It quit being more than entertainment when Roddenberry decided to hawk IDIC Medallions in the third season of TOS. Since then, it is product designed to enrichen the IP holders.
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Spoilers Should Star Trek be "our future" or an alternate timeline?
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It quit being more than entertainment when Roddenberry decided to hawk IDIC Medallions in the third season of TOS. Since then, it is product designed to enrichen the IP holders.
See the NFT thread...
Alternate timeline. Makes no sense to be our future.
I mean at this point if time, they have sent a person to Saturn and back. We’re lacking compared to them.
The novels give you a good idea on what their 2000’s should be like. The tv shows are always lazy when it comes to that by just making it our present.
I mean at this point if time, they have sent a person to Saturn and back. We’re lacking compared to them.
The novels give you a good idea on what their 2000’s should be like. The tv shows are always lazy when it comes to that by just making it our present.
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To be fair it does make it a lot easier to film.
The rest of your point is subjective, but calling it a retcon is just factually inaccurate.
There are lots of examples of advanced spaceflight within the Trekverse, from Nomad to the Botany Bay to that sleeper ship from The Neutral Zone. DS9 and VOY mostly ignored this, but they didn't write it over, so it always remained canon.
I trust you'll foot the bill.
They are the one's who chose to make a science fiction program. Seems it is up to them to amaze us with what they come up with.
All they need to do is give things different names and be more creative with the Political and geographic situation. It wouldn’t cost much. Certainly less than doing a future setting
To what end? Star Trek has always involved Earth.
It's not me I'm worried about - it's my 3 kids... Once I had kids, my entire perspective changed...
Thus creating a fictional world, yes.
Titanic is set in a fictional world in which various passengers who didn't appear on the ships manifest form the characters. As soon as you introduce even the slightest element of fiction, you're not in our world anymore. Maybe to a very slight degree, but still the degree exists.
And Star Trek canon does quite a lot more than invent a few passengers on a famous boat. In fact, it goes a lot further than putting vampires onboard said boat:
In TOS alone, we have Jack the Ripper as an alien, Greek Gods as ancient aliens who intervened in our history, space flights and wars that have dates that have been and gone, historical figures who never existed and references to real events that are massively inaccurate (death tolls in the first two world wars).
So how come vampires on the Titanic is too much for you, but Jack the Ripper reimagined as a cloud of extraterrestrial gas capable of interstellar travel is given a pass?
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Yeah but so did Admiral Marcus
Him having one is fine since it’s the future.
Him having a Vengeance model in plain sight was weirder
I know they said that in dialogue, but the evidence presented in the shows would suggest otherwise, such as Metamorphosis where they were using a shuttle to ferry Commissioner Hedford interstellar distances. Or the more egregious example, The Menagerie, where Spock is taking the Enterprise to Talos at warp, and Kirk and Commodore Mendez decide to pursue in a shuttle, despite the fact that if the shuttle is indeed not warp capable, they should have no chance of catching up to the Enterprise.
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