Poll Do you consider Discovery to truly be in the Prime Timeline at this point?

And I really hope they aren't trying the "searching for something to give his life purpose" angle. That was already covered in Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

 

I know.

V'ger was 93 miles long, in pain, the biggest physical personification of angst that ever lived. Ex Machina the novel implied every telepathic being in the Milky Way felt it's pain.

 

Was it the Bells, I thought it was one of the Gongs???
Like what he hit when they first got to the arena.

 

I read that book, though remember very little of it.

 

It looked like the bells that are being shaken in "Amok Time", but I could be wrong.

 

What? No. It goes deeper.

 

It's good. It's like political/religious/military etc commentary and fanwank managed to have a pretty healthy child. It's not bad for character development either.

 

Is there any thing to imply those bells are only for Pon Farr ceremony?

 

About 25%-ish different

 

Which is still 75% pure suculant prime ste...universe.

That went wrong somewhere.

 

You're right I went back and did a better look, it's the Bells.

 

To be honest I wish it would become it's own continuity. That way we wouldn't have all these discussions about canon and the writers won't have to worry about contradicting future stories.

 

Or everyone can just admit it doesn't matter and get on with life.

 

GR always hedged on that, in one breath saying that they were always supposed to look like that, and in the next saying there were simply different races of Klingons just as there are different races of humans.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Depicting_Klingons:

So the Enterprise had an extensive refit. It certainly wouldn't be the last...and it might not even have been the first! Uniforms change all the time, and there is often significant overlap in multiple styles being worn simultaneously. Plus, there are always different types for different purposes and assignments. Of course, as ever, if one is determined to pick this all apart, it will never hold up to nitpicking scrutiny. But as a gloss, which is really all that should be required, since it's entirely beside the point of the stories, it works fine.

-MMoM

 

I don't disagree with you.

They probably won't do a clean 100% break ala-Battlestar Galactica or they would've done it by now. They had a chance in 1979, 1987, 2009, and 2017. But each time, they had a different justification: "We redesigned the ship!" "It's 100 years later!" "The timeline splits when Kirk is born!" "It's only a visual reboot!"

On another note: both film launches and TV re-launches were 30 years apart. 1979 and 2009 for the movies. 1987 and 2017 for TV. Funny how that works out.

 

It was an old MySpace account.

 

Discovery can never occupy the same space as TOS for me. It is just too different in feel than what came before. Though I am hoping that season two is entertaining Trek in its own right.

 

I have a dream that all Star Trek series will live in a fandom where they will not be judged by the timeline they exist in but by the quality of their content and characters.