Times Arrow

[Oddish]

More realistic is:
* I go back in time to a November day in 1970.
* I walk past a tall dark haired man in a Navy uniform.
* I accidentally bump into him. The 600 million or so sperm swimming around in his naughties get jostled.
* When he has a passionate night with his wife, a different sperm cell reaches the egg first.
* The sperm that was originally destined to produce me winds up along with 599,999,998 other also-rans.
* I am never conceived, never born, never live, never go back in time, and never prevent my own existence.
* A time paradox occurs.
* The space-time continuum implodes, destroying the universe.

 

[Orphalesion]

Honestly I've never been a fan of any time travel story in Star Trek (excluding Cause and Effect, which was a pretty good episode and isn't so much time travel as a time loop, I guess)
I don't like it when my Science Fiction show goes into the past. I watch historical shows for that.

 

[F. King Daniel]

It's hilarious how durable the space time continuum is in Star Trek. Look at "First Contact"... it never occurs to anyone that Zephram Cochrane's support crew might have played an important part in history, and that when the Borg essentially wiped them out, history might have been seriously changed.

That's why the old Enterprise looks different in Discovery and Strange New Worlds

 

[STEPhon IT]

That's why the old Enterprise looks different in Discovery and Strange New Worlds

Because it's NOT the same universe of TOS despite what many fans of DISCO believe it is.

 

[Oddish]

Fair enough.

 

[NCC-73515]

Because it's NOT the same universe of TOS despite what many fans of DISCO believe it is.

the makers said so. not a matter of fan belief.

 

[F. King Daniel]

They even use footage of "The Cage" and "Unification II", directly reference events of Picard season 1. No doubt it's a mess (I'm pretty sure Disco was conceived as a quasi reboot and plans changed when they decided to go full-on shared universe) but it is what it is.

I offer this alternative explanation:

 

[somebuddyX]

I like Part 1 a lot and I have fond memories because as I was getting into Trek it was the last episode noted in the Chronology and it was the last episode you could watch on VHS here in Australia for a while I feel. So for a long time it was the LAST episode of TNG for me. When they all go into the time portal thingy at the end of the episode it was like the show had finished. I'd read about the episode in the Chronology before seeing it and for some reason I got the TNG structure wrong in my head. I assumed it was like Quantum Leap, which had teasers for the following episode built into the current episode, so I assumed the reveal of Data's head was in the preceding episode to Time's Arrow Part 1, in some kind of stinger. Which I just now realise with that preceding episode being The Inner Light would have been fucking horrendous.

 

[Richard S. Ta]

Because it's NOT the same universe of TOS despite what many fans of DISCO believe it is.

You're welcome to believe that. Doesn't mean you're right.

 

[Orphalesion]

Because it's NOT the same universe of TOS despite what many fans of DISCO believe it is.

And where is the statement from the current creative team that supports your fanon-theroy? Because they are the ones who decide that, not you.

 

[Mutai Sho-Rin]

Because it's NOT the same universe of TOS despite what many fans of DISCO believe it is.

Please keep your anti-DISCO obsession out of these threads. It is very tiresome.

 

[STEPhon IT]

They even use footage of "The Cage" and "Unification II", directly reference events of Picard season 1. No doubt it's a mess (I'm pretty sure Disco was conceived as a quasi reboot and plans changed when they decided to go full-on shared universe) but it is what it is.

I offer this alternative explanation:

I think the avenue JJTrek explained their existence would be a good way to resolve what's on CBS+Trek.

Please keep your anti-DISCO obsession out of these threads. It is very tiresome.

I will try.