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No Malarkey!2/03/2019 5:42:01 pm PST

re: #223 A Three Hour Tour

CBS can sell it however they want. They can call it Prime Timeline, but, in practice, no matter the intention in 2009, Prime Timeline is a useless marketing buzzphrase that simply means “not-Abrams.”

Fine, CBS, you want to call Discovery “Prime.” Okay, it’s ” prime. ” Then I reclassify TOS as the ur-Timeline from which the Prime and Kelvin timelines derive. The Abrams films only really establish that fifty-something year old Spock and 157 year old Spock look like old Leonard Nimoy and that at some point, the Prime Enterprise crew looked like the movie cast during the filming of Star Trek V.

And since Star Trek V invented a spurious half-sibling for Spock, contrary to DC Fontana’s proclamation that Spock was an only child, I would argue that one of the distinguishing characteristics of the Prime Timeline from the original ur-Timeline is that it is one in which Spock has “secret” half- and foster-siblings.

And that’s how I watch DISCOVERY without the visual and other continuity glitches driving me crazy - er, crazier.

I don’t worry about it because its all fictional. Like in the comics the same heroes keep being updated and changed for the current era, and nobody freaks out.