She did and if that’s the choice, that’d be fine. But making it someone we know adds a certain level of “Oh fuck!” To the equation. More likely than not, it’d just be treated by some as shock value.
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She did and if that’s the choice, that’d be fine. But making it someone we know adds a certain level of “Oh fuck!” To the equation. More likely than not, it’d just be treated by some as shock value.
My brain had to work that way. I was told by Trek friends that TNG was "real Trek" and TOS was not Trek.
Maybe they should just film a scene in one of the TOS bridge recreation museums where Pike says something like, "Well Spock, this is the future of Starfleet and soon most starship bridges will be refit to this design" not unlike the "no holograms again" business they pulled on Discovery for the Enterprise.
I'd prefer not to, but even just from this board alone it's clear you do have to often slavishly listen to the majority around you or find yourself ostracized and without any friends. That's certainly been my experience in life.
It was far more of revelation that my opinion was not welcome amongst friends that led me to disregard most opinions and keep to myself.
True friends should be able to disagree on things and remain friends and still be able to share opinions. I had one friend for a number of years who was increasingly of the opinion that if you decided the fight was no longer worth it that he had won and you admitted you were wrong. He has not been counted among my friends for over 20 years now. I'm curious what side of this topic he would be on.
Bearing in mind this was 6th grade/11 year old fans, not adults.
Man, I didn’t even have Star Trek friends in 6th grade.I was the outcast nerdy kid who liked Trek.
I had a teacher who loved TOS and friends who loved TNG and didn't like TOS. I was still considered the nerdy kid of the nerds lol
I'm sorry you've had that experience. I hope nothing I said made you feel that way.
Same. I usually keep to myself for those reasons. My view of the world is quite different than most in my experience.
Yup. That's my view of it as well, save that it is so old so it gets grandfathered in. But, what falls under "REBOOT" nowadays would 100% describe TMP and TWOK as well.
And I treat them as such.
Oh no, don't worry, my post was not connected to you at all.
When I was in sixth grade, TOS and TAS were the only Star Trek. Everyone else was into Star Wars..
And because Star Trek wasn't rerun in my local market between 1976-1979, I had to rely upon novels and my imagination and memories to recreate the Star Trek experience.
When I was in sixth grade, Star Trek was the only Star Trek. But I was in Japan and I don't think Armed Forces Network carried it. Ah, but by seventh grade I was back in the states, Trek was being rerun and my best friend was a major trekkie. He had every thing. The Concordance, the Blish books, the Blueprints and a little thing called "The Making of Star Trek". Oh, yeh and TAS premiered.
I entered 6th grade in the Fall of 1970.
Star Trek was by that time, a lovely memory of mine with no further idea of it becoming a hobby of a lifetime.
I wouldn't even know what a Trek Convention was for another year and a half.
(was lucky enough to attend the NYC convention in 1972)
Star Trek was by that time, a lovely memory of mine with no further idea of it becoming a hobby of a lifetime.
I wouldn't even know what a Trek Convention was for another year and a half.
(was lucky enough to attend the NYC convention in 1972)
You're both right: It is a new show...set in the same timeline.
Lower Decks and Picard say yes.
Reboot to me is when the core concepts are retained but the original source material ‘didn’t happen’ as far as the new show is concerned.
I know there’s wiggle room in the “all of this has happened before” of Ron Moore’s BSG, but that show is to all intents and purposes a reboot.
The Kelvin Universe is strange in this regard. It manages to say that TOS didn’t happen and did happen in the same stroke. One of the reasons I think the concept is clever.
The revived Doctor Who series that began in 2005 is explicitly a continuation and not a reboot.
I know there’s wiggle room in the “all of this has happened before” of Ron Moore’s BSG, but that show is to all intents and purposes a reboot.
The Kelvin Universe is strange in this regard. It manages to say that TOS didn’t happen and did happen in the same stroke. One of the reasons I think the concept is clever.
The revived Doctor Who series that began in 2005 is explicitly a continuation and not a reboot.
I don't know. If they had gone and done a straight up reboot it would have given them more creative freedom to change things and not have fandom hand wringing over "but what's the point of divergence" crap. By doing the movies as an alternate timeline that branched off the Prime Universe (which was only really done to provide a way for Nimoy to appear) all they really did was prove the Prime Universe is some sort of security blanket which the franchise won't go without.
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