropical island who still thinks the war is ongoing. After being convinced the war ended decades earlier, the soldier is returned to 1979 Japan. His first words on seeing Tokyo are "are you sure we lost?".
Why can't Amok Time depict a conquered Vulcan?
Yeah, I know we discard McCoy's throw away line....
I, too, took this topic to be a bit of fun...
On the other hand, while I understand your point, isn't that what we are being told to do? Canon is irrelevant to a good story? If the writers don't like how something was previously depicted, they can just change it.
I expect this is what will happen and feel this is an appropriate use for AI.
Liable? It already is. Has been for a while. There's a Facebook feed that keeps showing up on my feed where people submit a picture for others to manipulate. Many times the request is to remove an ex from a family photo. AI is making this quicker, easier, and more seductive.
I remember that show!
The vast majority of what happens in any given Star Trek (or Doctor Who or whatever) episode never gets mentioned again anyway, so why bother coming up with an official procedure to specifically say it didn't happen?
Way to kill time on the way to my pressboard coffin?
Well, anything that we discuss here is just fans talking, so there would be nothing "official" about it. However, there have been some times when it has come up among the actual production team. Roddenberry reportedly did not want TFF considered a part of canon.
The biggest reason I could see it coming up is if a future producer wanted to pick up from a certain point and not be tethered to what has already been done beyond that point. For example, if someone wanted to do a series set right after TNG, but didn't want to have to work within the confines of what was defined as happening at that time by DS9 and Voyager. Something like that.
I'd really like to think that a future producer would rather just do something new.
Have you seen anything coming out of Hollywood in the last decade? They don't do "new" anymore.
The streaming Trek era has had plenty of new ideas. Some people didn't like them, but they weren't TNG retreads. Well, except for Picard season 3.
My favourite genre of Star Trek is when they bring back something previously pretty explicitly de-canonized. Like the Transwarp Salamanders in Lower Decks or Sybok in SNW.
It's been happening in officially licensed Trek stuff already to get around clearance issues.Do we really need history to repeat itself?
there have been movies like Project Hail Mary that hopefully are showing the way that movies can still turn in a healthy profit without being part of a franchise. hopefully studios will listen, if for no other reason they've milked all the franchises dry.
I would decanonize Discovery. Strange New Worlds would explicitly be set in an alternate reality of Trek.
I would decanonize Lower Decks, Star Trek Picard. Basically everything released after Star Trek Enterprise except Strange New Worlds.
I would decanonize the Romulan Supernova. Seriously, that thing to me might be the most dislikable thing in Trek.
In my interpretation of Canon, it "ends" after the the signing of the end of the Dominion War. I would love a new series taking place roughly 100, 150 years after the Dominion War, perhaps a new golden era of exploration and innovation happens. The Romulans and Federation may be at peace, perhaps the Klingons have even joined the Federation by that time.
I would decanonize Lower Decks, Star Trek Picard. Basically everything released after Star Trek Enterprise except Strange New Worlds.
I would decanonize the Romulan Supernova. Seriously, that thing to me might be the most dislikable thing in Trek.
In my interpretation of Canon, it "ends" after the the signing of the end of the Dominion War. I would love a new series taking place roughly 100, 150 years after the Dominion War, perhaps a new golden era of exploration and innovation happens. The Romulans and Federation may be at peace, perhaps the Klingons have even joined the Federation by that time.
Project Hail Mary, Backrooms and Obsession would like to say hi.
That's what I was thinking ofDo we really need history to repeat itself?
That's what the popular kids in my high school did
Some of the unpopular kids probably did, too, but nobody was paying any attention to them.
