Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x02 – “Beta Test”

[Turtletrekker]

i was on this BBS when ENT came out, and the forum wars of ENT's catastrophic offences against holy canon were the stuff of legend.

I was younger then, and i did have issues with ENT and its relationship to canon, but as you get older, you just roll with it. It's just a TV show.

Giving Romulans cloaks 100 years before Balance of Terror is more egregious a "canon violation" than anything done in the modern era. Now it's just accepted.

I remember being upset to the changes to the Klingons once. In 1979. Just rolled with the multiple and various changes to the species since then. Didn't always like the changes, but I just rolled with them.

 

[fireproof78]

Pedantry?

No. Just proof that Legacy can appear in any century.

Giving Romulans cloaks 100 years before Balance of Terror is more egregious a "canon violation" than anything done in the modern era. Now it's just accepted.

I remember being upset to the changes to the Klingons once. In 1979. Just rolled with the multiple and various changes to the species since then. Didn't always like the changes, but I just rolled with them.

Real world historical dramas and comedies get way more latitude than Star Trek ever does.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Giving Romulans cloaks 100 years before Balance of Terror is more egregious a "canon violation" than anything done in the modern era. Now it's just accepted.

I could be mistaken but I vaguely recall a novel I think explaining they were prototypes for shipboard cloaks and the experiment failed miserably. Almost anything can just be turned into a new story and that's wonderful.

 

[I am not Spock]

Giving Romulans cloaks 100 years before Balance of Terror is more egregious a "canon violation" than anything done in the modern era. Now it's just accepted.

I remember being upset to the changes to the Klingons once. In 1979. Just rolled with the multiple and various changes to the species since then. Didn't always like the changes, but I just rolled with them.

Yeah. I remember the 'cancel ENT ' cultists. Now it's held up as the last bastion of the Great Trek Era (TM).

The more this fanbase changes, the more it stays the same

 

[Fateor]

My take on the subject is that the Burn is meant to have essentially begun a domino effect. The world of replicators, unlimited power, and unlimited resources depended on planets all cooperating in the Federation. However, once you've disrupted all those supply lines and gotten rid of 99% of the galaxy's space travel vessels, then huge chunks of the ability to rebuild will be curtailed.

And that's assuming people DID rebuild because the theme of DISCO was that no one wanted to become space travel dependent again until they knew what caused the Burn. Which means that planets tried to become self-sufficient again or failed completely.

Then the technology goes from Sufficiently Advanced to Analog to whatever.

As we saw in the pilot, worlds now have actual famine even under the Federation's control.

Fusion reactors didn't explode, so they still would have had unlimited power, which means they still would have been able to just replicate anything they wanted.

 

[Charles Phipps]

Fusion reactors didn't explode, so they still would have had unlimited power, which means they still would have been able to just replicate anything they wanted.

They clearly can't replicate dilithium in the 34th century since they still needed to mine it.

It's possible that anti-matter reactors also require imported goods to manufacture on most planets.

Hence why everything looks like Pandora with less hockey masks.

Replicators are also like Tranpsorters in that they don't get used 99% of the ways they could be because, "The technology mumble mumble mumble has the something something."

 

[Fateor]

They clearly can't replicate dilithium in the 34th century since they still needed to mine it.

It's possible that anti-matter reactors also require imported goods to manufacture on most planets.

Hence why everything looks like Pandora with less hockey masks.

Replicators are also like Tranpsorters in that they don't get used 99% of the ways they could be because, "The technology mumble mumble mumble has the something something."

Replicators can run just fine on fusion power, that's why portable replicators are even a thing.