by Joshua Tyler
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Star Trek: Lower Decks It had its big finale this week, and while ending the show, they fixed one of the worst problems Star Trek has ever had. This problem has been named Star Trek: DiscoveryFortunately, it is no longer part of the official main timeline of Star Trek canon.
Basement floors It has always taken full advantage of its animated format to fix some of the franchise's nagging questions and biggest missteps. They made a lot of things easier, but the one thing that seemed impossible to smooth out was the road Star Trek: Discovery The entire Star Trek universe was destroyed.
Discover the damage done to Star Trek
For those who forgot when Star Trek: discovery The show debuted, and has existed in the past for its first two seasons. It happened sometime between Archer's Enterprise and Kirk's Enterprise and started a war with the Klingons.
The problem is that they made the Klingons look like this…
And in all the rest of Star Trek, from the days of the original series and limited makeovers, Klingons look like this…
And that was just the beginning of the chaos discovery I tried to make it a Trek universe. The show was created with the goal of erasing all the journeys that came before, and it's starting to do so very quickly.
By season two, however, people are in Paramount I realized this was a terrible idea and not what anyone wanted. So, they came up with an excuse to send the show far into the future where it couldn't do any more damage.
By then, they had already done a lot. Fortunately, now it doesn't matter because Star Trek: Lower Decks The end confirmed that events discovery Taking place in an alternate reality.
How Star Trek: Lower Decks removed Discovery from canon
Paramount has been clear since the show's inception that, even though it's an animation, Star Trek: Lower Decks It is fully canon and takes place in the main timeline of the Star Trek universe. So what happens in Basement floors Not fan fiction or alternate universe.
In the show's finale, a group of Klingon ships encounter a phenomenon that transforms objects into alternate reality versions of themselves. When a Klingon ship hits one of those mutant rays, it turns big and ugly discovery-style Klingon ship.
Then one of the crew members turns on discovery-Klingon style.
This couldn't happen if those were weird discovery Klingons have ever existed in the main Star Trek timeline. That means it discovery And the Klingons, just like the JJ Abrams Star Trek films, took place in an alternate universe. One that has nothing to do with the rest of Star Trek.
Strange New Worlds remains in the main timeline
You're probably wondering if this means… Star Trek: Strange New Worlds Also exists in the same universe since the series was a spin-off of discovery. Fortunately, the answer is definitely no.
The only Klingons we ever see Strange new worlds They look just like the Klingons we've been used to seeing since then Whorf I went up on a bridge The next generation. There was absolutely no solid explanation as to why they were so different from discovery Klingons, but now we have one.
The institution we saw Star Trek: Discovery It is not the same as the one we follow Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. That earlier institution (which, by the way, looks a little different from the later ones Strange new worlds) is interrupted by ongoing adventures in the same alternate reality Star Trek: Discovery I fell in.
Goodbye basements and thanks
Nobody wants Star Trek: Lower Decks till the end. that it Best thing Trek did Since Project Archer. And now you've cemented that status by giving us a gift. On her way out the door, Basement floors The entire Star Trek universe has been overhauled.
Take a moment to give thanks Star Trek: Lower Decks Showrunner Mike McMahan. If we're lucky, maybe Paramount will get the sense to bring it on one day Basement floors Back for another franchise overhaul adventure.
