EVERYONE, exasperated: ok but remember when Spock just vanished out of the timeline in order to set up a new franchise? MICHAEL: what do you think I'm doing here EVERYONE: *deep sigh*
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Michael Burnham's middle name is "Mary Sue"
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"Mary Sue" is an ancient Vulcan term for overpowered self-inserts in fanfiction, Captain
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Replying to @BootlegGirl
another problem with Burnham is that she is so famous that when Kirk first met Spock, Kirk would remember he was Burnham's sister, and that she was adopted, and Spock's parentage (everyone would know) remember, Burnham not only mutinied, she also started the Klingon War
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Prequels always have this problem that the natural desire to make your story matter so people care is inherently at war with the desire to avoid plot holes and respect the canon
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as I pointed out in a different tweet up the thread, that is something that Star Trek screwed up in both prequel series
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At least for ENT it would have been something pretty easy to fix given one of the central premises was the temporal cold war.
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The Temporal Cold War is one of those really easy outs for any of these rl history quibbles I mean Voyager had a fairly confusing episode about how the rl computing revolution in Silicon Valley in the 80s and 90s was somehow caused by a Federation ship crashing in the past
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I actually like to use the ENT finale as an out under this theory all four seasons are a holonovel by someone who took liberties with history
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There was a fan project to do artwork of what the "real" Star Trek universe looks like, based on the premise that what we see on TV is some kind of recreation using only human actors with a limited budget Mainly focused on reimagining the rubber forehead species to be cooler
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Turning Klingons into these gigantic armored rhinos, Cardassians into actual snakes
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so it was hentai, then?
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So, Mass Effect
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