Star Trek isn’t our future though. As much as some of us might hope and pray that it turns out that way, it’s not.

Trek is not Lord of the Rings. It’s malleable and can change with the times. Roddenberry himself made vast changes to the look and feel of franchise when it made the jump to feature films. It’s kind of hard to explain away why the universe in The Motion Picture looks so different than TOS, even though it’s only…

The communicator was the only part of the props/set that looked like it belonged in the timeframe they are ostensibly setting this in, aside from the phaser.

They already had some of these advances in Deep Space Nine (holographic communications and the like). What’s so hard about setting this show 15-20 years after the end of DS9/Voyager and showing a natural progression of technological development from what was already shown, rather than trying to retcon everything while…

It breaks the immersion and takes me out of the story, others as well. Past TV shows had the benefit of ahead of the one that came before it, so there’s the wink that this is the progression of technology, evolution, etc. But since this is set in Star Trek’s near past, we’re expecting it to look like the old TV shows…

This. So much this. If you don’t want to make it look like the timeframe it’s set in, then set it in a different timeframe! Don’t try to tell us that this is how the 1850s looked when that’s not how they looked.

Then they shouldn’t have set it in the time period where Klingons were either greasy assholes or bumpyforeheaded assholes.

Because this is a lot different than Hercules wearing blue sandals instead of red sandals.

In ten years?

Why should the technology be *behind what we have today* (if you think of the weird mainframe computers and data discs they had in the original series)? It makes sense to adjust your prediction of the future as time progresses.

The way it was explained to me is that Paramount has the rights to everything in the Kelvinverse (the last three movies), whereas CBS kept the rights to the TV shows (TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY, Ent).

I was praying that they’d go this route once the other houses show up.

Very few corporations nowadays are willing to play the long game. CEOs are beholden to shareholders, not the employees or the public, and shareholders only care about making the most money right this second. CEOs don’t care to fight it because they’re going to get a golden parachute whether or not the company tanks in…

“It’s a terrible day for rain.”

Except, as I’ve already stated, the way TOS looked is the way the future in Star Trek is supposed to look. Again it’s like making a period piece set in the 1800s but it looks like 2017 New York.

Strictly speaking, it’s the fifteenth New York, which makes it New New New New New New... New New New New New New... New New New York.

Plus if it’s not going to be Neo Tokyo, couldn’t we have at least made a New New York City joke?

which Deadline describes as taking place “in the rebuilt New Manhattan where a leader of a biker gang saves his friend from a medical experiment.”

...but I think it would look really dumb for a modern television show that happens to be set in the same time period as TOS Victorian Era to be wearing 60's miniskirts corsets & bustles and be using 60's idea of computers horse-drawn buggies and lanterns.

Funny thing was that you could do PS2/PS3->PC->Xbox360 cross-platform play for FFXI, way back in the day.