From Joshua Tyler
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Star Trek: Lower Decks had its grand finale this week, and while they closed the show, they solved one of the worst problems Star Trek has ever had. This problem is named Star Trek: Discoveryand thankfully it is no longer part of the main timeline’s official Star Trek canon.
Lower decks has always taken full advantage of its animated format to address some of the franchise’s pesky questions and biggest flaws. They smoothed out many things, but the one thing that seemed impossible to smooth out was the path Star Trek: Discovery destroyed the entire Star Trek universe.
The damage Discovery did to Star Trek
For those who have forgotten when Star Trek: discovery After the series first premiered, it existed for the first few seasons in the past. It took place in the time between Archer’s Enterprise and Kirk’s Enterprise and began with the start of a war with the Klingons.
The problem is that they made the Klingons look like this…
And in the rest of Star Trek, Klingons have looked like this since the days of the original series and limited makeup…
That was just the beginning of the mess discovery tried to make from the Trek universe. The show was made with the goal of wiping out all previous Trek films, and that was going to happen pretty quickly.
However, by the second season, people were on board Of utmost importance I realized this was a terrible idea and not what anyone wanted. So they made up an excuse to send the show so far into the future that it couldn’t do any more damage.
They had already accomplished a lot. Luckily it doesn’t matter anymore because that Star Trek: Lower Decks Finale confirmed that the events of discovery take place in an alternative reality.
How Star Trek: Lower Decks Removed Discovery from Canon
Paramount has been clear since the beginning of the series that although the series is animated, Star Trek: Lower Decks is completely canon and takes place in the main timeline of the Star Trek universe. So what happens in Lower decks is not fan fiction or an alternate universe.
In the series finale, a group of Klingon ships encounter a phenomenon that transforms things into alternate reality versions of themselves. When a Klingon ship encounters one of these transformation beams, it transforms into a big, ugly ship Discovery-style Klingon ship.
Then one of the crew members turns into a discoveryKlingon in style.
This couldn’t have happened if this had been strange discovery Klingons had always existed in the main Star Trek timeline. That’s what it means discovery and his Klingons took place in an alternate universe, just like JJ Abrams’ Star Trek films. One that has nothing to do with the rest of Star Trek.
Strange New Worlds is still the main timeline
You may be wondering if that means Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also exists in the same universe, as the series was a spin-off of discovery. Luckily, the answer is absolutely not.
The only Klingons we ever see Strange New Worlds look exactly like the Klingons we’ve been used to since Worf entered the bridge of The next generation. There has never been a coherent explanation as to why they look so different discovery Klingons, but now we have one.
The Enterprise we saw Star Trek: Discovery is not the same as what we follow Star Trek: Strange New Worlds. The previous Enterprise (which, by the way, looks a little different than the previous one). Strange New Worlds) is currently embarking on further adventures in the same alternate reality Star Trek: Discovery took place in.
Goodbye, Lower Decks and thank you
Nobody wanted Star Trek: Lower Decks over. It’s that The best thing Trek has done since Archer’s Enterprise. Now it has cemented that status by giving us a gift. On the way out the door, Lower decks fixed the entire Star Trek universe.
Take a moment to say thank you Star Trek: Lower Decks Showrunner Mike McMahan. If we’re lucky, maybe one day Paramount will come up with the idea and make it Lower decks back for another franchise fixing adventure.
