“We had the advantage of a ten-year gap in Trek history to retro the ship a bit with elements that could be removed and replaced somewhere in the time frame of Discovery and the Original series.”

The long dead Iconians had technology of this type in TOS, TNG and I think a DS9 or two, if my memory is up to scratch. I never remember if they were the same race that seeded life in the Milky Way, linking humans, Vulcans, Romulans, Klingons and others as related species.

The first image is just a jumping-off point. It looks at the frame, tries to match it to images in the videos it was trained with (or some abstraction thereof), and then synthesizes a new frame using those training videos. So the new frame doesn’t perfectly match the old frame - it’s going to introduce elements from…

If you’re changing io9's cookie policy shouldn’t there be some sort of notification?

Aliensplaining? :)

The relationship between Bill and The Doctor does remind me very strongly of Ace’s relationship in many ways, and I wouldn’t necessarily be opposed if Bill inherited some of the supposed later storylines planned for Ace.

Poor Pete. Gone and forgotten. :(

Dr. Who: Punching privilege in the face for 2,000 years.   

I thought he was some weird Heat/Snow Miser combo.