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Discovery - Timeline, continuity and other canonical issues [** SPOILERS **]
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main take away if true is corporate pressure to win back more fans
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silverharp wrote: »main take away if true is corporate pressure to win back more fans
The key words here being "if true"; the number of times the narrator said the words "...rumour has it", or "...allegedly," makes me question how much of that is just speculative bullsh*t. It's not a wild theory to suspect the CBS online platform isn't exactly kicking down doors, but that video doesn't make any effort to qualify or quote sources about the CBS-Netflix discussion. Just comes off as typical YouTube blather.
As for the rest, it's clear as day just watching season 1 that rewrites and retooling were going on as the season progressed; it's not like the ructions within the writing team weren't well publicised prior to launch, and the speed with which plots and characters were lashed into a conclusion was telling.
My own speculation, for what it's worth, is that the Enterprise will feature as a one or two episode mini-arc, possibly to launch the larger narrative for the 2nd season; some new Big Bad that Enterprise discovered, only to pass the torch to Discovery to investigate and solve while Pike heads off in the other direction. The Borg perhaps? *gets coat and scarpers*
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The biggest problem with the small tech issues has always been the march of real technology.
It's always really difficult to predict how technology will develop and further to that, there have at times been physical limitations on what could be produced on screen.
At a certain point you have to either break canon or end up with an absolute farce of a TV show that looks like this:
When we're already at a stage where the communicators, computers, holograms, view screens and whatever else are at best decades rather than centuries in the future, and many elements have already been surpassed, it becomes sillier to omit them than stick to canon.
It'd be like having a future series made in 1920 with mysterious wireless transmissions, and then making a sequel in 1950 where you try to pretend there's no such thing as radio.
"This Star Trek universe is the same universe as ours, except it's in the future, although they haven't discovered forks, dual-ply toilet paper or creme bruleés."
Consistency over time in something like Star Wars works a lot better in that regard because there's a level of technological stagnation and sort of techno-western junkyard engineering aesthetic that lends itself to fantastically advanced tech rubbing shoulders with incongruously analog and mechanical designs.
Star Trek has always been a harder sci-fi with a setting in a utopian future of our universe.
Sometimes canonicity is important but for other things you just have to ignore it.0 -
The worst thing about this is this problem was solved until TNG's Relics had this bridge on the holodeck instead of one of the movie ones which they had easier access to.At a certain point you have to either break canon or end up with an absolute farce of a TV show that looks like this:0 -
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4n5TlyBl5Cw
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