Virtually every show in existence has dud episodes. Even the greatest shows ever made. They happen. What’s your point?
I get that you liked it. That’s fair. You can like things and disagree with me. Thats totally cool (not that you need my permission or anything.)
As for “the canon”, you know that every show and movie made before DIS is canon, right? Not just TOS, but the motion picture, tng, ent, ds9, voyager. And now DIS is also sadly part of that canon (though I suspect they’re going to just memory hole it… Klingons are back to normal in SNW, for example.)
That’s how that works. When you come into a franchise that’s as heavily established as Trek, with as dedicated a fan base, you have to at least respect existing canon, and make sure any retcons to it make sense or expand on something without totally trashing things.
Costume designers, for example, come in a decide that, no, Klingons, really need to be *completely reworked into an unrecognizable species that stands a few feet taller, has giant, bald-lizard heads and we’re gaudy, pokey armor…. Is just gonna piss off a lot of existing fans. (Only fan base more, uh, passionate is Star Wars. They’re savages.)
What substance is there on “Spock’s Brain”, “Turnabout Intruder” or “The Way to Eden”?
And what established canon? TOS is all over the place too, from the laws and organisation of the federation to the nature of Vulcans.
/sigh.
Virtually every show in existence has dud episodes. Even the greatest shows ever made. They happen. What’s your point?
I get that you liked it. That’s fair. You can like things and disagree with me. Thats totally cool (not that you need my permission or anything.)
As for “the canon”, you know that every show and movie made before DIS is canon, right? Not just TOS, but the motion picture, tng, ent, ds9, voyager. And now DIS is also sadly part of that canon (though I suspect they’re going to just memory hole it… Klingons are back to normal in SNW, for example.)
That’s how that works. When you come into a franchise that’s as heavily established as Trek, with as dedicated a fan base, you have to at least respect existing canon, and make sure any retcons to it make sense or expand on something without totally trashing things.
Costume designers, for example, come in a decide that, no, Klingons, really need to be *completely reworked into an unrecognizable species that stands a few feet taller, has giant, bald-lizard heads and we’re gaudy, pokey armor…. Is just gonna piss off a lot of existing fans. (Only fan base more, uh, passionate is Star Wars. They’re savages.)