Non-cape tv show

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

I don't like Discovery either, but making conspiracy theories isn't exactly healthy

Shapeshifting Gorn are behind it all, I tell ya.

[Guest]

Every guest does it

Why do we let them post, again?

This is Current Year. You can't have a white cis male
be mentally healthy and a genius. That's elitist, and highly problematic.

The point, which illiterate guestfag seems to have missed, is that Sherlock Holmes was all of those things. He was a drug addict, but coke and heroin (morphine) were legal in the 19th Century so it wasn't a big deal. Numerous people have interpreted Holmes to be autistic, he's certainly eccentric, but again, they didn't 'have' autism in the 19th Century so that also wasn't considered a big deal

Sherlock was always autistic! - Keith Chegwin

[Keith Chegwin]

Sherlock was always autistic! - Keith Chegwin

Yeah, and? What's your point?

[Guest]

This isn't twitter, Spoony.

[Kugelfisch]

this still wouldn't make Discovery fake Trek if it's just a matter of visuals having to look slightly changed.

I feel like people just latched onto this idea to denounce Discovery and played a game of telephone to trump up the significance, if it had any to begin with.

It still is fake Trek because it's all taking place in "a different time line" or in other words not canonical. It doesn't matter if through the merger the rights are all in the same company again because that doesn't make the intentionally non-canonical works suddenly canonical in retrospect. It still isn't canonical with the normal, actual time line and thus basically some ol' bullshit.
The argument was never if it actually is Star Trek. It is. They do have and always have had the rights to it. Just like every single Star Wars novel and game technically is proper Star Wars and every WH40k novel is technically proper Warhammer 40k. That still doesn't mean it's canonical and in the case of the Jew-Jew Binks ST and that handled by his production company they aren't.

[Guest]

Nobody would sperg about muh canon if JewJew Trek didn't suck ass but it does so it's just more of the shit sandwich.

[Rushy]

It still isn't canonical with the normal, actual time line and thus basically some ol' bullshit.

They literally mix 60s footage with it
I dunno how much more canon you can get

[Guest]

It still isn't canonical with the normal, actual time line and thus basically some ol' bullshit.

They literally mix 60s footage with it
I dunno how much more canon you can get

You mix cum into your Fanta. Is that the traditional recipe?

[Rushy]

My point is, this Discovery-being-an-alternate-timeline thing is just bullshit fans made up to justify cutting it out of their mental canon.
Hell, *I* don't count it as canon, but it's not an "alternate timeline", it's just a shitty show that shoehorns itself into TOS. It very clearly and desperately is intended to be part of that.

What drives me up a wall is that Picard's main premise concerns them blowing up Romulus in the 2009 movie, because it means the OG timeline somehow survived even though Spock massively changed history. Like, why do we have alternate realities now when in all the Trek shows, time travel just changed things in the OG timeline?

[Kugelfisch]

My point is, this Discovery-being-an-alternate-timeline thing is just bullshit fans made up to justify cutting it out of their mental canon.

I know that that's your point but you're just plain wrong. Discovery is "prime continuity" aka not TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager and Enterprise continuity. They just mix and match with old footage because they are total fucking hackfrauds that don't know what the fuck they are doing.
And that's just the official side. As far as I'm cocerned personally Discovery is about as legit as some random faggot's Harry Potter/Twilight slashfiction.