This is the so called "Prime" Timeline. What is the original Star Trek is the "Alpha" Timeline.
I know that is the first thing that hit me. Why couldn't they have at least gave a nod back to the more functional slanted panel. How difficult for that poor transporter chief. Red Shirts always get the shite end of the stick.
See.. No.. I can't get that feeling I'm looking at a toy someone sat on and squished the nacelles down, and out, while making the neck squish in with a flatter saucer. I'm just not a fan of this design. gorgeous shots or not, tho they are pretty shots. I just don't like this iteration. I am intriguiged to see what it would look like with the slight refit for Kirk's time. I sure hope they don't do the TMP version. That would be skipping too far ahead.some screen caps of the enterprise in the new short trek "the trouble with edward":
I also removed the line because there isn't a canon source.
If they didn’t care about canon they would have made it a different universe, and wouldn’t have flung Discovery into the 32nd century to avoid it.
I absolutely LOVED that ending.
Well the way I look at it is like this..
believes or states is canon with this series and direction from CBS. The only real way to rationalize what they've done is separate timelines. So, Alpha timeline happened, then when Spock went back in time, and the Romulans went back in time, the Kelvin universe was born. But because of the birth of the Kelvin timeline. But that Spock wasn't the Alpha timeline Spock, but was the Prime timeline Spock. So Alpha timeline is a closed system. It could be argued that at the end of TNG when time was unraveling that Picard and Q somehow gave birth to the Prime timeline when the universe was devolving, and subsequently put right. That originally without B's intervention, the Alpha timeline was to end, had he not got involved. Assuming the Q exist with access to all realities. So that is how I at least rationalize it. So yes, the Prime timeline is birthed from the Alpha, but it isn't the Alpha. Its new and better tech is a result of the reformatting of the universe, by Picard's actions to undo it's erasure.I have always thought that certain parts of the ships should be modular and removable, such as the Bridge plus Battle Bridge, Impulse Engines, Weapon Pods (specifically the energy feed to them), Sensor Dish and Nacelles unless the design of the ship wont allow it (Magee for instance), same goes for the Warp Core if possible as well.
The USS Enterprise, the ultimate ship of Theseus.
That's like saying a 3D monitor and a regular monitor and a 4K monitor aren't interchangeable with the same computer. But they are. Same for a Geforce 2080TI video card being interchangeable with a weaker Geforce 670. I see no reason why starships would be different, and we have canon modules in the Kelvin universe.
