Star Trek Picard is not Star Trek
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And "The Clash," a 1965 episode of 12 O'Clock High.
Exactly. Sometimes real-world concerns trump "canon," which is basically an illusion anyway.
Just like I ignore the last episode of Enterprise when I rewatch it.
I at least like the idea of the ST Countdown comic leading up to ST2009 allowing Data to live on. At the time they told us it was canon and now they ignore it.
DS9 had to say something (that is, if they wanted to use the old Tribbles footage). The little that they did say I saw as more of a joke acknowledgement rather than any real in-universe thing that needed to be carried forward.
Sure, the acknowledgement that Klingons looked different did happen in-universe, but it was such a quick throw-away line that we could have just laughed at the slight absurdity of the situation and moved on -- which is what most of us did until ENT's unnecessary detailed explanation.
What we saw in TOS was that some Starfleet personnel had the arrowhead, and some didn't. That's fine. I'd rather not get into the nitpicky minutiae of exactly how Starfleet HQ determined which crews should get the arrowhead and which crews should use a different emblem. Disco uses the arrowhead for whatever reason Starfleet sees fit, and that's just fine too.
Kor
Kor
One doesn't follow canon,one creates it. (or I should say writers do) Something is canon until it isn't anymore. The Enterprise is an Earth ship operated by humans under the authority of the UESPA until it isn't. Data was a member of the class of '78, until he wasn't. Spock was an only child until he wasn't. Klingon looked liked humans with bushy eyebrows and occasionally swarthy skin, until they didn't (and they did again).
Ironically, the scene shows that not all changes require explanation. The episode preceding along fine without trying to figure out how Worf and Koloth were both Klingons. It's just artistic license that took hold over the years.
Sorting hat.
Yeah? Well to me, when it comes right down to it, neither are Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, (Star Trek): Enterprise, or Star Trek: Nemesis.
None of those are Star Trek. Only Star Trek is truly Star Trek. I enjoy it on its own elevated level, as a standalone thing separate from, and a cut above, the franchise that came later. All the other shows and movies are spinoffs that don't hit the same notes as Star Trek. But they don't have to. I can still enjoy them to varying degrees and for different reasons, some more than others, but as their own thing. They are all equally not Star Trek to me.
Kor
Definitely not Star Trek. It never could be Star Trek.
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Definitely not Star Trek. It never could be Star Trek.
Free exchange of ideas here
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