Star Trek Discovery is officially an alternate timeline, question mark?

[Ratman_tf]

https://www.giantfreakinrobot.com/ent/star-trek-erased.html

Now, the next team can just retcon the retcon, or say that silly cartoon show isn't canon.

But I am generally fine with this development. Hopefully this is a sign that the show is starting to escape the black hole of suck that has weighed down the franchise since 2009.

[BoxCrayonTales]

Fuck Paramount. I hope they go bankrupt. Star Trek deserves to be laid to rest. Make new IPs instead. Or better yet, go bankrupt.

I'm never giving Star Trek, or Star Wars, or any other franchises benefit of the doubt ever again. Corpos can all eat shit and die in fire.

I'll start caring when these properties enter public domain. In 95 years. When everyone who enjoyed them is long dead.

Fuck Mickey Mouse for extending copyright terms to outlast human lifetimes. Fuck the government for going along with it.

They made their bed. Now they can choke to death on their own vomit in it.

Good fucking riddance.

[Omega]

This is why marketing is pushing "multiverses!!!" now.

They can fuck with anything and then just go "tee-hee! its teh multivwese!"

Marvel is really pushing this hard lately. But Star Trek was doing it before them, just not on so large a scale till relatively recently.

[hedgehobbit]

Saying that they "officially" removed STD from canon is a bit of a stretch. According to the article, they just showed both types of Klingons together and only in their silly cartoon show. I agree with Omega that this is just them f-ing around with a Star Trek multiverse trying to link all the various shows together in one massive plate of continuity spaghetti.

[BoxCrayonTales]

This is why marketing is pushing "multiverses!!!" now.

They can fuck with anything and then just go "tee-hee! its teh multivwese!"

Marvel is really pushing this hard lately. But Star Trek was doing it before them, just not on so large a scale till relatively recently.

As an indie aspiring writer, I like the idea of multiverses because I don't want to write everything in the same continuity forever. Often I want to write new stuff and I can't feasibly do it in one continuity. I find singular continuities very constraining when they're used in, say, ttrpgs. I'm sick of death of all the established continuities from the 80s thru early 90s because they thoroughly squeezed all the blood from that stone. A multiverse approach is great for ttrpgs because continuity was never the point, the point was entertainment. I don't need a ttrpg setting to have continuity. It could keep writing in inconsistent events for the sake of cool scenarios and I wouldn't mind. Maybe King Arthur ruled in the 400s or the 500s, maybe Atlantis fell in 10,000 BC or 100,000 BC, maybe the Old Ones created humanity, maybe an alien vampire invasion caused the Toba catastrophe, maybe the Aztec gods are coming back for revenge after Cortez and the Tlaxcalans killed their worshipers, maybe the Dinosaurs built an advanced civilization, etc. Write scenarios as detailed and elaborate as you want and don't worry about fitting it into a single continuity. Have fun with it.

Hollywood is using multiverses to fix fuckups or for memberberries. Talk about missing the point.

[Thornhammer]

I can't give too much weight to a blink-and-you-missed-it cameo.

Can't say I'm a fan of Discovery though.

[Banjo Destructo]

Never was cannon, Spock never had a sister.