re: Star Trek Strange new Worlds Season 2

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I’m okay with SNW just canning the original series canon and doing their own thing. I think they should use the original series as a guide, but not twist themselves into knots to have their timeline match exactly with TOS.

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The problem with that is the entire point of “Strange New Worlds” is to serve as the prequel/origin story of TOS. It’s not simply another show set in the Star Trek universe, but it’s specifically tied to the characters and events.

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And precisely for that reason they should just tell everyone they are breaking free from it and doing something different. Because there will always be inevitable canon conflicts. If they don’t just announce that’s what they are doing, I expect it to happen story-wise soon enough.

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They have obviously done that with the Kelvin timeline and that’s fine. They made
it readily abundant to fans in the opening scene of that movie. It’s the correct way to do it if that what they want to do.

However, in this iteration of Star Trek, they made the decision to state they are in the prime timeline. As such, they need to respect the canon as much as possible. Taking advantage of some gray areas surrounding trivial details is fine. Completely changing an established character is not.