Why did SNW alter the Enterprise bridge?

[Ronald Held]

Kirk should only appear at the change of command ceremony.

 

[cooleddie74]

And then Deepfake "Where No Man Has Gone Before(TOS)" William Shatner's face over top of whomever is the body stand-in.

 

[Sci]

I guess I'm a bit more of a literalist than most. I mean, if the corridor suddenly vanishes in between DSC and SNW, I'd hope for an explanation. How can they just pretend it was never there? Was it ever there?

I mean, I don't see how that's any bigger a deal than the major changes in the bridge of the Enterprise-A between TFF and TUC, or the differences between the Enterprise-D bridge between "All Good Things..." and GEN, or the differences in the Defiant bridge between seasons three and four, or the differences between the HMS Bounty bridge between TSFS and TVH.

The only reason I would ever want to see Kirk turn up in SNW is so we could see his first meeting with Spock.

There's also the Farragut disaster, but then they'd have to explain why KIrk and Pike don't meet. (That doesn't happen until Pike actually turns over command of the Enterprise to Kirk.)

I mean, in fairness, it wouldn't be that difficult to construct an episode where someone from the Enterprise joins the Farragut crew for the disaster and works with Kirk before returning to the Enterprise, all without Pike ever being part of the show.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Kirk will show up on Strange New Worlds. No doubt.

 

[Ronald Held]

Short of the end of the series, is it really necessary to see Kirk McCoy, etc?

 

[cooleddie74]

No.

Not even in the slightest.

 

[El Maestro]

No it shouldn’t

I think some fans can’t help themselves.

I think the updates look good. Some of the technology on the TOS bridge is already obsolete, like CRT monitors. I also don’t care if they lose that little sensor scope thing Spock looks into. It’s wildly impractical and we are already able to do better.

 

[Starbreaker]

It's not necessary, but we all know that Pike is going to pass command over to Kirk in the series finale.

 

[fireproof78]

It's not necessary, but we all know that Pike is going to pass command over to Kirk in the series finale.

We do?

 

[C.E. Evans]

They could throw a curveball and have Pike give command of the ship to Spock and name Kirk as first officer.

Oh wait..

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Short of the end of the series, is it really necessary to see Kirk McCoy, etc?

I can see at least one way McCoy could turn up: They might do a story about his time on Capella ("Friday's Child"). IIRC, that's due to occur sometime in SNW's time frame.