Look I don’t see an updated aesthetic as a retcon in and of itself.... retcons occur when you go to the origin of things (see D.C Comics constantly blowing up Krypton.... a different Kypton every time). TMP isn’t a retcon to me.... in universe explanations for most of it can be chalked up to the ten years between…

Actually if you visit a electronics store, you will find turntables that look like the 1960s and Art Deco radios from the 1930s that are all sophisticated 21st century devices for streaming and MP3 burning. In other words as technology becomes more sophisticated and embedded, it doesn’t matter what the outside of the…

I’m surprised you didn’t say 1,000 to 10,000 years difference, it would have made as much sense. Of course watching the series in the 60s and watching TMP in 79 I would say it represented those same ten years in effects technology and prosthetics.... but it wasn’t a prequel, so it didn’t overwrite the visual look of…

Okay now.... Star Trek is a future that will never happen. Your last statement is kinda sad. As for the first part, I love positive change.... Change that takes the narrative forward and not back. Star Trek was an open narrative that could go indefinitely. Now it’s following the depressive trajectory found in…

Except Gene really wasn’t running the show at that point. Considering he wasn’t a fan of any of the Harve Bennett era Trek (Incl. Wrath of Khan) his views could be a bit irrelevant to the overall franchise. The TMP era was embraced by TNG.... which took place further in the future of course...

Well so is Discovery for all intents and purposes.

No. Just stop.

Doubtful Trials and Tribbulations will be written out if canon.... only sucky episodes like Threshold.

Look at it this way.... Discovery is going to continue to move further away from Trek aesthetics until it basically becomes another timeline in the Trek multiverse.

Do you know what a retcon is? In universe differences between TOS/TMP are explained by the years between both series. It’s later. The Enterprise has been refitted. Characters have moved on/changed because of the passage of time away from each other. Spock was seeking to purge himself of emotions. Kirk had been…

So... A reboot masquerading as a prequel after all.... color me shocked.....

“Close” in this context means, couldn’t be bothered to get it right.

The hell you’re talking about? How is TMP a retcon since it takes place further in the future in the established timeline? Any change in visual aesthetics could justified as having taken place “later” in Trek’s own history.

So the Guy who was bitten gains the powers of a Groundhog? ..... Groundhog Man, Groundhog Man, does whatever a Groundhog can....

The short version.... “I want a critic who agrees with what I like” .... i09 can’t help you either....

I think the apt comparison will be made with The New 52 over at D.C. Comics, an attempt to overhaul and modernize the line.... an initially popular, but ultimately failed exercise in overdesign, tone shifting and continuity shredding... that still depended on in story knowledge in order to work with the reader. Mostly…

If there could only be more stars for you sir.

It’s almost ten. DaBoom still hasn’t responded to AC’s post. Facts Amirite?

Alleged victim is being considered “unreliable narrator”, that there seems to be no other accusers coming forward (usually there are) keep this tale from getting traction. That this keeps popping up on AV tends to come from people who straight up don’t like the guy.

Only if there is rapeyness or non-consensual.... being a Womanizer (relentlessly pursuing and bedding women) isn’t a crime. Nor is being a lush. Yeah it’s a bad combo, but it doesn’t put him on the Cosby/Weinstein scale of shittiness. (To tell you the truth I thought he was gay).