When I was a kid and teen, I didn't like TOS much. I actually did think back then that they should make the pylons and hull texture more like the refit, cause they looked silly to me. With every movie, the interiors got better, and the TOS ones were the worst. Then I got older and got more immersed in the whole universe, watching everything, most of it several times, and reading all the tech manuals, collecting almost all the FF issues, getting all the ship models and prop replicas I could get. And it made sense and fit into a chronology. This is how the ship looked in 2266. Same look in all these books, all episodes set in that time, all models of that ship looking consistent. Then along comes a new show that, for the first time, says that the ship actually looked different. Like all the books, magazines, models, and episodes were 'wrong'. Like the chronology of the Enterprise lineage is a 'lie' and never was true. So when confronted with dozens of consistent versions of "that's the Enterprise in 2266", and one different one, the outlier is the 'wrong' one in my mind. Does that help understand where I'm coming from?
The same feeling comes up to a lesser degree when throwaway minor things don't match. When Disco has synthehol 100 years before Data, a living library, introduced it as a new thing to Scotty, it basically says Data, the walking database, is lying.
When Sisko calls the 1701 the first Enterprise, and then ENT says nope, it says Sisko doesn't know his Enterprises. But these things can be explained away with being a preliminary synthehol before the 'real', much more successful synthehol comes along, or Scotty simply not knowing about it cause he always drinks real booze, and with the NX-01 being somewhat ignored (as even suggested on the show when they said Samuels is trying to take all the credit) and the 1701 still being the first Federation Enterprise (since Sisko obviously also didn't mean the naval ships). The Vulcans being aggressive, lying, spying, bad guys was really irritating as well, but then they provided a wonderful explanation and showed how they changed when the Kir'Shara was found. Now it matched with the rest of how Vulcans were depicted. Does anyone find that trilogy unnecessary because no explanation was required? These are my thoughts on that whole issue, and I hope some of it might finally make sense to y'all
Who said it's the end of the world? Perhaps seeing the many shades of gray instead of pure black and white (hyperbolic!) thinking would help move this along before it really does reach a million cycles
The same feeling comes up to a lesser degree when throwaway minor things don't match. When Disco has synthehol 100 years before Data, a living library, introduced it as a new thing to Scotty, it basically says Data, the walking database, is lying.
When Sisko calls the 1701 the first Enterprise, and then ENT says nope, it says Sisko doesn't know his Enterprises. But these things can be explained away with being a preliminary synthehol before the 'real', much more successful synthehol comes along, or Scotty simply not knowing about it cause he always drinks real booze, and with the NX-01 being somewhat ignored (as even suggested on the show when they said Samuels is trying to take all the credit) and the 1701 still being the first Federation Enterprise (since Sisko obviously also didn't mean the naval ships). The Vulcans being aggressive, lying, spying, bad guys was really irritating as well, but then they provided a wonderful explanation and showed how they changed when the Kir'Shara was found. Now it matched with the rest of how Vulcans were depicted. Does anyone find that trilogy unnecessary because no explanation was required? These are my thoughts on that whole issue, and I hope some of it might finally make sense to y'all
Is canon only non-visual, non-auditory information? Only the scripts?
Who said it's the end of the world? Perhaps seeing the many shades of gray instead of pure black and white (hyperbolic!) thinking would help move this along before it really does reach a million cycles
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