This week’s episode had a fancy new Klingon ship identified as a D7, which is the classic TOS model. This goes with my friend’s headcanon that Star Trek has been like a historical record for future people who live in the Trek universe, so the effects are limited by the budget in-universe. Each visual change in more recent series are more representative of how they actually looked, or the recreation of this particular series took an artistic choice.
Adding this layer of fiction within the fiction helps smooth over any changes for me.
I never thought of it that way. That’s a really cool concept.
Umm… wait. So Star Trek is basically a series of historical holonovels. So, there is apparently an historical holonovel of Riker visiting an historical holonovel to help him decide what to do about the events of The Pegasus?
I still refuse to believe Trip Tucker would have died how that episode said he did. As Connor Trinneer has said, Trip had been in far worse situations before and come out of them alive. That is one of the reasons I will never watch that episode, ever again.
Historical documents you say? 😛
There is a novel that undoes that damage inflicted by These Are The Voyages. (Trip’s death is not what it appears.) The title escapes me at the moment.