Trek is 50% fan service. Even TNG couldn't go 178 episodes without bringing in classic TOS characters, ships from the TOS Movie Era or random references to the events of the past and in particular the 23rd Century.
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Wrong? No. I just roll my eyes and hope they actually tell interesting stories rather than "Look! A dedication plaque!" As if that is supposed to inspire my confidence. I'm sure I sounded jaded as
but I would like a little bit more meat to the tiny bread crumbs of pointing to Trek's past. Fan service for fan service's sake is becoming very cringe for me, especially when it is called out.The reference to "old school fans" is what I roll my eyes at. Theoretically, if it is a good story, shouldn't fans be excited? No, just me then, old school or not.
People are confusing.
It's just a prop. I doubt there will be any scenes where the camera actually focuses on it (if there is it will probably be just once).Wrong? No. I just roll my eyes and hope they actually tell interesting stories rather than "Look! A dedication plaque!" As if that is supposed to inspire my confidence. I'm sure I sounded jaded as
Like our best looks of the ones for Discovery, Shenzhou and the Enterprise in DSC Season 2 were all from BTS images or prop replicas.
More the emphasis placed on announcing it. Yes, it's a small irritation but that's where I'm at. The focus is annoying.
It wasn't announced, it was just a picture in an Instagram story from the director of photography.
It wasn't done through any of the official Star Trek or CBS accounts.
It's the fans and the news sites that are blowing it up.
Posted, announced, whatever.
The emphasis is annoying me, and now word games. 
I'm taking a break at this point. Clearly the value is in the little tiny details.
A bit more info from this article at trekmovie.com:
https://trekmovie.com/2021/07/07/an...-trek-strange-new-worlds-begins-finale-shoot/
^^^
But yeah I'm personally very excited for this show and just can't wait to see it. Finally some modern Star Trek I might actually really enjoy (although to be fair I did really enjoy Star Trek Discovery season 2 as well.)
It's just a neat prop. No one is acting like it has higher value than anything else in the series.Posted, announced, whatever.
I'm taking a break at this point. Clearly the value is in the little tiny details.
There's just nothing else to report on for the series, so they're just grabbing what they can.
Not what I said at all. Just let me be annoyed instead of rationalizing away the insistence upon showing off tiny details and exciting "old school fans." Thanks, appreciate it.
We all have our things. This once caught me the wrong way.Sorry, it just seems like an odd thing to be annoyed about to me.
Just ignore it.
Don’t feel bad. You should have seen me when they showed Picard’s Leondegrance award with a ship design from the Enterprise-E lineage for a ship that was supposed to be in service in the 2330’s.
That sounds way worse.
Hell, TNG couldn't go half a pilot--"Look, it's old McCoy!"
And then two episodes later they remake an entire TOS episode. And then despite their plans to have as few old species as possible, they bring the Romulans back for the season finale.
And in that same episode they show a library computer graphic of Kirk's Enterprise.
I like the plaque and how it splits the difference between Starship and Constitution class.
Ah, fan service. It will never end.
It is what it is at this point. Hopefully they will be able to intertwine new adventures with memorable stories with the fan service.
Then you had twenty three other episodes. It isn't so much that fan service bothers me, it is when that is all you have that it does.
It is. And I do expect them to tell new adventures. It's just when they promote it or post about it or whatever the
people do on the social media garbage it's about the fan service. And we're supposed to be like "YAY!" like how people got excited over seeing "Henry McCoy" in X-Men 2 on a TV screen. 
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