They’re making Enterprise decontamination gel jokes!
This is why I love Lower Decks. EVERYTHING is canon. Especially the stuff the writers would have loved to have buried and forgotten.
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The amount of stuff from TAS they’ve directly and indirectly referenced makes me feel like part of Mike McMahon’s mission with the show is to ensure the debate about whether it’s canon or not never comes up again
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so handsome, much wow!
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Some Trek fans are saying SNW is part of another universe, as the chronology of some characters doesn’t fit in the canon.
What do you think?
I think If It is true, I like this particular universe more than the Kelvin one.
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Well, canon is always kind of slippery thing… it’s always being changed and ret-conned by new stories… So it probably depends on what the show runners are thinking. At this point, it seems like they mean it to be in the prime universe. I’m going with that, until they say other wise? It’s certainly an interesting conceit, though, opening up yet another universe (along side the Mirror universe and the kelvin one). It might be worth expanding on that, in fact and would not be averse to it in principle.
Totally agree about the Kelvin universe. They’re… fine, I guess. But they come off as just regular old sci-fi action films rather than star trek films!
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Lucy Lawless: Uh, yeah, well, whenever you notice something like that… a wizard did it.
Or given the Marvel universe, it’s the TVA what done it, or that’s the time-line for Dimension C-137…etc. we’re living through the non-canon series producers reboot renaissance. whhhy The Joker doesn’t even have to be super-villain, it’s all fungible (“as in NFTs?”). Just a matter of time before Spock without a goatee is entirely illogical until the ratings say otherwise.
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Everyone has a vision. Are the stories good and do they reflect the spirit of Trek?
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Should have Barclay as Dale. His hypochondria wouldn’t exactly be a match for Dale’s belief in conspiracy theories but it’s somewhat close.
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I do think that Dwight Schultz believes in conspiracy theories; so that would be typecasting.
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Some folks even have super-vision.
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Its definitely its own timeline, its meant to re-examine/reboot canon. I love it in comparison to the Kelvin line, which was half-baked at best.
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I disliked the Star Wars uniforms. And turning phasers into blasters. But I would watch a new one; if it ever happened.
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With full respect to Nimoy, I don’t think that’s entirely true. When you have a seemingly unsolveable problem, you can have a deus ex machina made up on the spot, or you can have a solution the audience can see is actually a brilliant application of facts they already knew. The second is much more satisfying but it depends on consistency to make happen.
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Discovery had a rough start in its first 2 seasons as a proto-prequel. Once they jumped to a new timeline the show opened up to something far more interesting. Prequels are an abomination, even the 1900’s scenes in Godfather II.
SNW seems to do away with canon and attempt to write their own. Kind of like how different Ghost in the Shell anime series use the same base characters and play around with the setting and plotlines with each iteration.
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Infinite diversity in infinite combination.
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After Midnight had a Lower Decks extravaganza this week, I’m going to try to post these in order, but the show’s youtube page is a real mess:
There are a couple more that I’ll post after I finish the episode.
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Sorry about all that! Blame Paramount for making the show basically unwatchable on youtube to, I assume, force people to sign up for Paramount+ through sheer unpleasantness. I’m pretty sure they are run by Cardassians. And as a subscriber I totally feel like a collaborator on Bajor.
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