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Is this a faithful prequel to TOS?
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Fans are smart, they can keep up.
That was just Gene being Gene and selling a product and that product was Gene.
In what sense? The previous page is an example of what I mean.
Some people see it as a prequel to TOS, some see it as part of a multiverse. Old hat. Marvel has been doing it for a decade.
Except SNW has gone out of their way to distance themselves from the visual aesthetics of DSC. Just look at the Klingons and their ships for an example of this. They have far more of a TOS vibe than DSC ever had.
Sure its. Why? because that's what the show tells us.
If only we could all accept that and move on.
I accepted it as a multiverse back when Discovery premiered. To me, and I only speak for myself, a multiverse where TOS and SNW are concerned is far more satisfying. I already know the fate of these characters. I wanted (when I was watching the show) to see where modern storytelling could take them.
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL KLINGONS!!!Hmmm...
Yeah, no. Klingons totally don't sing...
I can't go onto youtube these days without seeing yet another AI generated short film of how some modern franchise would look if filmed in the 1950s (usually accompanied by gratuitous shots of barely clothed beautiful AI women in a bizarre flanderization of what 1950s cinema actually was like). Maybe all the TOS purists unhappy with Strange New Worlds should AI-generate their own 1960s style short film on how SNW should look and post the video here.
Surprised there isn't one already
Surprised there isn't one already
There are a lot of AI Trek shorts on YouTube.
Yeah, I've seen a few. All with the requisite AI babes. Not one about SNW though.
DISCO missed their chance to have the crew watching TOS and SNW and say "it was nothing like that!"
DISCO missed their chance to have the crew watching TOS and SNW and say "it was nothing like that!"
Actually, I was hoping that Those Old Scientists would have shown Mariner and Boimler point out the inconsistencies between what they thought they knew about TOS when they went back in time. But that didn’t remotely happen.
lol, those bug me, too. I don't get why they're setting things in the 1950s since the 50s were nothing like that (maybe that's the point). Late 1960s works better , since Barbarella was a thing by then.
It must have something to do with your search histories, I don't see these on YouTube. It's probably an algorithm thing. I've seen a few, but not to the frequency you get. I do like the ones where it's like, what if a popular TV show or movie was made in the 90's. Those make me laugh pretty hard.
Yeah, I'm not keen on it either. But I'm the guy who collected the Star Trek Fact Files, bought the Babylon 5 technical manual, and read the lore on the Elder Scrolls wiki; I get into fictional universes and I like learning about them. But SNW contradicts the fictional universe, visually if nothing else, so I can't learn about it. It's one step removed from the imaginary world I love, so in some ways it's one step more fictional.
Seriously? You can buy ALL the visual contradictions in the Elder Scrolls lore (have you even played Elder Scrolls Arena?) but can't handle Strange New Worlds? No offense but that feels like a double standard to me. Heck, the IDW comics basically said that Pike's Enterprise was refitted into Kirk's Enterprise, which is more plausible than the something something "Dragon Break and Warp of the West" handwaves that Elder Scrolls offers for their contradictions.
Uriel Septim doesn't even look the same from one game to the next! The names of Uriel's sons and Arthago in later games don't match up with the names in Daggerfall! The layouts for towns and dungeons that are supposed to be the same between Elder Scrolls Online, Arena, and other games are completely incompatible, far more so than anything Strange New Worlds couldn't explain away.
And yes, I know what I'm talking about because I finished every Elder Scrolls PC game except Battlespire (yes even Redguard and the main quest of Elder Scrolls Online), and I only didn't beat Battlespire because of a game breaking bug. If you are hung up on the cosmetic differences between SNW and the rest of Trek but accept the far more severe contradictions in Elder Scrolls, that feels like a double standard to me.
I don't think I even need to get started on Elder Scrolls: Castles or Elder Scrolls: Blades
Which, to me, was pretty much the nail in the coffin of the argument it's a different timeline and further cemented the argument that it's all prime timeline. Yes, to us, the audience of the fictional universe, it looks different and modernized. But in-universe, it's all the same and everything is as it should be.
I clapped at that moment.
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