Okay. Being serious now: people speculate. I honestly don't think people believe it can't be Prime Timeline. In any case, people will believe what they want, facts and Word of God or no. Does it really matter, in the end?
Discovery Theory
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Unless, of course, one believes as I do that the Kelvin Timeline actually branched off at the events of "Star Trek: First Contact", ran through "Star Trek: Enterprise", and then on to the nuTrek movies... :P
This is similar to my pet theory. Therefore it must be the right one. Everyone, this discussion is officially over. BAM!
Yknow, if anything the current new aesthetic is more like the USS Franklin, not the Kelvin and such, puts it very firmly in the Prime universe.
Remember the simpler times when we just wondered if they would show bathrooms on Discovery?
They didn't show bathrooms in the Kelvin universe either. There's your proof.
Humans have evolved past the need for bathrooms by the 23rd century and the anus is a distant memory.
Starfleet officers are trained not to urinate for one year?
I'm treating it as a reboot, because I can't make the visual round peg that is Discovery fit into the square peg that is TOS.
Betting that CBS doesn't care as long as they get my money.
No, they developed alternate methods that present humans cannot comprehend.So I guess there are no gay men in the Star Trek future.
And, needless to say, those methods are fabulous.
Wait. I thought that was what the transporter was for?
Excrement is the bitter part of valor.
The whole point of why DSC does not take place in the Kelvin universe is so that there wouldn't be any story conflict between the TV show and the films. So there isn't going to be any references to the Kelvin universe in DSC.
1. CBS owns all rights to the Trek universe, including the stories they "let" Paramount depict in the movies, and the stories told in novels and comics. There's no "legal" reason CBS can't set their first "Star Trek" series in any universe they want, since they own the story rights to ALL the previous Trek episodes and movies. (Paramount needs permission from CBS to use Trek characters and storylines in its movies, not the other way around.)
2. Given the pervasive time travel shenanigans depicted as part of the Temporal Cold War on "Enterprise" 100 years earlier, I have no problem buying that an alternate "Prime" timeline was created 100 years later, with technology, uniforms, and ship designs that are different from the "original" timeline.
As one example, in "Yesterday's Enterprise," Lt. Yar went back in time just 20 years, creating the new TNG timeline where uniforms were different and the Enterprise-D bridge had a different design and lighting scheme than her original timeline. Just imagine if time travelers went back in time seven or eight centuries and changed history, like the Suliban Cabal and Xindi were doing in "Enterprise." That could easily explain differences in uniforms between the "Discovery" timeline and the same time period with Captain Pike and Spock depicted in "The Menagerie" -- if we assume the time travelers involved in the Temporal Cold War were from the future of the TOS timeline, and were actively changing their own past (i.e., the history shown in TOS), as depicted in multiple episodes of "Enterprise," then it's possible the U.S.S. Kelvin and U.S.S. Discovery both originated in this post-Temporal Cold War "Prime" timeline, not the "original" TOS timeline.
2. Given the pervasive time travel shenanigans depicted as part of the Temporal Cold War on "Enterprise" 100 years earlier, I have no problem buying that an alternate "Prime" timeline was created 100 years later, with technology, uniforms, and ship designs that are different from the "original" timeline.
As one example, in "Yesterday's Enterprise," Lt. Yar went back in time just 20 years, creating the new TNG timeline where uniforms were different and the Enterprise-D bridge had a different design and lighting scheme than her original timeline. Just imagine if time travelers went back in time seven or eight centuries and changed history, like the Suliban Cabal and Xindi were doing in "Enterprise." That could easily explain differences in uniforms between the "Discovery" timeline and the same time period with Captain Pike and Spock depicted in "The Menagerie" -- if we assume the time travelers involved in the Temporal Cold War were from the future of the TOS timeline, and were actively changing their own past (i.e., the history shown in TOS), as depicted in multiple episodes of "Enterprise," then it's possible the U.S.S. Kelvin and U.S.S. Discovery both originated in this post-Temporal Cold War "Prime" timeline, not the "original" TOS timeline.
I'm part of the school of thinking that the events of the temporal cold war were already part of TOS history, but this is a pretty elegant way to reason they production differences. I'm just not ready to accept that the former future is no more.
Oh man I'm having 09 flashbacks.
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