>> And canon is preserved. This is Lt. SAM Kirk. <<
Star Trek LIED About Kirk | They Do It ALL THE TIME!
Ahem. You were ALSO saying?
Well, well, well, Alex Kurtzman lied AGAIN with "James T. Kirk WON'T show up in season 1 of SNW" stuff.
You are correct that the character's older brother, SAM Kirk (played by Dan Jeannotte), showed up in the pilot. Not a problem, right? And hey, they even remembered he's got a 'stashe! Kurtzman's learned from his mistakes, right? NOPE! James T. Kirk shows up in the flesh during the season 1 finale (played by Paul Wesley as some skinny soy boy), even though TOS explicitly stated that Kirk had NEVER been on the Enterprise in the Pike era and did NOT meet Pike himself until Kirk was promoted to Captain and assumed command of the Enterprise. So canon goes out the window AGAIN!
>> this is only the pilot episode of Strange New Worlds. They still have plenty of time to woke-it-up and destroy it. <<
Well, Laz, that is ONE prediction you CORRECTLY nailed in this thread. Of course, after seeing the damage from Star Trek Into Darkness, Star Trek Discovery, AND Star Trek Picard, I figured it wasn't a matter of "if" Kurtzman would destroy SNW, but when.
And I will note that all the posters on this thread earlier who claimed the show "felt like TOS" and "isn't woke" and was "faithful to canon", AREN'T back for the END of the season to STILL defend the show.
Hmmmm!
It’s an alternate timeline. One that was nullified by Pike’s actions at the end of the episode. Just a big “what if?”
Star Trek has done this a lot. And it doesn’t destroy continuity.
P.S.- It’s a frigging TV show. Not the New Testament.
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I for one am greatly disappointed: weak writing, weird hair, confusing characters - the list goes on. And like all the shows now, limited to only 10 episodes; hardly time to develop anything except sell soap.