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Star Trek: Strange New Worlds 3x02 - "Wedding Bell Blues"

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But without continuity and consistency stories lose cohesion and if we stop caring about connectivity then we never have series or sagas.

Stories are an art form and must be carefully crafted. Failings of continuity are absolutely failings of the story. Whether your plot contradicts what you are meant to be a sequel/prequel to as much as if it contradicts itself.
NOPE.
 

OK, I've never heard of that ship. Where'd you get that?


More specifically, the Lydia Sutherland (a combination of the names of two ships commanded by Horatio Hornblower) comes from Vonda McIntyre's1986 Giant Star Trek novel, ENTERPRISE: THE FIRST ADVENTURE.

(Sorry for the flipped response that puts Nerys Myk's reply above your question. I somehow screwed up the quote function and can't figure out how to fix it.)
 
I’m late in commenting, but I liked this episode OK. Certainly less than the season premiere, but I hardly soured on it. In fact, I’m not sure there has been a single bad episode of Strange New Worlds in my mind. It’s just that romantic comedy isn’t my thing, so yeah, it was never destined to rank highly. And, while I’ve never been a canonista, I will admit to a feeling of overarching awkwardness over the creative decision to have made Spock into this sort of character for episodes which have centered on his love life. It is what it is!
 
Well, Star Trek isn't a saga. From TAS on, it's additional stories based on a 1960's TV show created by Gene Roddenberry.

I've said this many times, but no matter how much Trekkies want Star Trek to be Lord of the Rings in space, it was constructed to be The Twilight Zone on a starship.
 
yeah iirc the TOS writers bible even stated Kirk commanded a 'destroyer type' vessel before the Enterprise.

I think SNW's Farragut could classify as that.
Farragut was supposed to be Constitution Class, wasn't she? Of course, if SNW Farragut is something else that's just one more data point in the 'alternate universe' matrix.
 
Farragut was supposed to be Constitution Class, wasn't she?
She was never given a class in canon before SNW.

She was assumed to be connie by fans and non-canon works, probably because that was the only canon ship class in that time period at that point.

Although no official registry or class was established during the TOS-era when this ship was mentioned, both the Star Trek Concordance and the Star Trek Encyclopedia, 4th ed., vol. 1, p. 262, using the information created by Greg Jein in his The Case of Jonathan Doe Starship article, identified this ship as a Constitution-class heavy cruiser with the registry number NCC-1647. Doug Drexler reiterated this on his Drexfiles blog. In the Star Trek Encyclopedia (4th ed., vol. 1, p. 262), there was a starboard profile pictured of the Farragut as a Constitution-class vessel.

Many other publications, beginning with The Making of Star Trek, p. 165 and Franz Joseph's Star Fleet Technical Manual, listed the Farragut as a Constitution-class heavy cruiser. The Technical Manual. giving the ship a registry of NCC-1702, also listed the vessel as being destroyed, as does The Making of Star Trek, although there was no canon evidence supporting that assertion.

 
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