I am starting to wonder if there is some bad blood behind the scenes, between people working on different shows because some of the current shows have started contradicting EACH OTHER.
Example 1: Discovery shows a TOS-accurate Gorn skeleton, and Lower Decks introduces TOS Gorn, but then SNW turns Gorn into Xenomorph ripoffs
Example 2: Lower Decks and Prodigy (and Picard, with a skull) use the familiar Ferengi design, while Discovery changes them.
Example 3: SNW immediately replaces virtually every prop from Discovery Seasons 1 and 2, and immediately changes uniforms. The old props and uniforms are never seen onscreen with the exception of the Discovery Klingon disruptor, and the semi exception of the EV suits being slightly modified versions of the ones from Discovery S2.
Example 4: Discovery has a new Andorian design, and Picard and Lower Decks stick to the ENT design. (Discovery in early seasons has some ENT Andorians in the background however). Neither Picard nor Lower Decks show any DSC style Andorians.
Example 5: Discovery, Picard, and Lower Decks (until S2) EACH have a different Tellarite design and stick to it. However Lower Decks throws in a tusked Tellarite in Season 2 so that gives me some hope. And people working on Prodigy have said that their show will acknowledge all versions of Tellarites as coexisting.
Example 6: Picard reconciles the ridged and non ridged Romulan designs as “Northern” and “Southern” Romulans. SNW, in “A Quality of Mercy”, ONLY shows the “Northern” variety for some reason.
Example 7: Discovery and SNW exclusively show their version of the Constitution class, and Prodigy and Picard show the TOS version on displays. (Picard also shows the DSC S2 version in S1)
Example 8: The food synthesizers on Discovery are never called replicators onscreen in order to maintain canon. They are mistakenly called replicators in a set tour, but that’s it. However, SNW immediately swaps out Discovery’s TOS inspired food synthesizer design for a completely different design without the sliding door, and explicitly places replicator labels on the set.
This is concerning. The shows shouldn’t even be contradicting each other this much. Hopefully it will get better. Aaron J Waltke (works on Prodigy) has mentioned that the people working on the shows are talking to each other to maintain consistency as of when he stated this; but it’s unclear if, or to what extent this HAS BEEN the case always or if communication has increased recently due to these contradictions popping up.
One thing that really got me concerned was that a while ago I was watching a Trekyards video and one of them claimed that “we know people who are working on lower decks who don’t like discovery”. What?! Now I know that Trekyards are not exactly #1 reliable sources all the time but……if it’s true I hope they meant minor people who don’t influence the major decisions.
