I think the SNW Enterprise is gorgeous.
Evidence of SNW being a possible alternate timeline from TOS
I think the SNW Enterprise is gorgeous.
I think it's easily the best looking ship we've had since 1979.
When Robin Curtis replaced Kirstie Alley, I didn’t assume there was some major change in the timeline to make her look different. I hold that same attitude with SNW Enterprise looking different from TOS Enterprise.
Most arguments I’ve seen from those like Doug Drexler trying to argue in favor of keeping the Enterprise looking like it did in the 60s vs its updated look in SNW seems to stem from crippling nostalgia.
Most arguments I’ve seen from those like Doug Drexler trying to argue in favor of keeping the Enterprise looking like it did in the 60s vs its updated look in SNW seems to stem from crippling nostalgia.
Because there is a lack of context of what the TOS look was meant to evoke. It was to be futuristic and forward looking but now it's treated as something inviable.
Then there’s those who want to treat Trek like it’s a docudrama with everything being as consistent and as tangible as reality, rather than just acknowledging it’s a television show meant to entertain and grab viewers.
God forbid an entertainment franchise entertains!
It’s funny to me that the fandom used to be able to just roll with visual changes and just go along with it being the same person/ship/species, but that skill has been completely lost in the last 20 years.
I can only imagine the anxiety those type of fans felt during the first few years after TMP radically changed the look of Trek. With Roddenberry’s statements over how things look different because they have better budgets, it probably made it sound like all of TOS was visually retconned, so what you saw on TOS was no longer “what was” for awhile. Until “Relics” came along as if to say “no it’s okay, it looked exactly like that!”
What's hilarious to me is that even historical films are not as accurate as what is demanded of Star Trek.
Because people know Trek better than history.
Remember the "Nitpickers Guides"? When people used to have fun with this kind of stuff instead of treating any deviation as a violation of sacred text? Fun times.
Nitpicker's Guides
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Same.
TOS "canon" has always been messy and inconsistent. I wouldn't get too hung up on it.
Remember the "Nitpickers Guides"? When people used to have fun with this kind of stuff instead of treating any deviation as a violation of sacred text? Fun times.
Nitpicker's Guides
Buy books online and find book series such as Nitpicker's Guides written by Phil Farrand from PenguinRandomHouse.com
The sacred Starfleet texts!!!
I was eight.
The perfect age. I was seven the first time I saw a Klingon. It was glorious!
I had already been exposed to TOS Klingons, but I honestly couldn’t tell you what eight-year-old me thought about the change. Though sixteen-year-old me wasn’t wild about what TNG did to the Romulans.
I was -12 when TMP came out but I would have been very small, maybe about 5 when I was first introduced to watching Star Trek through TOS and TNG repeats, DS9 and VOY. I was raised right.
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