I'm a continuity fanatic and even I'm learning to loosen up a little and just let things fit where they will.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x05 - "Spock Amok"
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Just get the larger details correct and we can fill in the little stuff because a lot of those smaller details can fit just about anywhere. Spock's backstory is still largely a blank slate or just random events.
I love continuity in so far as it is fun to learn about this fictional world.
I am not so pedantic to demand it line up perfectly correct in a way that not even history books get.
Neither does obsessing over meaningless details.
I can pedant about nerd crap with the best of them. And I know when I need a break and just enjoy the story.
96%-98% of the time our worries about continuity are unjustified, anyways. This franchise does a shockingly good job of keeping things consistent when you consider that there are nearly 1,000 canon stories that have been produced since 1964.
96%-98% of the time our worries about continuity are unjustified, anyways. This franchise does a shockingly good job of keeping things consistent when you consider that there are nearly 1,000 canon stories that have been produced since 1964.
In “Amok Time”, Uhura asks who T’Pring is, and she and Chapel both looked shock when Spock tells them. But they both know T’Pring from SNW!
I headcanon that Uhura is momentarily distracted by T’Pring’s to-die-for appearance on the viewscreen — slightly older, spectacularly made up, and also just projecting a different, “cold queen” aura — to the extent that for a moment Nyota doesn’t register the name or recognize her. There’s something changed and unrecognizable frosty about T’Pring now. (Chapel’s glance at Spock is more a last chance “God, it’s really her, I’ve lost for good, haven’t I?”). Presumably, for the next few hours Nyota wonders how T’Pring could seem so different; once T’Pring’s plot comes out, she gets it.
I headcanon that Uhura is momentarily distracted by T’Pring’s to-die-for appearance on the viewscreen — slightly older, spectacularly made up, and also just projecting a different, “cold queen” aura — to the extent that for a moment Nyota doesn’t register the name or recognize her. There’s something changed and unrecognizable frosty about T’Pring now. (Chapel’s glance at Spock is more a last chance “God, it’s really her, I’ve lost for good, haven’t I?”). Presumably, for the next few hours Nyota wonders how T’Pring could seem so different; once T’Pring’s plot comes out, she gets it.
or perhaps Amok Time takes place after The Changeling and Uhura has no recollection of her SNW days!
And she has yet to have any scenes with T’Pring in SNW.
Uhura has not met T'Pring.
Chapel may be shocked because last she heard they were on a break.
Haha I just said the exact same thing in the Charades thread
Yeah, well, the reason for that is because "Amok Time" is a television story made in the late 1960s, and SNW is engaged in a rolling revision of the internal continuity of stories told within that fictional time frame.
