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What's the worst canon decision in the history of Trek?

Well, the TOS movies. And there was plenty of speculation about it. Tie-in stuff like novels and RPG sourcebooks even offered some pretty detailed explanations.

Kor


I guess I'm an exception, I've never needed an in-universe explanation for why post TOS Klingons look different.

When I saw the new Klingon look in TMp when it came out, I hardly gave it a second thought. They had a movie budget, the art of makeup had been refined since the '60s and they weren't going to try to make everything look exactly the way they did in TOs. I didn't need Roddenberry to tell me they were always supposed to look that way.

Robert
 
The look of the Klingons has changed continuously since the end of TOS until now. I mean look at Worf example. His head is much more brutish in season one of TNG than in say DS9. I mean he no longer has that "eat a good book lately" look he sports in TNG.
 
I've pondered this question for a little while ("worst canon decision")...
....Changing the Klingons in the 80s movies, and then canonically showing that they actually physically changed in the 80s movies in DS9.....is really high for me.

....Having Spock and Nero travel back to an 'alternate timeline' for the JJ-verse is another mess......
 
I don't like that (Archer's) Enterprise is artificially forced to ignore obvious technological improvements because of "canon". I mean if the price of canon is making the heroes look like idiots then it's too high. I mean, they meet with the holodeck/holographic technology TWICE and both times all they had to do is ask to acquire it ("Unexpected" and "Oasis") So why didn't they? It doesn't make any sense and that's a lousy way of keeping "canon" straight. Same thing with cloaking technology. Trip learns to use the Suliban cloaking device (You'd think he'd put his findings in a technical journal or something) but he doesn't and they forget all about it. Archer even gets cloak piercing technology and uses it at least on another occasion. So why would it be forgotten? As I said that doesn't make any sense and that's bad storytelling.

Why would they just give their tech to us?

as for the rest; forgetting technical advancements is par for the course with Trek. Starfleet officers should by all rights be immortal telekinetic superspeedsters in force field belts.

I always through the holographic technology was more the nature of the graphics and usability than the technology itself. The Enterprise in TAS had a holographic room of some sort, DIS has a similar weapons training room. For all we know, the holodeck first shown in Encounter at Farpoint was, to Riker's eyes at least, something so high definition and a UX first that it did blow him away.

That's always been my assumption. Maybe those aliens from Enterprise with the holodecks finally joined the Federation while the Galaxy class was being designed and we got access to that tech with 200 years of further development.

I've pondered this question for a little while ("worst canon decision")...
....Changing the Klingons in the 80s movies, and then canonically showing that they actually physically changed in the 80s movies in DS9.....is really high for me.

Meh. The Enterprise explanation works fine for me.

....Having Spock and Nero travel back to an 'alternate timeline' for the JJ-verse is another mess......

I'd rather those take place in an alternate timeline than the main one (especially Into Darkness).
 
....Changing the Klingons in the 80s movies, and then canonically showing that they actually physically changed in the 80s movies in DS9.....is really high for me.
That will always stand out to me. It didn't need the wink-wink in DS9 and ENT further compounded the issue.
 
That will always stand out to me. It didn't need the wink-wink in DS9 and ENT further compounded the issue.
As I've long maintained, the better wink would have been Dorn appearing in TOS style Klingon make up and no one batting an eye.
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Though I imagine a few fan meltdowns might have occurred. :lol:
 
My addition to the list is actually the decision NOT to canonize the Duane "Rihannsu" books. Best treatment of the Romulans EVER.
I don´t like to be nitpicker, but, hey, that is what this thread is for... This is the root of some trouble, that literature probably many times came up with more interesting and more realistic cultures than the screen did.
 
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