Interesting article about the Klingons in Discovery

[Kor]

Klingons are allowed to have different cultural values, etc. across time and geography. Indeed, they really should.

What if some aliens got a hold of five TV shows from Earth dealing with, respectively, 16th-century China, 1960s Manhattan, the 19th-century American west, 1st-century B.C. Rome, and 2010s London?

Would they be criticizing the newest show for being inconsistent with what was established previously, and not staying true to the prior depiction of the human species?

Kor

 

[Albinator]

Klingons are allowed to have different cultural values, etc. across time and geography. Indeed, they really should.

What if some aliens got a hold of five TV shows from Earth dealing with, respectively, 16th-century China, 1960s Manhattan, the 19th-century American west, 1st-century B.C. Rome, and 2010s London?

Would they be criticizing the newest show for being inconsistent with what was established previously, and not staying true to the prior depiction of the human species?

Kor

There's enough cultural differences in one place in one era to have them complain...

 

[indranee]

Yes DS9 took four seasons to do that, but they spent the first four seasons ignoring the Klingons, not actively contradicting everything we had previously known about them. That's a bit different.

Inherent in the serialized and franchise nature of Trek is creative expansion. You seem to be of the opinion that we should always stick to ONE idea of whatever element we have seen. Do you honestly feel that everything in Trek is in stone and we cannot extrapolate and revise/re-create anything? If so, your idea of Trek is very different from mine.

 

[Ithekro]

"The 2010 London culture in not canon. Worst depiction of Hoomons, ever."

 

[Mattadd]

Inherent in the serialized and franchise nature of Trek is creative expansion. You seem to be of the opinion that we should always stick to ONE idea of whatever element we have seen. Do you honestly feel that everything in Trek is in stone and we cannot extrapolate and revise/re-create anything? If so, your idea of Trek is very different from mine.

I'm of the opinion that good scifi/fantasy creates an internally consistent universe. So yes, things that have been established are set in stone, if you're going to start revising the universe you no longer have internal consistency and that makes it much harder to suspend disbelief.