By Joshua Tyler
| Up to date 5 hours in the past
Star Trek: Decrease Decks had its huge finale this week, and within the technique of ending the present, they fastened one of many worst issues Star Trek has ever had. That downside is known as Star Trek: Discovery, and fortunately, it’s 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 lots of issues over, however the one factor that appeared unattainable to clean over was the best way Star Trek: Discovery trashed all the Star Trek universe.
The Injury Discovery Did To Star Trek
For many who’ve forgotten, when Star Trek: Discovery first debuted, the present existed previously for the primary couple of seasons. It befell in a time between Archer’s Enterprise and Kirk’s Enterprise and commenced by beginning a warfare with the Klingons.
The issue is that they made the Klingons appear like this…
And in all the remainder of Star Trek, for the reason that days of the unique sequence and restricted make-up, Klingons appear 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 folks 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 this point into the longer term that it couldn’t do any extra injury.
By then, they’d already performed lots. 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 bunch 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-style 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 sequence 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 got one.
The Enterprise we noticed on Star Trek: Discovery just isn’t the identical one we comply with on Star Trek: Unusual New Worlds. That earlier Enterprise (which, by the best way, seems barely totally different from the one on Unusual New Worlds) is off having continued adventures in the identical alternate actuality Star Trek: Discovery befell in.
Goodbye To Decrease Decks And Thanks
Nobody wished Star Trek: Decrease Decks to finish. It’s the very best factor Trek has performed since Archer’s Enterprise. Now it has solidified that standing by giving us a present. On its means out the door, Decrease Decks fastened all the Star Trek universe.
Take a second to thank Star Trek: Decrease Decks showrunner Mike McMahan. If we’re fortunate, possibly sometime Paramount will sensible up and produce Decrease Decks again for an additional franchise-fixing journey.
