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The existence of time travel and the idea of a Temporal Cold War suggests that any given future is just one of many possible futures. The events in Discovery are canon, insofar as they did happen, but whether future Star Trek properties will take the Discovery future as a given is a more open question. Discovery was written very deliberately to avoid being constrained by canon, but that also means that the events are narratively very removed from the rest of the franchise.

My guess is that whoever ends up in charge of making the next chapter of Star Trek will want to establish their own timeline going forward for the same reason that the Discovery creators did, and they’ll largely ignore the easily-ignorable Discovery events, at least as relates to the far future. The alternative is either to set the next series in an even more distant future, which comes with its own issues, or setting it before the 31st century and having to write around a whole bunch of barely-established future canon that only applies to Discovery. I could be wrong, but it seems like the path of least resistance.

I’ve seen every episode of both shows and this didn’t occur to me once. She doesn’t even look different, she’s just a great actress.

I have nothing to add here other than that I’m impressed with both your in-universe rationale and TV production rationale. This is solid Daystrom work and I hope we get to see the Trek Voltron. Even if it’s not a literal anthropomorphic robot-ship, I think you’re onto something.

The backbone of the fleet, no question.

Oof, this might be the thing that gets me to lose myself in a Paradox game.

The Orville is a deeply sincere homage made by someone who clearly both loves and understands Star Trek. It is, in many ways, more true to form than some of the recent Trek shows and movies, and it deserves to be considered an honorary part of the franchise. I hope we see more of it.

Give us full 20+ episode seasons, cowards! I want bottle episodes, slice of life stories, maybe a few two-parters here and there. Star Trek was born as an episodic network tv show meant to run from fall to summer. Let it breathe.

He and Bashir should have hooked up at least once.

Bahaha, in the mirror universe, Elon Musk died a pauper while trying to prevent the eugenics wars.

It rules that the Mirror Universe guy was a Musk fan. Possibly not an intentional dig, but it’s pitch-perfect in retrospect. I love Lorca. What a fun character.

lmao flawless

This is dope. I didn’t realize that there was so much consistency with the annular engines on Vulcan vessels.

I love the idea that Vulcans would choose the most efficient design, foregoing performance, versatility, speed, etc. Very “I’m only driving to and from work, I don’t need anything flashy.” That’s exactly how Vulcans would design their ships.

I like Bozeman as Zephram Chocoran’s home base because there’s a good chance that Montana might have been spared a direct nuclear strike. Same logic applies to why San Francisco looks so futuristic: it for sure got flattened entirely by a nuke, so they would have had to build it back up from nothing afterwards. I’m guessing the Golden Gate was still partly standing and they rebuilt it for the same reason we keep other historical buildings/monuments around.

No idea if any of that is canon, but if we aren’t overthinking Star Trek then why are we doing any of this?

Rick Berman was the executive producer on Enterprise. Given that he was born-and-raised in New York City, it’s possible that the answer is, like, Westchester.

Have they really? That’s pretty great. TAS does have all the same actors from TOS doing the voices, it doesn’t get much more legit than that.

I like this breakdown, particularly the contrast between Ortegas and Paris. I think Ortegas is a better overall character, and gets big points for having her skills and progress matter to her character development. Paris, though, was an elite pilot before he showed up on Voyager, and then he spent years doing the most insane piloting anyone in Starfleet has ever seen. Ortegas is sort of the ideal of a relatable, blue-collar pilot with a promising career ahead of her, whereas Paris was a savant when he left with Voyager and a legend when he got home. He’s a tier above everyone else on the list, you gotta hand it to him.

I have a soft spot for it because they did an episode that added Larry Niven’s Kzinti to the Star Trek universe. I know TAS isn’t usually considered canon, but that was fun.

My apologies, I assumed 1 and 4 were about treatment of other users, rather than more broadly.

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