But … I thought the 2009 film was an origin story?

It was literally the story of how the Kelvinverse came to exist and it followed Kirk, Spock, McCoy and co from their Academy days.

That was my thought, I’m quite up for this. I enjoyed The Voyage Home, I enjoyed The Trouble with Tribbles - I wouldn’t want all Trek to be like that but there is absolutely a place in the franchise for light-hearted takes on Trek.

But removing Discovery from the timeline seems to be consistent with the prime timeline post-Discovery season 2 (in TOS etc) - e.g. Spock not talking about his human adopted sister, no further use of spore drives, and so on. It’s certainly explicitly the timeline of SNW (which makes multiple references to the events of Discovery s2) and therefore the timeline of Lower Decks.

That suggests the prime timeline as we know it is an altered timeline caused by Discovery’s jump to the future.

last couple of Picard seasons

I mean, that’s a pretty astonishing statement to throw out there, grouping together probably the worst single season of Star Trek with one of the best…

Worf’s Klingon prosthetics literally changed between season 1 and seasons 2-7 of TNG. This obviously raises serious continuity issues about whether seasons 2-7 of TNG are even canon…

https://screenrant.com/star-trek-worf-tng-klingon-makeup-change-reason/

Okay, but that’s not really what they did with Sela.

Sela wasn’t ‘Tasha returned’ - she had nothing in common with Tasha (in terms of personality or her role in the show) except for being played by the same actress. She clearly wasn’t just a backdoor soap opera route for Tasha to return.

Also she was only actually in four episodes (on the first of which the character wasn’t identified and Denise Crosby was an uncredited voice only). Sela’s brief appearances were so memorable that we tend to forget how minor her role actually was across the span of TNG - Tomalak had a bigger role, for example.

The Host - the one where Riker ends up hosting the symbiont.

JMS has been trying to distil and bottle it unsuccessfully for years. He told an amazing five-year story over B5’s first four seasons*, but then each time he goes back to tell more stories in that universe it becomes more and more clear that he can’t come up with anything capable of standing next to what he’s already done there.

*Context: they crammed the planned s4 and s5 into s4 because they thought they would get cancelled, but then they got unexpectedly renewed so JMS had to write what was effectively an epilogue s5.

This is fantastic.

Yes! Have you met humans?

My favourite streaming TV service is Ansonmount+.

He thought this was a serious account, and loved it.

Either Ricardo Montalbán or Walter Koenig (I forget which of them used to tell this story) head canons it that Khan had to use the (never seen) Enterprise toilets after Ensign Chekov when he was still a lower decker, and Chekov had used the last of the toilet paper, which is why Khan burnt his face into his memory.

Harry and Tuvok, their answers contradicting.

Apologies, the most confounding thing. We appear to be shredding.

Merry Christmas to you … and your house!

He’s Tuvix … but sexy!

‘Deanna! Deanna! DEANNAAAAAA!’

‘WHAT?!’

‘Neutral Zone.’

Picard likes diplomacy; and where he can, avoids fights. With the first link the chain is forged, THERE ARE FOUR LIGHTS!

Sabatage. Posthuus. Leut.