Spoilers Star Trek: Starfleet Academy 1x03 – “Vitus Reflux”

[Markonian]

They're so well-suited to it...

Indeed. (I needed to censor the word and it works because the Gorn are such a weirdly attractive group of species).

Image by Odd The Sun God.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Exactly. You don't want things (and people) to get so "evolved" and "futuristic" and "utopian" that we can't relate to the characters.

So, Kirk drinks coffee and eats chicken sandwichs and gripes when McCoy tells him to eat more salads, etc. And people occasionally swear and squabble and lose their tempers, and college kids are sometimes immature and make bad decisions . . . .

Isn't that the same scene where Kirk is gifted reading glasses. Something that really should not exist in the future if you are to go by the picky standards of some.

 

[The Wormhole]

None of those shows broke Canon as badly. Also none were hated as much as any Kurtzman Trek.

Back twenty years ago, Voyager and Enterprise were indeed hated amongst fandom as much as the Kurtzman shows are now. "Breaking canon" was one of the most common complaints people made about Enterprise back in the day. Even Voyager got some vitriol over ignoring what the other shows established, particularly Dark Frontier and stuff about the Borg.

 

[Set Harth]

or creating revenge gorn.

I don't even want to know.