Subj : Where in the Star Trek universe now
To   : Ennev
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Aug 31 2021 13:02:48

  Re: Where in the Star Trek universe now
  By: Ennev to Nightfox on Tue Aug 31 2021 02:04 pm

 >> I like that Star Trek is stil an ongoing thing.  But I'd rather have
 >> seen them push forward (as they have done with Star Trek: Picard),
 >> and/or see something set between the original series and the Next
 >> Generation.  We didn't see much of that era; we only saw small
 >> glimpses, such as one episode showing the Enterprise C and a movie
 >> that briefly showed the Enterprise B. 

 En> I just miss that in a way it's was more optimistic in the past, even 
 En> during TNG etc.

I miss that too.

 En> But Discovery and Picard, it's more dark, pessimistic. In 
 En> TNG/Voyager/DS9 thing where no always looking bright for the federation 
 En> etc, but the federation held to it's value mostly and resolved things.

I thought DS9 was a little dark at times.  DS9 seemed a little different than other Star Trek series.
Even Star Trek: Enterprise seemed a little dark at times.

 En> So I prefer that they go forward in time instead of tying to insert 
 En> stuff inside the already established timeline. It's way harder for 
 En> writers, they are stuck with situation where they have to take into 
 En> account of continuity and with such a long history it's almost 
 En> impossible to do, also it gives them a lot more freedom because now they 
 En> can do what they want, don't have to remember that species X only 
 En> appeared in TNG, and that conflict with species happened for Y reasons, 
 En> so you can't play with that because you now brake canon and people get 
 En> pissed.

Even if they go forward in time, they'd have to deal with Star Trek's history.. And it seems the writers have already had trouble with Star Trek's continuity sometimes, even in the 90s.  There are a couple glaring mistakes I can think of off the top of my head:

- In the Star Trek TNG episode "Relics", Scotty said he thought Kirk brought
the Enterprise out of mothballs to come rescue him.  However, before that, Scotty was with Kirk on the Enterprise B (in the movie 'Generations') when Kirk was presumed dead after their encounter with the Nexus.  Generations was written after Relics; it seems they forgot about Scotty's line in Relics though.

- In the movie Nemesis, they had a photo of Picard at the academy.  However, he looked different than they showed Picard at the academy in the TNG episode "Tapestry".

Nightfox

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