Star Trek has just been erased from the canon for the entire series
Pa Joshua Tyler
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Star Trek: The Lower Decks this week was the big finale, and in the process of wrapping up the show, they fixed one of the worst problems Star Trek has ever had. This problem is called Star Trek: Discoveryand thankfully it’s no longer part of the official Star Trek canon, which is the main one.
Lower decks has always taken full advantage of its animated format to fix some of the franchise’s nagging issues and biggest mistakes. They ironed out a lot of things, but one thing that seemed impossible was the path Star Trek: Discovery destroyed the entire Star Trek universe.
The Damage Discovery Did To Star Trek
For those who forgot when Star Trek: Opening first debuted, the show existed in the past for the first few seasons. It took place between Archer’s ventures and Kirk’s venture and started with the beginning of the Klingon War.
The problem is that they made the Klingons so…
And in all the rest of Star Trek, since the original series and the limited makeup, the Klingons look like this…
This was only the beginning of trouble Opening tried to make out of the Trek universe. The show was made with the goal of erasing all of Trek that came before, and it did so pretty quickly.
However, by the second season, people in First priority realized it was a terrible idea and not something anyone wanted. So they came up with an excuse to send the show so far into the future that it couldn’t do any more damage.
By then they had already done a lot. Fortunately, it doesn’t matter now because Star Trek: The Lower Decks the final confirmed that the events of Opening takes place in an alternate reality.
How Star Trek: Lower Decks Removed Discovery from the Canon
Paramount was clear from the show’s inception that, although it was animated, Star Trek: The Lower Decks is full canon and takes place in the main timeline of the Star Trek universe. So what happens in the Lower decks this is not fan fiction or an alternate universe.
In the show’s finale, a group of Klingon ships encounter a phenomenon that turns things into alternate-reality versions of themselves. When a Klingon ship is caught in one of these transformation beams, it transforms into a large, ugly opening-style A Klingon ship.
One of the crew then turns into a OpeningKlingon in style.
It couldn’t happen if it was weird Opening Klingons have ever existed in the main Star Trek timeline. This means that Opening and his Klingons, like JJ Abrams’ Star Trek films, took place in an alternate universe. One that has nothing to do with the rest of Star Trek.
Brave New Worlds is still a premier timeline
You may wonder if this means Star Trek: Brave New Worlds also exists in the same universe as the series was a spinoff Opening. Fortunately, the answer is absolutely no.
The only Klingons we’ve ever seen Brave new worlds look exactly like the Klingons we’re used to seeing since then Worf stepped on the bridge c The next generation. There has never been a clear explanation as to why they are so different from Opening Klingons, but now we have one.
The enterprise we have seen Star Trek: Discovery it’s not the same thing we’re after Star Trek: Brave New Worlds. That previous Enterprise (which, by the way, looks a little different than the one on Brave new worlds) does not have extended adventures in the same alternate reality Star Trek: Discovery took place in
Goodbye lower decks and thank you
No one wanted to Star Trek: The Lower Decks to the end. This the best Trek has done starting with Archer’s enterprise. Now he has cemented that status by giving us a gift. Walking out the door Lower decks fixed the entire Star Trek universe.
Take a moment to say thank you Star Trek: The Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahon. With any luck, maybe someday Paramount will come to their senses and bring it Lower decks back for another franchise-fixing adventure.
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