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Star Trek: Lower Decks This week’s big finale fixed one of Star Trek’s worst problems to date in the process of ending the show. The problem is named Star Trek: DiscoveryAnd thankfully, it’s no longer part of the official main timeline, Star Trek canon.
lower deck has always taken full advantage of the animated format to fix some of the series’ thorniest questions and biggest mistakes. They have solved many things smoothly, but the one thing that seemed impossible to solve smoothly is Star Trek: Discovery Destroyed the entire Star Trek universe.
Discovering the damage done to Star Trek
For those who have forgotten, always Star Trek: Discovery When it first debuted, the show existed for the first few seasons in the past. It takes place during the time between Archer’s Enterprises and Kirk’s Enterprises and begins with starting a war against the Klingons.
The problem is they made the Klingons look like this…
And in all the rest of Star Trek, from the original series and limited makeup days, the Klingons look like…
That was just the beginning of the chaos discovery I tried to create the world of Trek. This show was created with the intention of erasing everything Trek that had ever existed, and it ended up doing that pretty quickly.
But by season two, the people at Paramount realized this was a terrible idea and no one wanted it. So they came up with an excuse to send the show far into the future so it couldn’t do any more damage.
By that time, they had already accomplished a lot. Fortunately, now that’s not an issue. Star Trek: Lower Decks The finale confirmed the events of discovery It takes place in an alternate reality.
How Star Trek: Lower Decks removed Discovery from the canon
Although Paramount has been an anime since the program began, Star Trek: Lower Decks It is completely canon and takes place in the primary timeline of the Star Trek universe. So what happens lower deck It’s not fan fiction or an alternate universe.
In the show’s finale, a group of Klingon ships encounter a phenomenon that changes things into alternate versions of reality. When a Klingon ship is hit by a transformation beam, it transforms into a large, ugly figure. discovery-style Klingon ship.
Then one of the crew members transforms. discoveryKlingon style.
If they were weird, this wouldn’t have happened discovery The Klingons once existed in Star Trek’s heyday timeline. In other words, discovery And those Klingons took place in an alternate universe, just like in J. J. Abrams’ Star Trek movies. It has nothing to do with the rest of Star Trek.
Strange New Worlds remains the primary timeline
You may be wondering what this means Star Trek: Strange New Worlds The series was a spin-off of, so it also exists in the same universe. discovery. Fortunately, the answer is definitely not.
The only Klingon we’ve ever seen strange new world They look exactly like the Klingons we’ve been used to seeing since Worf stepped onto the bridge. next generation. There is no clear explanation as to why they look so different from others. discovery Klingons, but now we have Klingons.
enterprise we saw Star Trek: Discovery Not the same as what we follow Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. Previous Enterprise (by the way, it looks a little different from the one above) strange new world) It’s a break to continue the adventure in the same alternate reality Star Trek: Discovery It was held at
Goodbye to the lower deck and thank you
no one wanted Star Trek: Lower Decks At the end. This is the best thing Trek has done since Archer’s Enterprise. Now it has cemented its position by giving us gifts. On my way out the door, lower deck Fixed the entire Star Trek universe.
Let’s express our gratitude Star Trek: Lower Decks Showrunner Mike McMahan. If I’m lucky, someday Paramount will gather their wits and lower deck Back to another adventure in establishing a franchise.
