Spoilers Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 2x01 - "The Broken Circle"
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And yet the primary Changeling character we see in PIC S3 is often seen smoking
Which honestly makes sense. If you don't have to worry about maintaining the long-term health of your lungs because you can just shapeshift out of having them and then shapeshift back into having them, it makes sense that you might indulge in a vice that won't actually harm you.
And yet the primary Changeling character we see in PIC S3 is often seen smoking
Good point.
But Amanda Plummer makes it look almost cool!
Well I'm still not getting this. You say you prefer formal language, but Seven explicitly refers to the drug by its formal name. It's not like she calls it reefer, or M.J., or a blunt, or the numerous other informal names. So this is both consistent with her longstanding tendency to make wry sarcastic comments in stressful situations, and with your stated preference for formal language.
no, of course not, you implied.
I never did. Let's put this to bed.
Glory to YOU...AND YOUR POWER BILL.
QUEEN?...QUEEN'S NOT HERE!
And then they write nonsense with it
Of course, in the wake of “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”, I have to amend that with “—unless they specifically say there’s been a change in the timeline; and I’m now forced to admit that it’s always possible that that’s the case.”
In other words, my default assumption remains that (for example) Spock always had a human sister; but I’m now forced to admit to the possibility that he didn’t originally. My default is going to be that if they don’t say there’s been a change, my assumption will be that there hasn’t been; but I’m forced to admit the possibility that there has been. So in a way, it’s up to the individual viewer now.
Well, DSC Season 3 showed the events of TNG Unification still happened with that recording of Spock they watch. There's also mention of Admiral Picard and the Golem from Picard series. So it could just be a very similar timeline, or the only change was the position of the war.
We don't know when the changes to delay the Eugenics Wars actually happened.
So I'm sticking with the changes only effected the position of the war (and possibly La'an's age)
Here's the thing, the issue is indeed verisimilitude. Modern slang doesn't bother you right now, you know when it will? in 30 years when no one is still saying "Pro tip". As noted earlier it's only been in popular use for about 10 years. And it's not just a Berman thing, TOS didn't use 60's slang either. I guarantee TOS wouldn't have aged as well as it has if the characters used phrases like "Groovy", "Bummer", and "Far Out". You'll notice when they did their Hippie episode they invented all new slang, like "Herbert" and "We reach". Gary Mitchell's use of "She's nova" is also a good example.
The Berman era solution was to not use any slang at all, but the actual issue isn't that slang shouldn't be used, it's that it should be 23rd century slang, not 21st. I'm sure the writers are talented enough to come up with some.
The Eugenics Wars always happened when they did the same way Riker and Geordi were always in the cockpit of the Phoenix with Zefram Cochrane. It's only an altered history because we the viewer remember an episode and a movie with different dates being spoken or assume that FC fixed history with a "new but the same" timeline. In-universe nothing changed from the perspective of historians.
O'RLY
From TNG S1 Lonely Among Us
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I guess Geordi served in Vietnam in the 1960s before signing onto the 1701-D in teh 24th century...must really be an 'old soul' eh?