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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x01 - "Hegemony, Part II"

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The designs aren't my main concern, the constant breaking of canon is.
If we are going to retcon everything then why would the audience even bother with the universe?
ENT's Klingon first contact being on Earth itself was enough lunacy.
Now we have this Gorn encounter + Trelane being Q stupid bs.
Last season everybody knew who T'Pring was but by the time of ToS nobody remembers!
 
The designs aren't my main concern, the constant breaking of canon is.
If we are going to retcon everything then why would the audience even bother with the universe?
ENT's Klingon first contact being on Earth itself was enough lunacy.
Now we have this Gorn encounter + Trelane being Q stupid bs.
Last season everybody knew who T'Pring was but by the time of ToS nobody remembers!
Tell that to the Show Runners of the franchise currently.

Everybody has their theories as to what is really going on within the Franchise Universe, but they insist on saying "Everything is Canon", despite obvious conflicts.

They present obvious solutions, but they don't want to admit to it.

So it's on them to sort things out.
 
Canon is whatever gets onscreen, no matter how award-winning and well-regarded or unfathomably boring or stupid. Continuity is whatever the IP holder says is the official sequence of in-universe events and how it all connects to the rest of the franchise.
 
If Trek has shown that the Xindi can have 6× very different species come from the same home planet?

Why can't there be different Reptilian Sub-Species coming from the same Home World?

Each one looks significantly different, but all are part of the same "Gorn Hegemony".

One looks like TOS Gorn, the other ENT Gorn, the other SNW Gorn.

Just like Klingons can have many physical variations, Gorn can have the same as well.

Let's not forget that the Andorians have their Sub-Species cousins in the Aenar.

Vulcans have the Off-Shoot Species in "The Romulans".
I agree. But many seem to disagree.
The problem is nothing about the "new" Gorn really works.

Their "reproduction" is more at home on a bioweapon then anything that could have naturally evolved to the point of sentience.

Their intelligence flips between "completely instinct driven predator" and "intelligent space-faring race" depending on what the writers want them to do at any point in time.

And the less said about the magic solar flares the better.
Then pivot and reveal these particular Gorn to be the Tzenkethi, since that species is a blank slate, and would fit in with the discovering a strange new world motif.
 
I can totally picture the Tzenkethi as a reptillian species with extreme territoriality tendencies and encroaching on neighboring space to pillage resources for their food stocks.
 
The designs aren't my main concern, the constant breaking of canon is.
If we are going to retcon everything then why would the audience even bother with the universe?
ENT's Klingon first contact being on Earth itself was enough lunacy.
Now we have this Gorn encounter + Trelane being Q stupid bs.
Last season everybody knew who T'Pring was but by the time of ToS nobody remembers!
I feel Exactly the same way. I like the production values overall. Well except for the idiotic turbolift interior, Klingon makeup and ship being rescaled.

But they could have made it with a lot of new characters and the ones we saw in the menagerie. But they decided to go with 80% characters from after Pikes time. It seems so forced and just doesn't fit no matter how people are trying to make it fit. It is what it is though.

I am happy for those who enjoy it though.
 
Canon is whatever gets onscreen, no matter how award-winning and well-regarded or unfathomably boring or stupid. Continuity is whatever the IP holder says is the official sequence of in-universe events and how it all connects to the rest of the franchise.

Sure. So I need to know why Starships need a turbolift interior the size of a city. I'm still scratching my head on that awful decision. I think it must be the worst production decision In all of Trek. One that will bother me till the day I die. Even the Jupiter 2 with its three levels at the end of season 3 of LIS is more believable and easier to suspend disbelief compared to turbo-gate😂
 
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