LordChicken
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Seriously.
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Wow. I think they're actually doing this.They could end the season with Discovery's spore drive malfunctioning and dumping them into an alternate universe. Or rather, the prime universe.
Wow. I think they're actually doing this.
Probably to dig themselves out of their continuity hole.GOD WHY!?@?@???????????????S"D:LKFSD:FLSD< Sl'a;ldkg,z/VCv **INCOHERENT**
Apparently they had absolutely nobody who did any significant lore research until they were several episodes in. The war with the Klingons in DSC is supposed to be the mentioned recent war with the Klingons in TOS, but the dates don't line up, for instance. My guess is that the sudden introduction of alternate universes in the mid-season finale is the result of their new (formed after the seventh episode was created, mid-season finale is ninth) panel of experts telling them that DSC's already finished episodes don't quite fit in the timeline. So it really was ignorance and now they're trying to fix it. This also gives them a chance to redo some of the things that proved unpopular, such as the Klingon makeup.Which again brings me back to: So why call it Star Trek?
If you didn't want to play by Trek rules, but knew (because ignorance is a valid, if distasteful excuse) that you weren't playing by those rules, then they could have made a far better series by departing completely from the structure they put themselves in.
There are certainly a ton of issues scattered around, even if we ignore the visuals. For instance, if we say that ENT, DSC, and TOS are all part of the same timeline, then the cloaking device is introduced as a brand-new never-before-seen tech three times. With ENT I could point to the Temporal Cold War and say, "time travel shenanigans," to explain the cloaks and conclude that ENT is in a new timeline distorted from the original, but adding DSC to the mix just doesn't work. Did Kirk, Spock, and everyone else just forget that the Klingons had cloaks and were using them en masse just a few years ago? Did Georgiou, Saru, and Burnham somehow never hear about the Suliban and Romulan use of cloaks going back one hundred years? This is especially irritating when the pilot episode already introduced a Klingon station with an ECM system that could functionally replace a cloak for narrative purposes without contradicting TOS in the slightest.hate that they are trying to shoehorn it into the Prime timeline which it clearly does not fit.
We've got Klingons with hair (they're apparently retconning it that tradition has them shave during war time and grow their hair out during peace; how that works with the wars in TNG and DS9 or why even people who arent part of T'Kuvma's faction are shaved in the first episode, I have no idea), toned down Klingon prosthetics (hopefully the actors can emote now), and a D7 that actually looks like a D7. I'm not sold on what I see of plot, but it's nice to see them correcting some of their mistakes.