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Originally Posted by ownedbycats
Yeah. For one, the Enterprise is bigger than it was in the original show (and even the TMP Enterprise). Even if you pretend everything else is just paint and exchanging the touchscreen panels for buttons and removing the second turbolift on the bridge... maybe the Enterprise got shrunk in the washing machine before Kirk took over.
Some characters inexplicably change race—Robert April, which I can forgive as he only appeared once in the animated series ( which had pink Klingon outfits), and transporter chief Kyle, which is just 'huh?' because he could've been a new character. Spock saying in TOS that he's "never used [a mind meld] on a human" is outright contradicted by him doing that in SNW.
The episode "Memento Mori" had a scene where it's questionable whether two characters would survive the episode.... one of those characters is Uhura. Who we know survives.
Kind of the problem with prequels... |
A major problem with Prequels is that there is a feeling of less surprise because we know many things already. As an example, in the
Star Wars Prequel movies we know many things that can't happen, such as Obi-Won Kenobi can't die.
One of the worst examples is with
The Adult Legion story in
Legion of Super-Heroes. The story is set about 20 years in the future and shows the futures of members of The Legion of Super-Heroes. We saw who would live, who would marry who, who would leave the team, and who would die (including one member who hadn't joined yet). For 16 years the Legion's Creative Teams were stuck with that story, and one member (Chemical King) was killed off specifically because that story showed he was fated to die (plus his powers were difficult to understand [he can control chemical reactions]).
Finally, in 1983 they did a story where they revealed that the future we saw in
The Adult Legion story was just one possible future. In the issue they showed other possible futures (including one where the Legion kept its rule against marriage which resulted in the death of the team when the more level-headed members had to leave the team).
This is where a Multiverse is handy: It can be used to deal with the inconsistencies that happen over time. In
Star Trek you have the Prime Universe and the Mirror Universe. Both exist without any significant issues.