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Old 01-19-2018, 12:35 AM   #393
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Originally Posted by Frazod View Post
I hate to say it, but goddamn, I love this show. Yeah, I feel dirty saying that, but it's true. I've gotten over the goofy Klingons and the shitting all over the canon bit. It's dark and twisted and bleak and nasty and I'm digging it.

They basically did the same thing to Star Trek that the reboot of Battlestar Galactica did - took an old show, blasted it down to outline form, and filled in the details using new and shiny stuff. I know that the stuff they're doing will never fit in with established canon, and I'm sure they do to. Yes, the ships and everything in them should look like the Enterprise from the original pilot with Jeffrey Hunter. But that look is 50 years old, and would bore the crap out of modern audiences. It's either this way or no way, and I'm on board with it.

I think their biggest mistake was not simply calling it a reboot, when it clearly is.
I was gonna wait to post my thoughts once the next episode aired, but I guess the tl;dr version is:

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What I said in the tag would be a decent in-narrative explanation for the differences between the Klingons of ENT/TOS to VOY and DISC as well as the aesthetic differences among the TV shows.
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