To be fair, so had most of Star Trek.
My advice would be to forget about the timeline. As much as it would be fun if Trek kept to continuity (and avoided prequels) it's just not going to happen.
Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 1x05 - "Spock Amok"
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1969 was a pretty bad year for the observance of continuity. 1987 wasn't so perfect, either.
Yeah, but they weren't yet actively looking for ways to lawyer around it.
The OT continuity barely made it into this century. It's not only dead, Jim, it's gone to dust.
Yeah, but they weren't yet actively looking for ways to lawyer around it.
The OT continuity barely made it into this century. It's not only dead, Jim, it's gone to dust.
Yeah continuity/canon from tos is gone. It was there for tng, ds9, stv and ste but once kurtzman trek started it was out the window.
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TOS had so little of its own in-universe continuity it barely referenced itself. It had callbacks to the corbomite ploy, Zefram Cochrane, the Tholian incident and Gem and the Vians and a few others here and there but for the most part when one episode was over it never again referenced the events of another.
Wrath of Khan
That's not TOS. That's a TOS movie made years later.
Which is the episodic sand box nature of the show on display. It wasn't always in continuity and that is OK. Expecting strict adherence to continuity is a fool's errand.
She's not the same character at all. She's much more quiet and reserved only 8 or 8 years later. I don't buy it.
You don't have to.
But, people do that all the time. 8 years? I've changed more in the last 3 years due to life circumstances.
A LOT of trauma can happen within 8 years' time. How someone chooses to process it (or not) can potentially change their core psyche and greater personality. I have seen it happen multiple times to others I've known over the years myself. If there are any mental health professionals around here, they might be able to elucidate on that notion, as I am not a therapist.
Nor are you, I would wager.
For someone who brought up TWOK you sure don't seem to appreciate how characters can change over time and have different personalities with the passage of many years. Kirk in Star Trek II wasn't who he was in TOS and that's part of the message of the film. He'd become a different man. Older, more worn out and less enthusiastic about the universe around him.
Chapel loses her fiancee in the coming years and finds out he not only died but was resurrected in the body of an android that was then destroyed in front of her eyes. That kind of thing can affect a person.
And they still got stuff wrong.
TOS couldn't even decide which century it was in for most of Season 1. I love TOS more than any other incarnation of Trek past or present but damn, Gene was flailing all over the place in 1966 and 1967 to figure out a setting other than "starship named U.S.S. Enterprise."
Poor Christine is in for a rough ride there. Poor Chris is in for a rough ride, too. If only Chapel knew her fate like Pike, would she do things differently?
I like Chapel. In both shows.
I like Chapel. In both shows.
For all we know Chapel "helped" Spock out every seven years after Amok Time and they finally got married by the time young Picard was around as Picard mentioned he was at the wedding of "Sarek's son".
Since when? /s
Yeah, speaking personally, I have had huge life changes in the past 3 years. It simply is a matter of experience.
I actually liked it when TREK wasn't pinned down to a specific time period. I like that vagueness.
By "Space Seed" they'd narrowed the universe in that series down to the operating organization being "Starfleet" which was part of the "Federation" and there being at least a 200-year gap after Earth's Eugenics Wars, so bare minimum of 2196. But other than that things were still kinda vague for a while.
