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Yes.
And no.
You don’t need every tiny detail to be right. But if you’re just doing whatever the hell you want, changing literally everything, and most importantly, changing a thoughtful and positive show with great characters and stories into a simple CGI driven pre pew show with a bunch of anti social ashhats as your main cast… Then don’t call it star trek. Then make your own show, call it what you want.
Don’t take existing characters and strip them of everything that made them great and then whine about toxic fandom if fans call you out.
I’m not on Reddit, I don’t know how the fandom is, but on Reddit I’d say “now queue the down votes and bans” because new trek fans there apparently don’t like people who remember what star trek was.
I’m not on Reddit, I don’t know how the fandom is, but on Reddit I’d say “now queue the down votes and bans” because new trek fans there apparently don’t like people who remember what star trek was.
Yes, thanks for the illustration
I thought it was appropriate to the tag at the end of your little gatekeeping rant.
As someone who’s been watching Trek since before TNG, I’ve seen arguments like yours applied to nearly every new iteration of the franchise from TNG to the modern day.
Not the guy you’re responding to, but Discovery and Picard are awful entirely on their own merits; so bad, in fact, that it took me four years to recover enough to try Strange New Worlds, which was great by the way. Lower Decks and Prodigy aren’t really for me, but I’ve caught enough of them to know they’re quality entertainment, too.
As time has gone on I’ve come to the conclusion Discovery started as the pilot of another show they stretched a Star Trek skin onto
it took me four years to recover enough
It took you, in your own words, four years to recover?
Well adjusted nerds when there’s a tv show they don’t like:
Personally I also really disliked PIC, but I simply choose to be normal and move on with my life.
When you get older 4 years is nothing. There’s a lot of other things to do. Disco started 8 years ago!
Personally, I find as I get older my concerns aren’t quite so petty.
Anyone upset about a television show they didn’t like for four days should seriously assess what is actually going on in their lives.
All fandoms on the Internet need to live by this. Stop being so mad about shit.
I like Stan Lee’s line. A fanboy asked him who would win a fight between two particular characters.
“Whoever the writer decides would win.”
I love subverting expectations, so if I was writing a battle between two big, popular characters I’d have a 3rd character that I like come in and steal the victory.
What, like Mr. Rogers?
in a blood stained sweater of course
A blood, sweat and oil stained wifebeater
I dislike cannon contradictions because they are basically headcannon rewrites by the writers ignoring cannon
I understand that mistakes do sometimes happen in writing where they miss a cannon detail but those are mistakes and mistakes aren’t intentional
If someone wants to write a new star trek story there is plenty of rich cannon already there to craft into a story or a new story could be made following trek universe rules to add to the cannon
