If Discovery was set ten year before *anything* TOS, would it make more sense?

[Mark_Nguyen]

Forgiveness is begged if covered here already, a quick check didn't show any focused discussion.

It just occurred to me that while the Discovery tag line set them ten years before "Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise", placing it in 2255 or so, what if they really meant to be ten years before ANY of the events collectively referred to as TOS, including "The Cage"?

By placing it in 2244 (i.e. ten years before "The Cage", which is itself some eleven years before "Where No Man Has Gone Before"), would that make some of the perceived, visual continuity errors in the look of the show go away? Would it make it the same sort of visual discrepency that we eventually came to accept as the "Enterprise" series look being more / differently advanced, which would then somehow evolve into what we've seen before?

Granted, putting it before "The Cage" still places it after the SS Columbia supposedly crashed on Talos-IV, and its own technological anachronisms compared to ENT / Kelvin stuff that's since been established. But would critical fans be more at ease if the "look" of Star Trek moved from

Kelvin --> Discovery --> Cage --> TOS,

instead of

Kelvin --> Cage --> Discovery --> TOS

Thoughts?

Mark

 

[uniderth]

Thoughts:

Cage--->Kirk

The end.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Since they said they're re-imagining the visuals last August, looking for a visual continuity seems pointless. IMO it's "prime universe" and "ten years before Kirk, Spock and the Enterprise" in the same way that Smallville was ~10 years before the bulk of Superman: The Movie - in other words, a lot is familiar and you know the broad strokes of what's going to happen, but its' its own unique thing.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Place it 10, 20, 30, 40 years after Star Trek: Enterprise. Problem instantly solved.

If you need a schematic:

Enterprise--->Discovery

 

[YellowSubmarine]

My preferred schematic

-->Discovery--v
^-----------------<

 

[fireproof78]

Place it 10, 20, 30, 40 years after Star Trek: Enterprise. Problem instantly solved.

If you need a schematic:

Enterprise--->Discovery

It would actually be interesting to see the progression of Enterprise.

So, Enterprise--->Discovery---->Kelvin-->Cage

 

[Jinn]

I'd like it to be as far in the past as possible and if it's just to avoid any unnecessary cameos by future Enterprise crewmembers and the like.

 

[fireproof78]

Star Trek: B.C.!

 

[F. King Daniel]

Star Trek: B.C.!

Star Trek A.A. (After Abrams)

 

[dahj]

The intention is pretty clear, it's 10 years before The Man Trap.

Or is it Where No Man Has Gone Before...

 

[Mirror Mirror]

I see zero issue where it is. All they did was update the visual style for a modern audience. Ignore the silly 1069's visuals and move on.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Ignore the silly 1069's visuals and move on.

I wonder if William the Conqueror was a Trekkie, then?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

So DSC looks different? Big deal. Everyone knew it would. No Trek series has ever looked like any other. Yet they share a continuity. It can happen, you know.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

I wonder if William the Conqueror was a Trekkie, then?

Of course.

 

[Dukhat]

So DSC looks different? Big deal. Everyone knew it would.

No, I truly believe there were many people who thought it would look just like TOS, based on those Mirror episodes of ENT and how "believable" they looked even on a show produced in the 2000's.

Yet they share a continuity. It can happen, you know.

Yes, it can happen. Even the new Doctor Who is in the same continuity with the original '60's show. The issue, though, is that new Who will never, ever try to look like it did back then on a consistent basis even though it's the same universe.

 

[Mirror Mirror]

So DSC looks different? Big deal. Everyone knew it would. No Trek series has ever looked like any other. Yet they share a continuity. It can happen, you know.

The TNG/DS9/VOY did as they were all filmed at the same time, often by the same people and all shared props and such. So they shared a look

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

Yes, it can happen. Even the new Doctor Who is in the same continuity with the original '60's show. The issue, though, is that new Who will never, ever try to look like it did back then on a consistent basis even though it's the same universe.

 

[Mudd]

No more or no less sense.

 

[urbandefault]

It was announced at the start that this would be a reimagining, but set in the TV timeline.

To me, it means that it won't look like The Cage, but there might be references to events mentioned in the TV shows. No need to get all pissy about the look, because we were told it would be new.

Just buckle up and get ready for the ride.

 

[uniderth]

No need to get all pissy about the look, because we were told it would be new.

But the issue isn't that we were taken by surprise by the look. The issue is that it looks out of place.