It works for other franchises.
Gundam is full of AU's (Alternate Unverse's).
Sometimes it's better to have less friction.
Why the hate for Alex Kurtzman?
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Gundam is full of AU's (Alternate Unverse's).
Sometimes it's better to have less friction.
The Vatican II council, but dumber.
Exactly, that's why Fandom is so complex.
Single timeline or multiverse, it doesn't matter if the stories aren't compelling.
That's the job of having a good writing room.
In general, I agree to a point.
However, if that's the view then canon policing because unnecessary. But, the other side of that coin is the fact that humans tend to build their fan lore up and then get disappointed over the writers not reading their minds.
The reason I say what I say is because I see the variations of rules applied by fans only for a writer but maligned for not following a rule they couldn't possibly know existed.
Which can be done without having to be a slave to canon.
I agree that change is a good thing to keep things fresh and that a handover wouldn’t be a bad idea within the next few years.
But just to turn this around, I don’t think Kurtzman is particularly involved with much day-to-day writing, and he’s got a lot of different writers doing that with more always coming in. The talent pool seems pretty good to me. I’m interested to see what kind of show Starfleet Academy is going to be.
The difference with the Berman era is that things were going well for him when he had two shows and a movie to oversee, so he naturally was less involved in the minutiae. Things took a turn when that focus narrowed to just one show, and he took it upon himself to be a more active part of the writers’ room.
Maybe that’s a risk today if Paramount keeps ending shows, but there’s still a couple in production and more in development.
If you're overbearing on canon to the degree that it changes stories, good writers simply aren't going to want to work for that production. They'll find better opportunities, and the canon warriors get left with the dregs.
I think we have a de facto ‘soft multiverse’ already, with the hints in DSC/SNW about the timeline being in flux due to time travellers and Temporal Wars.
But they’re not going to come out and say it, because then fans will demand that everything is sorted into boxes so they know what they can deem to be “real” Star Trek, defeating the whole purpose of a multiverse. Which is to give writers more freedom to avoid the crushing burden of continuity.
More than that, the writers and actors who stay won't be working on good dramatic moments or character interactions but trying to paint over all the supposed inconsistencies to maintain versimiltude with a show they didn't write.
There is an argument to be made for no prequels because the perspective of the writer changing means a limit on a character out by one writer might be ignored.
I was recently watching a YouTube video on the Riddick franchise, a franchise I find really fascinating. But, one thing the reviewer noted was the main reason the Riddick character felt so consistent from film, to video game to comic was that Disel was a part of all of those in some way.
Trek doesn't have that luxury.
I've mentioned this before, but I found it amusing during the first episode of LDS season 5 that the Cerritos crew from the alternate universe believed their universe was the 'prime' one. I know it was meant to be humorous, but it really put things into perspective. As in, 'prime' is just a buzzword that doesn't really matter in the big scheme of things, and people take it far too seriously, more seriously than the people producing these shows.
All that pointed out was that "Prime" as a concept is relative to each individual and what Multiverse they come from.
That's why I have no issue with the Multi-verse & Multiple Prime TimeLines.
It literally solves so many inconsistency issues.
I wish more people would give it a chance.
Fans taking a show too seriously is a very common affliction.
Yes. Which is why the word ultimately has no meaning.
Star Trek in a nutshell.
It didn't change a thing.
So why were you arguing for canon police in the writers' room, then? Pick an argument and stick with it.
There is more to "Canon" than the Multi-verse.
Trust me, there are other issues that can be conflicted upon.
There is no reason for canon police. If they tell good stories, they'll be fine. Fans aren't dumb, we can piece shit together if we feel the need.
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