Star Trek Just Erased An Entire Series From Canon

By Joshua Tyler
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Star Trek: Decrease Decks had its massive finale this week, and within the means of ending the present, they mounted one of many worst issues Star Trek has ever had. That drawback is called Star Trek: Discovery, and fortunately, it’s now not a part of the official, prime timeline Star Trek canon.

Decrease Decks has at all times taken full benefit of its animated format to repair a number of the franchise’s nagging questions and largest errors. They’ve smoothed numerous issues over, however the one factor that appeared unimaginable to clean over was the way in which Star Trek: Discovery trashed the whole Star Trek universe.

The Harm Discovery Did To Star Trek

For individuals who’ve forgotten, when Star Trek: Discovery first debuted, the present existed previously for the primary couple of seasons. It happened in a time between Archer’s Enterprise and Kirk’s Enterprise and started by beginning a battle with the Klingons. 

The issue is that they made the Klingons seem like this…

And in all the remainder of Star Trek, for the reason that days of the unique collection and restricted make-up, Klingons seem like this…

That was simply the beginning of the mess Discovery tried to make of the Trek universe. The present was made with the purpose of erasing all Trek that had gone earlier than, and it set out to try this fairly rapidly.

By season two, nevertheless, the individuals at Paramount realized this was a horrible concept and never what anybody wished. So, they got here up with an excuse to ship the present to date into the longer term that it couldn’t do any extra injury.

By then, they’d already finished loads. Fortunately, now it doesn’t matter as a result of the Star Trek: Decrease Decks finale confirmed that the occasions of Discovery happen in an alternate actuality.

How Star Trek: Decrease Decks Eliminated Discovery From Canon

Paramount has been clear for the reason that present began that, although it’s animated, Star Trek: Decrease Decks is full canon and takes place within the prime timeline of the Star Trek universe. So, what occurs in Decrease Decks isn’t fan fiction or an alternate universe.

Within the present’s finale, a gaggle of Klingon ships encounters a phenomenon that transforms issues into alternate-reality variations of themselves. When a Klingon ship hits a kind of transformation rays, it transforms into a giant, ugly Discovery-type Klingon ship.

Then one of many crewmembers transforms right into a Discovery-style Klingon.

This couldn’t have occurred if these bizarre Discovery Klingons had ever existed within the prime Star Trek timeline. It implies that Discovery and its Klingons, identical to the J.J. Abrams Star Trek films, occurred in an alternate universe. One which has nothing to do with the remainder of Star Trek.

Unusual New Worlds Is Nonetheless Prime Timeline

You could be questioning if this implies Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds additionally exists in that very same universe for the reason that collection was a by-product of Discovery. Fortunately, the reply is completely not.

The one Klingons we ever see in Unusual New Worlds look precisely just like the Klingons we’re used to seeing since Worf stepped onto the bridge of The Subsequent Era. There’s by no means been any stable rationalization for why they give the impression of being so totally different from the Discovery Klingons, however now we’ve one.

The Enterprise we noticed on Star Trek: Discovery isn’t the identical one we comply with on Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds. That earlier Enterprise (which, by the way in which, seems to be barely totally different from the one on Unusual New Worlds) is off having continued adventures in the identical alternate actuality Star Trek: Discovery happened in.

Goodbye To Decrease Decks And Thanks

Nobody wished Star Trek: Decrease Decks to finish. It’s the best thing Trek has done since Archer’s Enterprise. Now it has solidified that standing by giving us a present. On its means out the door, Decrease Decks mounted the whole Star Trek universe.

Take a second to thank Star Trek: Decrease Decks showrunner Mike McMahan. If we’re fortunate, perhaps sometime Paramount will clever up and produce Decrease Decks again for an additional franchise-fixing journey.