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Rumors of Discovery being decanonized
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... or at least relegated to an alternate timeline. This has been going around YouTube lately. What do you think?
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GLv9d1cZJPE
https://youtube.com/watch?v=GLv9d1cZJPE
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It's not. LD absolutely did not decanonise DSC. It's just wishful thinking from DSC haters and they should hang their heads in shame for gatekeeping, gaslighting or whatever term is used these days.
Anyone that actually watched the final episode will not have heard anything about the timeline being permanently changed/erased or anything or anything of the like. The ONLY thing it showed was multiple possible realities similar to TNG 'Parallels' i.e. it altered those in the immediate vicinity of the anomaly according the dimension that was being imposed. Just because a DSC Klingon appeared and disappeared, it did not cancel DSC as part of the prime timeline. All that showed was a reality where DSC type Klingons were a probable majority of Klingon genealogy, and there were other Klingon variants in that same scene.
Until CBS actually comes out and says 'DSC is no longer canon' etc, then it remains as is, otherwise, what is the point of the upcoming ST Academy series, set in the same DSC 31st Century with the same DSC characters that went there??? This in itself blows the claim out of the water, out of orbit and into whatever Blackhole that is nearest.
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A good example of it is that, without any refits at all, the Enterprise's bridge (and other internal areas) went from the configuration it had in DSC to the more TOS-like one it has in SNW and none of the characters noticed any difference. There is also the rather large disconnect between s2 and s3 of PIC and a few other (though much lesser) continuity gaffs where the various 'Prime' NuTrek series contradict themselves on various points.
All in all, they have well established that canon is rather fluid in what CBS calls the "Prime Timeline", which is more than just a bit annoying to a lot of people (myself included) but is something of a staple of time travel stories, so there really isn't a reason to decanonize DSC when it is easily explained as an anomaly in the mid to late 2250s and the characters could remember it somewhat different from the way it appeared in the DSC show.
I was extremely annoyed by DSC at first because I thought of Trek as regular space sci-fi series with a little bit of time travel thrown in which made all the continuity problems between it and traditional Trek ruin the flow of the overall story, but looking at it from the point of view of it being much closer to a time travel story makes it more palatable (though still not ideal).
I mostly attribute that to the repairs that were done after Discovery s2 finale. Enterprise took a helluva beating, and even lost a good chunk of her saucer. I wouldn't be surprised if Starfleet decided to do a minor refit while doing repairs.
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Midnight's Edge posts so much BS lies that if he said in a video that today is the 27th of December 2024 I'd ask for a second opinion (oh and just for future reference it was 27th of December 2024 when I posted this).
People really need to check their sources much better instead of just jumping for the first one that matches their biases.
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Quite to the contrary of Edge's proclamation, this in fact cemented the place of DSC in the Prime timeline.
And dencel, either you're a system (thus the "we"), or you have quite the odd idea of what STO players are doing with their time...
And I don't see anyone raging over the look of the Andorians changing at any point either. Just the Klingons. Also I would like to point out that DSC style Klingons actually do look better WITH hair. Season 2 did make them look a bit more like TNG style that way.
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So, not a timeline change but actively taking out a holo-refit that went wrong and reverting to old reliable TOS controls.
The Terran Empire is working on it! It takes time to bomb planets from orbit!
As for the difficulty, there is some quirk of the way the IP is registered (there was a wild theory that Lucille Ball did that with some series to guard against IP poachers, but it was probably not the case, especially since no one expected the show to become the incredible phenomena it did) that makes it difficult to separate it from what was Desilu studios back when Star Trek was originally made, so the IP has always resided with it and the name of the studio simply changed as it was passed around (mostly as the original Paramount TV division then a subpart of that division when it was greatly expanded, with a short stint as one of the many CBS studios, and possibly a few other names).