The Intersection of Canon and the Prime Timeline
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Well, it's because he was in his prime when he traveled back in time.Indeed:
My bad jokes quota for the day is officially filled!
There you go, I suppose there is a lot of money in licensing, so that makes sense. It really would be interesting to find out the history of 25% since no one can find any precedent for it. Perhaps CBS lawyers know something no one else does.
I'm not sure Star Trek canon really has any bearing on our "best interests"
Thank you! I was scratching my head over that, too. Wasn't sure when the finer points of STAR TREK "canon" and art direction became a matter of public welfare.
Yup, just a random word Paramount threw in there. This juggling act over canon is getting boring again.
It isn't random, it's to distinguish TOS Spock from Kelvin Spock.Yup, just a random word Paramount threw in there. This juggling act over canon is getting boring again.
Picking "prime" in particular, could just as easily have been any other word, the fans are the ones that cling to it as something more than that.
Good point about 40s Batman. I think we jump to West because the 60s just makes a more natural parallel for 60s trek example purposes.
DSC is arguably an adaptation of Trek featuring similar lore, plot points, species names, etc, but entirely as disparate from TOS storytelling, tone, and general execution as West's show is from Bale's. Ditto for the Kelvin films. Adaptation is a perfect word here, considering all the hoopla around the words prime or reboot or canon. No original creators are involved, nor any legacy BTS folks who worked directly with the original creators, the closest are some producers in name only and Eaves (who worked under Berman) doing his best to make TOS era look like a different era. We don't want to think of it as an adaptation because we seem to want some sort of single linear Trek future history, but that's clearly not what is at play here. DSC is free to do it's own thing and mentions and references things the same way Gotham does, and none of those references make Gotham a prequel to any specific pre-existing Batman. The fact that Trek has tried to keep its shows in continuity in the past leads you to think they still are, but that semblance of continuity required distance (or only glancing contact) with the TOS time period.
TLDR: new creators are doing something totally different with the TOS era. It IS an adaptation. It is in a vague (at most) continuity with other Treks. That doesn't make it any less canon though.
Indeed:
Spock Prime comes after Optimus Prime and Rodimus Prime, right? Ba-dum-bum
I hear, they're gonna be the primeary focus of that Trek/Transformers comic crossover!
I haven't bought a comic in years. But I'll pick that one up.
It even has the TAS cartoon style:
Fuck that's awful
I want "Spock Twooooo!!!!!" vs. Devastator. 
I want "Spock Twooooo!!!!!" vs. Devastator.
Maybe Kirk, Spock, Bones, Scotty, Sulu and Uhura will combine to form a giant robot called Trekkertron or Enterprisor
I can’t afford Prime steak and have to make do with some from a parallel timeline.
It even has the TAS cartoon style:
The furries are gonna have a party over that one.
It even has the TAS cartoon style:
Will definitely pick up the TPB when its available. Loved the Planet of the Apes, Green Lantern and Legion of Super-Heroes crossovers.
I don't see how.
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