Finally sharing this outside the PMs, because it's probably the right time to tease more about Discovery S3, though I've teased this since January.
It will be explained why Star Trek designs, characters and events can be wildly different between different series, movies, comics, books, games, etc. even between episodes and even when it's the same thing being shown/discussed.
So in a nutshell, this is what the 1701 actually looks like and has always looked like:
https://media.comicbook.com/2018/04/star-trek-discovery-enterprise-1101834-1280x0.jpeg
and this is how that design changed after a BBC employee from the future went back in time and put an episode of Doctor Who on at the San Francisco Fleet Yards design studio, when they were designing the ship:
https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/p...7y9TspLG27h59mI5qnvMUegfPzVTbY3RgYx2mLgL_PBsw
It's a low-priority infraction, so the Temporal Agents took their time to fix it. But it's been fixed.
This would make
all Star Trek content canon, with any discrepencies being chalked up to incursions that haven't been fixed yet. I imagine this was always assumed by some fans, but it will be properly explained.
One of the rumoured crossover elements with the 2009 movie isn't a rumour. It will be used to explain how they fix the bigger incursions. Temporal agents assassinated Nero and his clan in 2387 before he could go back in time himself to destroy the Kelvin.
This also means TOS, for all intents and purposes, was an incursion. But one where the events that actually happened aren't too different to the incursion.