Well, at least I got one Math thing right!
As long as Tasha lives I'm fine with the timeline explanation...
The Intersection of Canon and the Prime Timeline
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I go canon in prime timeline... but I've long thought of TOS as only semi-canon anyway *ducks*.
But seriously, I decided in my teens (having already seen lots of TOS before TNG started in the UK) that TOS might be the spirit of Trek, but large portions of it needed to be ignored as "apocrypha" in order for it to make sense as one timeline. Including much of the design aesthetic. To me, everything TMP onwards really pushed TOS visuals into the category of "vague approximation of what it was always meant to look like".
But seriously, I decided in my teens (having already seen lots of TOS before TNG started in the UK) that TOS might be the spirit of Trek, but large portions of it needed to be ignored as "apocrypha" in order for it to make sense as one timeline. Including much of the design aesthetic. To me, everything TMP onwards really pushed TOS visuals into the category of "vague approximation of what it was always meant to look like".
Will it still be canon if they hit the reset button at series finale? I supposed it will be canon, in the sense that the show existed. But if timeline is wiped out, it won’t have any bearing on rest of Star Trek.
Canon is not the same as consistency. In the history of works considered canon with each other, rarely if ever do the individual pieces have much consistency with each other. In fact, Trek has had remarkable consistency in general premises, if not in the specific technologies of the week etc. Until DSC, which has canon connections (Sarek, etc), but no consistency with prior Trek. That said, I don't care if it's canon or consistent, I'd just like it to be good.
It has a lot of consistency. It isn't perfect, but it isn't completely absent.
Canon, takes place in Prime Timeline. It's what I'm going with. How everything fits around it and whatever we want to call everything else, we can debate, though I don't feel like debating it at the current moment.
The Mirror Universe is canon but isn't the Prime Timeline.
This was me as a young trek fan as well, having the Trek encyclopedia and chronology and just seeing how much contradictory information in both made me realise not everything fits.
Discovery is prime timeline, but i honestly wouldn't care if it wasn't either.
True.
Season 1.5 takes place in the Mirror Timeline for the first 67%. The last 33% of 1.5 and all of 1.0 is Prime.
Which all equals to 25% different than prime. You know, for legal reasons.
Depends on where your baseline is. If we are talking superficial details and general concepts, then sure. Beyond that, not so much. I'm not saying that's a bad thing.
Since CBS can't touch anything from the Kelvin movies, I'm curious how they'll deal with Romulus should the Picard series (or anything post-2387) happen.
It's always possible they'll just ignore it. The fandom will just love that
It's like the Romulans are causing problems no matter where you go. Causing issues if they show up in DSC, causing issues if they show up the Picard Series...
... almost like a Romulan Plot to screw over the writers.
... almost like a Romulan Plot to screw over the writers.
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