That was SO much fun. I literally just said in the Picard thread that S2 of that didn’t feel very Trekky to me but SNW, holy hell, it’s like Trek reborn. I got this warm fuzzy feeling in my chest when watching it and it’s so great to have Trek back again. Don’t get me wrongo, I love me some DISCO but it’s its own thing with its own storytelling agendas, chiefly the serialised aspect, and it’s great to get away from that but with all the same lavish production values etc.
As for the incongruent look of the ship and all the fancy tech, I’ve said it before that the basic technological vernacular is so similar to TOS that the old and new flow surprisingly well for me. It’s just that one is hampered by the effects of the time in depicting such things so I kinda imagine that TOS has all the trimmings, we just can’t see them. (The various emulations of the exact look of the TOS period within future Trek shows undoes that bit of head-canonry, natch, but then the nostalgia factor overcomes it and I stop worrying about it all e.g. the fabulously enjoyable mirror universe two-parter in Enterprise.)
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