Laugh if you want, but I won't recognize Star Trek unless the captain's uniform is the precise color of gold that appeared on my TV in 1973. (Or is it avacado).
So how important is canon, then?
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It's avocado! Pretty sure that is a hill someone wants to die on...
In both directions. Once you decide that changing continuity is OK, they you can change anything you want. And again, I have no issue with that. Just don't call it Star Trek. Matter of fact, The Orville is a title that soon won't be used for anything else
Dammit, only one of them can be Star Trek! If it's avacado, I can't watch Strange New Worlds unless it is filmed and transmitted with decades old technology so that it looks like it did on my color TV in 1973.
There is no way SNW can match that technology! Canon violation!
I watch the episodes I want, that's my canon.
Canon - I enjoyed that old tv show
I think it'll allow some unique story possibilities when Strange New Worlds introduces Spock's human brother, Amanda's son from her first marriage, Robert Grayson. I'm hoping he's a civilian trade official so all the faceless people doing the behind the scenes work back on Earth keeping it a utopia get some coverage. It's a throwback episode to TOS issue episodes like "Let that be your last battlefield" and Robert was caught in some anomaly that alters Y chromosomes to X. He's alternately changing gender from male to female and needs his brother Spock's help. A set of male/female twins could play Robert as we explore how this type of random occurrence is challenging for a random individual to deal with but could benefit people who want to transition to alternate genders but does Robert want to be a lab rat. Probably not, who does. But Spock councils and says "Brother, sometimes logic is not the only way. What does your heart say."
For the canon/continuity purists the SNW show needs to reveal another never heard of Spock sibling or it is not my Trek!
I like the idea of Spock being the son of the Vulcan ambassador to the UFP, the nephew of the President of the UFP and the god son of Darth Vader.....oops wrong franchise
I like the idea of Spock being the son of the Vulcan ambassador to the UFP, the nephew of the President of the UFP and the god son of Darth Vader.....oops wrong franchise
A conversation I now wish had happened in TAS Yesteryear after grown-up Spock introduced himself as Cousin Selek. Have child Spock ask "why have I never heard of Cousin Selek before?" Sarek then answers "you have many relatives you've never heard of before. Indeed, even I can't keep track of all your siblings and cousins."
Like it or not, Short Treks and Picard show us the Discovery/Strange New Worlds verison of the ship AS the TOS Enterprise when if they wanted they could have used the authentic 1960's look. The old has been swapped out and replaced.
Says the CBS plant... (:
Just overwritten by inferior stories...?
That's one of the things I actually don't mind. Kirk and McCoy didn't know Spock had a fiance until they met her, didn't know Spocks parents AS they were meeting them, didn't know about his half brother after decades of being his best friends...that's just Spocks way.
Wait, what?
"Upgrade" being subjective...
Where did they go? *clutches TOS VHS*
The spiky faced alien on the bridge of the Enterprise in Such Sweet Sorrow is confirmed by Michelle Paradise to be Yeoman Colt. Though, hardly anyone else will acknowledge it. Memory Alpha lists her as a separate character also named Yeoman Colt, while the Disco novel The Enterprise War tries to dance around the matter with a vague reference to Colt having "changed a great deal" since the Talos mission.
I'll side with Memory Alpha.
You mean Kirok? Or Girok?
Why not go all the way? Juanita Martinez, Spock's egg donor, Devya Bhandari, the surrogate mother, T'Lait, his wetnurse, and Uncle Hot Tub Johnny, for the year Sarek lived separately on Betazed.
It's Spock relatives all the way down. All You Spocks.
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