how do you account for all of the numerous canon violations in this show?

[F. King Daniel]

As I understand it the makers of DISCO aren’t allowed to make the show look like proper prime timeline Trek just as kelvinverse movies aren’t allowed to look like that either. The tech, uniforms, Klingons etc must look different as the contract states it. We are unlikely to see a constitution class ship, interior or exterior, on discovery at all. Also the look is different for merchandising purposed as well.

Nope, that's Midnight's Edge/Doug Fitz nonsense.

The show looks different because the powers that be decided to give the show a new look. And yes, merchandising likely was a factor. More people will buy a Discovery-style Enterprise than a re-release of an Enterprise they already have a half dozen models of.

 

[Attentiveluke]

Bad robot makes STD, cbs owns Star Trek, cbs lease out the rights to make Star Trek but on their terms, and their terms are for a lookalike Trek just like the jar jar Abrams movies.

 

[dahj]

Bad robot makes STD

It doesn't.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

As I understand it the makers of DISCO aren’t allowed to make the show look like proper prime timeline Trek

Yes they are. But cheap and old looking are not what they want

 

[nightwind1]

As I understand it the makers of DISCO aren’t allowed to make the show look like proper prime timeline Trek just as kelvinverse movies aren’t allowed to look like that either. The tech, uniforms, Klingons etc must look different as the contract states it. We are unlikely to see a constitution class ship, interior or exterior, on discovery at all. Also the look is different for merchandising purposed as well.

I don't know where you heard that, because someone was pulling your leg. That is not the case at all.

The reason it doesn't look like TOS is that we're in the 21st century now, not the latter third of the 20th century. Technology and production methods have advanced.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Bad robot makes STD, cbs owns Star Trek, cbs lease out the rights to make Star Trek but on their terms, and their terms are for a lookalike Trek just like the jar jar Abrams movies.

No, Bad Robot are not involved in the making of Star trek Discovery. If they were, you'd think they'd be credited somewhere. They're a production company, not the Illuminati.

Don't believe anything you read on Midnight's Edge, or from one of the Doug Fitz FB fangroups. They're morons.

 

[Tallguy]

In answer to the original question: It's a TV show made 50 years after the original. Not an original answer, I know.

OTOH, especially given the turns of the last few weeks, I've been wondering why they put a TOS phaser and communicator in the opening credits. Especially since the phaser explodes itself and then reassembles into a Disco phaser.

I had originally brushed it off as a fairly clever credits sequence with many nerdy nods to its fans. But now I wonder...

 

[Nerys Myk]

no canon was violated during filming

And all continuity was monitored by the ASPCA (American Society for the Prevention of Canon Anomalies)

 

[Jerry Cooley]

I am not a strict purist, but, some order regarding the timeline's relationship to ship technology should be important. I am fine with the "reboot" that the new movies are engaged in, but, the television series', so far, have been mostly on point.

 

[Jerry Cooley]

I am not a strict purist, but, some order regarding the timeline's relationship to ship technology should be important. I am fine with the "reboot" that the new movies are engaged in, but, the television series', so far, have been mostly on point.

On point, that is, until Discovery.

 

[Nerys Myk]

As I understand it the makers of DISCO aren’t allowed to make the show look like proper prime timeline Trek just as kelvinverse movies aren’t allowed to look like that either. The tech, uniforms, Klingons etc must look different as the contract states it. We are unlikely to see a constitution class ship, interior or exterior, on discovery at all. Also the look is different for merchandising purposed as well.

Contract with who to do what?

 

[Mirror Mirror]

Contract with who to do what?

Pretty sure we have someone who is watching the Midnight edge junk.

 

[Tosk]

Discovery plays at being in the prime timeline, but it's obvious that it isn't due to the look of everything and due to some events not playing out like they really should have. It will never be embraced by the masses as "real Trek".


...Oh wait, did I say Discovery? I meant Enterprise. Flashbacks to 2001, man!

 

[fireproof78]

Bad robot makes STD, cbs owns Star Trek, cbs lease out the rights to make Star Trek but on their terms, and their terms are for a lookalike Trek just like the jar jar Abrams movies.

I'll keep this short.

No

Discovery plays at being in the prime timeline, but it's obvious that it isn't due to the look of everything and due to some events not playing out like they really should have. It will never be embraced by the masses as "real Trek".


...Oh wait, did I say Discovery? I meant Enterprise. Flashbacks to 2001, man!

Oh, snap!

 

[PixelMagic]

Let’s be clear. CBS owns ALLLLL of Star Trek. They license Star Trek to Paramount to make tentpole summer films because CBS doesn’t make $185 million movies. If CBS wants to they could drop in any Kelvin timeline prop, ship, actor, or character if they wanted.

Now, it’s highly likely they have a “gentleman’s agreement” contract with Paramount that they won’t mix the universes to keep the branding from getting confused. However, when all is said and done, CBS can do whatever they want with Star Trek. Any and all of Star Trek.

 

[Awesome Possum]

Canon is like a religious belief, ask anyone and you’ll get an unique answer.

 

[Nerys Myk]

Discovery plays at being in the prime timeline, but it's obvious that it isn't due to the look of everything and due to some events not playing out like they really should have. It will never be embraced by the masses as "real Trek".


...Oh wait, did I say Discovery? I meant Enterprise. Flashbacks to 2001, man!

Good times

 

[Turtletrekker]

Discovery plays at being in the prime timeline, but it's obvious that it isn't due to the look of everything and due to some events not playing out like they really should have. It will never be embraced by the masses as "real Trek".


...Oh wait, did I say Discovery? I meant Enterprise. Flashbacks to 2001, man!

All of the "How could they change the Klingons?" whining gave me flashbacks to 1979. Trek fans have never changed.

 

[middleagednerdgirl]

The fact is that we had figured exactly where this story was going

Spoiler

(Ash/Voq, mirror universe, Mirror Lorca, etc.)

from many months ago.

And I’m not talking about spoilers either. It was the writing that had telegraphed it all. There has never been before such an astounding predictability.

I was sure about Tyler the day I met him, and about Mirror Lorca after Episode 6. It was absolutely foreshadowed, though Mirror Lorca would have been way less obvious if Jonathan Frakes hadn't fucked up and told us we were going to the Mirror Universe and someone who hadn't seen Trek couldn't possibly have known until at least episode 10. Nonetheless, a lot of the details have been surprising and there is a whole lot we don't know. I still have no idea how Lorca crossed over, whether he is a megalomaniac or a freedom fighter, what exactly he wants, what happened to Prime Lorca, or more importantly how the story ends. I THINK Discovery will make it back to the prime universe, but I'm not 100 percent sure, I don't know how they will do it or what will happen to Tyler, Lorca or Stamets.

If the show is so predictable, give me the answers to all those questions today.

 

[fireproof78]

All of the "How could they change the Klingons?" whining gave me flashbacks to 1979. Trek fans have never changed.

Nobody hates Star Trek like Star Trek fans

If the show is so predictable, give me the answers to all those questions today.

Indeed