Discovery - Timeline, continuity and other canonical issues [** SPOILERS **]

Gbear

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.

Evade

Gbear wrote: »

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:

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.

jmcc

This wasn't Star Trek. It was more like Snowflakes in Space who were more interested in exploring their feelings than exploring Space. Season 2 needs to have better writers if it is to recover ST fans and gain new ones.

Regards...jmcc

Kuva

It was ok, they should never have went near alternate universe stuff, all of that was crap, very nearly dropped it.

Evade

Just watching DS9's the Way of the Warrior and it really goes to show how lackluster the battle scenes in STD are.