Would you accept a flexible Star Trek timeline?
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Who is silencing or running out anyone? It’s not a matter of personal preference if you have a tie-in that needs consistent illustrations (like a technical manual or an in-universe history of uniforms). The basic rule is “What would the parent show do?”
But Spock’s arrival in Short Treks happens before.
Of course there is no reason to reject anything that can fit easily (mostly in terms of story), but I also want to force inconsistencies out into the open, to see them addressed head-on in terms of tie-ins that do have to use consistent diagrams (unlike novels which can fudge the issue in text).
Novels and in-universe books about tech and stuff.
Ultimately it will become a square peg and a round hole. Largely because of variations in production design and techniques and only fans who worry about such things are trying to force the issue.
Again, the operational authority may be the reason why if we the same variation. In the Cage, we see references to United Earth Probe Agency, and Kirk states they operate under that authority in TOS. So, they might have their own uniform variants that allow captain's discretion.
Any product based on Trek. Novels, books, videogames etc.
I see no reason to suck the fun out of the universe. In Star Trek III, they used Franz Joseph diagrams to represent the Enterprise, and we all survived.
Boy, my Care-O-Meter has really bottomed out now.
When the New World Order comes, and your status in society is dependent on your knowledge of tie-in Star Trek minutiae, you are going to be in BIG trouble.
That’s just a production error with an obvious fix (don’t do it in a tech manual). However, neither TOS nor DSC are errors and they cannot occupy the same physical reality, so a tie-in must be clear on its parent show.
Most tie-ins already seem to be. Discovery novels/comics are labeled as such and carry imagery from that show, TOS novels/comics are labeled as such and carry imagery from that show.
In universe guides are a fool’s errand. Always assured to be obsolete practically before they hit the shelves. Write about the TV show/films not the universe.
Personally, I enjoy the technical manuals and such, but this is absolutely right. Like the proposed Nova-class in the TNG Technical Manual has no resemblance to the Nova-class from Voyager.
But that was just a proposed concept, not a real class. In fact the TNG tech manual is hardly obsolete because it’s not like TNG would go into that much detail on how the transporter works, for example, whereas character interpretations are bound to become obsolete if the parent show takes a different direction (which is what’s been going on with DSC novels so far).
It would've already been a real class in universe.
Yup . Kirk's interpretation of what agency he works for might be wrong now.. 
Yup . Kirk's interpretation of what agency he works for might be wrong now..
Actually Voyager and Enterprise fixed that by adding UESPA as a sub-organization to Starfleet.
Not if the Nova class began as the Noble class, which was the original production name on VGR. It could’ve been renamed at the very end, thus settling the direction of Nova-class concepts.
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