Strange New Worlds' showrunners advise fans to write to Skydance and Paramount if they're interested in a "Year One" Kirk sequel series

[Firebird]

It's absolutely not a core feature of Star Trek for it to rewrite its own history, nor is it a particularly welcome one.

Data being in the "Class of '78?" Picard seeing his elderly mother in WNOHGB? Alexander's age? Scotty thinking Kirk came to rescue him in Relics? The early Probert design of the Enterprise-C on the wall of the D's Observation Lounge?

 

[fireproof78]

Data being in the "Class of '78?" Picard seeing his elderly mother in WNOHGB? Alexander's age? Scotty thinking Kirk came to rescue him in Relics? The early Probert design of the Enterprise-C on the wall of the D's Observation Lounge?

I know it's been brought up before but Trill? Romulans? Eugenics Wars? Klingons as part of the Federation? Klingon home world name? "Warriors of Klingon!"

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

Are you trying to argue that any of this was a good thing and they should continue doing it?

 

[Firebird]

Are you trying to argue that any of this was a good thing and they should continue doing it?

You said retcons were "not a core feature," when that's manifestly untrue.

 

[DigificWriter]

Contradictions and retcons are inevitable even in the most meticulously planned IPs. You can either accept that or complain about it, but the latter accomplishes nothing and just "leads to madness... and sweaty palms".

 

[Christopher]

Dude, TOS's first season was constantly changing which century it took place in or the name of the organization the characters served in, and even the name of their government. TNG established there had been no contact with the Romulans for sixty years a handful of episodes after it was mentioned there was a tense showdown against the Romulans going down. And let's not even get started on the Borg, where much of what we now know of them comes from retcons.

Not to mention "Yesterday's Enterprise" then establishing that a Starfleet vessel had been lost in combat with the Romulans only 22 years earlier, which certainly seems like contact.

Data being in the "Class of '78?" Picard seeing his elderly mother in WNOHGB? Alexander's age? Scotty thinking Kirk came to rescue him in Relics? The early Probert design of the Enterprise-C on the wall of the D's Observation Lounge?

Then there's "Peak Performance" in TNG season 2 showing a Starfleet at peace for so long that Picard considered war games a pointless atavism, and then "The Wounded" in season 4 saying that the Federation had been at war with Cardassia until a year before. Then there's Data clearly having real, if subdued, emotions in seasons 1-2 ("I think you should be destroyed"), until the new writers in season 3 saddled him with the hackneyed cliche of "robots can't have emotions."

Are you trying to argue that any of this was a good thing and they should continue doing it?

We're arguing that it's disingenuous to pretend that Star Trek has ever had perfect continuity, and that it's unrealistic to expect any long-running work of fiction from multiple different creators to have perfect continuity, no matter how hard they try. It's not a value judgment or an endorsement, it's just facing reality. Continuity is an ideal worth striving for, yes, but ideals are never actually achieved, only approached.

 

[fireproof78]

Are you trying to argue that any of this was a good thing and they should continue doing it?

Only that it is a feature on a bug and trying to exclude contradictory information is an exercise in futility. I'm not going to pretend newer Trek is lesser for something past Treks did and for some reason people stayed fans.

 

[Nerys Myk]

James R. Kirk? UESPA? Vulcan being conquered? Warp 14.1?

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[Nerys Myk]

Are you trying to argue that any of this was a good thing and they should continue doing it?

It's neither a good thing nor a bad thing. Sometimes the individual "ideas" can be bad, though. Some can be be bloody brilliant. So yes, please continue.