Paramount has claimed this so many times by now, I think it counts as dubious lol
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PARAMOUNT: We're announcing Star Trek 4! Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto, Zoe Saldana and the rest will return for another adventure!
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Given the ah, 'evolving' situation at Paramount, I'd take anything that doesn't have cameras in front of actors right now as dubious.
Hell, I wouldn't even call anything legit until it premieres in theaters, lest greedy studio bosses sacrifice it upon the altar of the Almighty Tax Break.
Paramount wants a simplified timeline.
As it stands, there are now four different timelines within Trek:
It's extremely confusing and it's difficult for new fans to enter the franchise.
As it stands, there are now four different timelines within Trek:
- Prime (TOS through Disco)
- Animated (TAS, Lower Decks, Prodigy)
- Kelvin (JJ-verse feature films)
- Mirror timeline
It's extremely confusing and it's difficult for new fans to enter the franchise.
All the same timeline.
How would it appear to a new viewer who's tuning into Trek for this first time?
As the same timeline.
Edit: And really, as a point, there's only two timelines that actually matter: Prime and Kelvin. Mirror is an occasional visit. How many mirror episodes are there? Maybe 20? (Just looked - 14) Out of 900+ (Just looked - 908)? They do a pretty good job of explaining that in the episodes they visit it in.
Hate to break it to you, but no one will start with Discovery. And even if they did, they do a pretty good job of explaining the idea of a mirror universe in season one. I just finished watching that season again.
Try a younger viewer (the demographic Disco was created for).
I think they might. Plenty of people want to see a show with modern effects, but want to experience the franchise in release order from that. So they'd start with Disco, as it's the first modern show. Having said that, Disco explains the MU fine.
I guess define "younger viewer." Discovery was originally marketed as TV-MA "generally not suitable for people or individuals under the age of 17."
That said, I grew up absorbing how all of the pre-Crisis DC Comics stuff works, so I don't feel like keeping three universes straight is all that big of a deal, especially when one of the alternates (Kelvin) only encompasses three movies and the other (Mirror) only encompasses an ongoing story in Discovery and a handful of other episodes (1 TOS, 5 DS9, an Enterprise two-parter, and a couple of Lower Decks gags), and each of those kind of tells you everything you need to know. Unless you just find the inherent concept of alternate timelines confusing?
But if someone pulls up a random episode/movie the odds that it will significantly involve the Mirror or Kelvin timeline is around 1 in 50, so this doesn't really seem like a big deal to me.
(Maths: (16 primary Mirror Universe episodes per the Memory Alpha list + 3 Kelvin movies) / (908 episodes + 13 movies) = 2.06%, though every one of those 16 exceptions also involved the Prime Timeline if you count Spock Prime being a factor in each Kelvin film.)
Now if you want to talk about how Gundam has an intimidating number of timelines I'll be right with you...
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The Universal Century timeline is the only one that really matters.
Since when are the Animated shows a different timeline? What's this guy been smoking?
Mirror Universe is an alternate reality as is The Kelvin. I think the concept of a Multiverse is something even the new fans can grasp.
"Younger" = 18-35yo
He's just another idiot YouTuber chasing whatever views he can get.
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