Phoenix666 and looorg have both written in with stories about 'Star Trek: Discovery':
The Fine Article contains spoilers for those who haven't seen the show:
The lightness and easygoing chemistry among the "Discovery" cast present a stark contrast with the characters of "Discovery." In the first few episodes, the show has turned Burnham into a shunned mutineer, introduced a suspicious skipper in Capt. Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) and given us an arrogant and snappy scientist in Lt. Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp).
star-trek-discovery-starfleetIt's the darkness of the characters and the background, which is set amid a war with the Klingons, as well as potentially continuity-bending aspects like Burnham being the adoptive daughter of Sarek, Spock's dad, that have some longtime Trekkies nervous.
If you're among those worried about the changes brought on by "Discovery," the producers have some advice for you: Just wait a little bit.
"We are canon," executive producer Alex Kurtzman said in an interview Saturday. "You'll have to be patient with us."
Kurtzman addressed the notion that the show would be grittier, assuring fans that the core themes of Star Trek remain.
Is it Game of Thrones in Space?
So this is a sure sign of the apocalypse. Windows will still be around in 2256 according to Star Trek. Guess we have to wait for that year of the Linux desktop for a few hundred more years.
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/2017/10/3/16412372/star-trek-discovery-cbs-windows-code-command-line
(Score: 2) by isostatic on Friday October 13 2017, @06:57PM
No, they haven't been around on the galaxy-stage for 100 years, but there have been a few raiding parties - a bit like vikings used to do to Britain. Could even fit in with Picard's statements in "First Contact", which discovery re-first contact (in the same way that we consider Columbus being first contact between Europe and America, despite Leif Erikson
The point with the Enterprise look of Klingons changing to TOS look is there was no explanation to start with, but one was provided that fitted what we saw (and really it's only Bashir's "Those are Klingons?" line that had to be explained as visual differences aren't really continuity)