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Star Trek: The Lower Decks had their big finale this week and in the process of ending the show they fixed one of the worst problems Star Trek has ever had. That problem is named Star Trek: Discoveryand thankfully no longer part of the official Star Trek canon in the main timeline.
Lower decks has always taken full advantage of its animated format to fix some of the franchise’s nagging questions and biggest mistakes. They smoothed out a lot of things, but one thing that seemed impossible was the road Star Trek: Discovery destroyed the entire Star Trek universe.
The Damage Discovery Caused Star Trek
For those who forgot when Star Trek: Discovery first debuted, the show existed in the past for the first few seasons. It took place in the time between Archer’s Enterprise and Kirk’s Enterprise and started with the start of the war with the Klingons.
The problem is that they made the Klingons look like this…
And in the rest of Star Trek, since the original series and the limited makeup, Klingons look like this…
That was just the beginning of the mess Discovery they tried to make space Trek. The show was created with the goal of erasing all the Treks that had gone before, and it decided to do it pretty quickly.
By the second season, however, people on Paramount he realized it was a terrible idea and no one wanted it. So they came up with an excuse to send the show so far into the future that it couldn’t do any more damage.
By that time, they had already accomplished a lot. Fortunately, it doesn’t matter now because Star Trek: The Lower Decks the finale confirmed that the events of Discovery they take place in an alternate reality.
How Star Trek: The Lower Decks Removed Discovery from the Canon
Paramount was clear from the show’s inception that although it was animated, Star Trek: The Lower Decks is full canon and takes place in the main timeline of the Star Trek universe. So what happens in Lower decks not fan fiction or alternate universe.
In the show’s finale, a group of Klingon ships encounter a phenomenon that transforms things into alternate reality versions of themselves. When a Klingon ship hits one of these transformation beams, it transforms into a big, ugly one Discovery-style Klingon ship.
Then one of the crew members turns into a va DiscoveryKlingon style.
This couldn’t happen if it was weird Discovery Klingons ever existed in the main Star Trek timeline. That means Discovery and his Klingons, like the JJ Abrams Star Trek films, took place in an alternate universe. One that has nothing to do with the rest of Star Trek.
Strange New Worlds is still a major timeline
You might be wondering if that means Star Trek: Strange New Worlds also exists in the same universe since the series was a spinoff Discovery. Fortunately, the answer is absolutely no.
The only Klingons we’ve ever seen Strange new worlds looking exactly like the Klingons we’ve been used to since Worf stepped onto the bridge A new generation. There has never been any solid explanation as to why they look so different Discovery Klingons, but now we have one.
The Enterprise we saw on 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 one on Strange new worlds) continues to adventure in the same alternate reality Star Trek: Discovery took place in
Goodbye lower decks and thanks
Nobody wanted Star Trek: The Lower Decks end. It is the best thing Trek has done by Archer’s Enterprise. Now she 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 give thanks Star Trek: The Lower Decks showrunner Mike McMahan. If we’re lucky, maybe one day Paramount will wise up and deliver Lower decks back to another franchise repair adventure.
