Insult might be about to be added to injury for the team behind Star Trek: Discovery. According to reports circulating online, Paramount has scrubbed Star Trek: Discovery from the main canon. It has been pushed sideways into an alternate timeline so its events are held not to impact the Prime timeline.
This is after it was abruptly canceled earlier than originally planned.
Expectations were high when Star Trek: Discovery debuted. That expectation quickly evaporated as it was filled with unlikeable characters behaving in ways completely out of keeping with their status as Starfleet officers.
There was also criticism over drastic changes in the portrayal of iconic species like the Klingons, events that impacted the established timelines and disrupted character arcs. If there is one continuity and canon in all of entertainment you don’t mess with, it’s Star Trek. Those fans take this stuff seriously.
Paramount, or the creatives, seemingly utilized the final episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks to address the controversies of Discovery once and for all.
The online commentary centers on the rift surrounded by a Schrödinger possibility field that maps matter into alternate-reality versions from the multiverse. This event transforms the main timeline Klingons into those seen in Discovery, delineating between the two universes while Lower Decks remains canon and part of the prime timeline, Discovery is relegated to an alternate reality.
Magic space reset button, engage! Therefore the Alex Kurtzman-created series is no longer able to impact the overarching narrative of the Prime Universe.
Michael Burnham will scowl furiously at this news.
I don’t follow Nu-Trek or the discussions around it closely enough to understand any of this. Is it true? Or just online wish fulfilment?