It was fun to score this :)

Yeah, that’s how I have my coffee too. I blame Janeway for my coffee habits. 😂

Fair enough.

Agreed there. I mean, I’d happily accept - even if it makes no sense - if they just at the end of SNW had the TOS Enterprise show up, with a “she got refit”. Would it “really” work? Nah. But it’s an explanation, and the SNW Enterprise is already different internally from the DSC Enterprise.

Okay. 👍🖖

I should point out that I’m not _angry_ about these discontinuities. I find them incredibly fascinating. Indeed, LDS has - by virtue of its including all these designs - turned it into a fun headcanon question. But a question it remains. 3/3

(Generations is an aberration in this only because of production) But in SNW, we have these slight discontinuities that now show the Enterprise cycling between three variants in the space of four years. Even disregarding TOS’ visuals, SNW has changed something. 2/

That’s true! And also within TNG, and Generations, and later DS9, and Lower Decks has canonised that beautifully with in-universe inferred explanations. But the difference is, except in Generations, there was some consistency about where those were worn. Cerritos has one uni. Titan has another 1/

There are ridiculous logical endpoints of arguments about any sense-impaired individual’s enjoyment of a piece of media that could be considered. I don’t disregard the opinion of other fans. All I said was _for me_, visuals are canon; they matter to me. I don’t ask them to matter to anyone else 2/2

On this point: my counterpoint to that is that television is a visual experience. Things are designed to be seen, and the design has meaning or intent. That might not be part of another fan’s world, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t exist and shouldn’t be thought about at all. 1/

I mean, not as much because there’s an explanation provided that allows for more suspension of disbelief than the current visual inconsistencies allow. I can accept and imagine that TMP comes after TOS. I can’t as readily imagine SNW _is_ TOS.

I said “I” consider visuals canon. For me, it’s a part of my viewing experience. For a visually impaired person, it might not be. I ascribe importance to visuals. Others do not, whether viewing impaired or otherwise.

Okay, so 1: I’m a fan, not the guy in charge of writing the stuff or organising the production. The inconsistency exists, whether you ascribe importance to it or not. As to your second point: I think you’re reaching for something that isn’t present in my commentary.

Slightly, but i find it kind of interesting that there’s things like the SNW uniform showing up for pre-Cage characters, the SNW uniform and Klingons in place of the Disco stuff for the war flashbacks… YMMV on whether visual consistency is a canon thing but even current Trek isn’t great at it.

That’s sort of a non-sequitur to the question (though for the record I agree). And the visual inconsistency extends to how SNW shows Disco and pre-Disco.