All it shows is continuity is mutable.Exactly. But people like to use that as an argument for continuity having no relevance today
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At least UESPA was later recanonized in VOY with the inscriptions on the 2067 Friendship One warp probe and later in ENT as the agency that was in control of the United Earth Starfleet.
It has less relevance, and is far more malleable because of elements like that. Treating it as a strict immovable line is strange to me.Exactly. But people like to use that as an argument for continuity having no relevance today
Indeed. Otherwise, no Borg Queen maybe.
I know you meant 'ropey'. It just made me laugh!
No, I did mean rapey! I was specifically thinking of a time I watched "Is There In Truth No Beauty?", and all our male heroes can't stop surrounding Diana Muldaur and telling her what a hot piece of ass she is. It felt like the lead-up to a gang rape at the start of a Law & Order: SVU episode.
I followed it with the Disco with that infamous Georgiou/Culber/Stamets scene -- "You know he's gay, right?" "Don't be so binary, in my universe he was pansexual..."
Quite the jarring transition! But I do somehow love the conceit that these are the same universe 10 years removed.
And that the beauty of it.
Initialism. Acronym forms a word. UESPA isn't a word
Yes, it is an acronym, just like Nasa. National Aeronautics Space Administration.
Do they spell it out or say it in Tomorrow is Yesterday?
I couldn't say but I'm sure someone's made more than a few scooter jokes out of it.
Because NASA is a word you can say and pronounce, UESPA isn't (or at least one we don't say as a word and say the letters of, like FBI.) Acronyms form words.
Kirk said YOU-SPA in “Charlie X”; he didn’t spell out UESPA.
Captain's Log, star date 1535.8. UESPA headquarters notified of the mysterious loss of science probe vessel Antares.
The Lego Star Wars game comes out.
Probably will release that TMP directors cut in Plus
Been a long time since I've seen that one.
He really says it? That seems odd because looking and it it just doesn't look like a word you can say and like one you kinda have to clumsily say like "You-Spa."
You’re right about the clumsy pronunciation. That’s why they started saying it as “Starfleet”. Sort of like Menzies.
You like the EU makes sense, I had imagined Wespa out of it. Easy enough to make a pronunciation out of it.
And, see, I always said "U-E-S-P-A" because UESPA isn't pronuncible.