Romulan Star Empire?
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This is actually my headcanon, and my explanation for all visual retcons and insconsistencies; God, I hope they go in this direction!!! Not holding my breath, but damn, would I bug out (in happiness) if they did this!! It has always made sense to me; ENT is *after* FC and the old 24th century, and then the next show is the nu23rd, its like you can honestly watch the show's in production order, and still get a full narrative, if you assume FC rewrote the timeline, and the narrative goes back from FC -> nu22nd (ENT) -> nu23rd (DSC/SNW). There is no longer anything to complain about OR any inconsistencies, and I couldn't be happier if it was cemented as canon.
Then let's bring in the Borg. Have them fully identify themselves and then attack Earth.
My point is that continuity isn't all that terribly important. New stories replace old stories. If continuity becomes a limitation, then alter it and move on. It's what Trek has been doing since 1966...
Yes please. It will continue and cement the timeline rewrite that began when the Borg drone was left in the past. IMO, the drone's technology, combined with things left behind by Daniels, led to Section 31 advancing the technology of the entire Federation.
It would cause Voyager to be inconsistent.
In fairness Voyager often caused Voyager to be inconsistent
Ehh. The timeline rewrite is what popped Seven of Nine into existence in time for them to meet her. FIrst half of Voyager was pre-FC, second half of Voyager was post-FC.
I just don't see why the events of Star Trek: First Contact would be any more likely to cause a "permanent re-writing" of the timeline than, say, the events of "The City on the Edge of Forever" or Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home or "Time's Arrow, Parts I & II," or "Past Tense, Parts I & II."
And what about Relativity where Ducane actually says that if the Borg and the Enterprise E never went back to Cochrane's flight, the Federation would never exist?
And the signal sent by the Borg in ENT: Regeneration is why the Borg are in the Alpha Quadrant in TNG Season 1.
And what about Prodigy, that showed both the USS Discovery, and TOS tyle USS Enterprise in the same shot?
Or Picard which has had both the new Connie design and the TOS Connie.
Lower Decks has also referenced Enterprise along with using TOS/TAS designs when talking about TOS.
This alternate timeline theory never holds up under scrutinization.
And what about Prodigy, that showed both the USS Discovery, and TOS tyle USS Enterprise in the same shot?
Or Picard which has had both the new Connie design and the TOS Connie.
Lower Decks has also referenced Enterprise along with using TOS/TAS designs when talking about TOS.
This alternate timeline theory never holds up under scrutinization.
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I've said it before and I'll say it again: The easiest way to reconcile the Enterprise's differences in appearance between DIS/SNW and TOS is to assume that in a post-scarcity society, they're more willing to make major changes to starships during routine refits just because the costs are less important.
Or MAYBE... it's just a TV show. They recast the Enterprise just like they did Spock.
Yup. Just a recasting and retelling of in universe stories.
That’s because it’s really fun.
These are the same guys who created the problems that they were tasked with fixing. I wouldn't give them too much credit.
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Strict literalism is hard to overcome.
Somehow, I had never made this connection before, but you're right: It really is the ST equivalent of people who think the Bible must be literal history or it is worthless.
These continuation debates always make me remember the confusion that I felt when I tried to compare TOS and TNG long time ago, when I was still young. And that experience taught me one thing. That I shouldn't care so much about the consistency in Star Trek.
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