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What normies see when someone posts here claiming Discovery isn't canon (startrek.website)

submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (4 children)

The whole idea of "Canon" is a comforting self delusion and lie.
Let it go. Enjoy what's in front of you. Stop getting distracted by things that don't really matter to the story at hand. That's how TOS did it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Let it go?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

I love that song

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I mean there's nothing wrong with your second point about enjoying what you like and not getting distracted by minutiae, buuuut unlike other franchises Star Trek quite literally does have an official canon:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Trek_canon

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

That would be the lie part.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Wake up sheeple Big Trek and Wikipedia are lying to you!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Canon

Ah, yes, the word that separates which made-up stories are more real than other made-up stories!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

YES! Perfect description! That should be the definition of the term.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

TOS is underrated

[–] [email protected] 15 points 9 months ago (3 children)

ALL Star Trek is underrated.

Star Trek should have been the property that influences the entire culture of the United States of America, like how Doctor Who influences the culture of the United Kingdom. Instead, US culture is based around Star Wars and Star Trek is regulated to a bunch of punchlines that normal people know just enough to understand.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

This is a hot take out of, like, 1979. The general public hasn't had this relationship to Trek in a long ass time.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

Star Wars is a story about how America is bad and fascism can be defeated through the power of taoist philosophy. That doesn't sound like the currently dominant American value system to me

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago

I honestly don't care