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<blockquote data-quote="Mustrum_Ridcully" data-source="post: 7337995" data-attributes="member: 710"><p>I still understand the desire for prequels. The audience needs to bring less insight knowledge about the setting, even if the authors might still need to keep its in mind, lest zealous fans accuse them of violating canon. And it's also the time where the Federation still seems really vulnerable. </p><p></p><p>Voyager basically single-highhandedly crippled the Borg, and before that, the Dominion was stopped, even at great cost and with some interference of god-like aliens. </p><p></p><p>That means the Federation has gotten really strong and is a total powerhouse in the galaxy. </p><p>Sure, you can let another new alien come by and say "and these guys are even tougher than the last ones". But it seems that's just like a form of power creep and something you've done before. </p><p>And it also kinda feels like it's invalidating the past successes. </p><p>That seems to be what the Star Wars sequels did. "Oh yeah, the Empire was destroyed, but we have the First Order now, and they have a super-weapon that's even more destructive than the one the Death Star had, and they also have a superpowerful Dark Sider.) MAybe fitting for a setting with a "<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SummonBiggerFish" target="_blank">Summon Bigger Fish</a>" spell.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Ultimately, nothing that happened in Discovery so far really contradicts canon. It expands on it. We absolutely don't know if there was a war against the Klingons before or not. We don't really know how far their conflicts went, or how dangerous the Klingons were. And we know the Klingons didn't seem very honorable in TOS, and that there were divisions along house lines and internal strife.</p><p></p><p>And while the war seemed to have been grand, the losses overall are not that extreme - the colonies being destroyed seem to have only populations in a few thousands apparently. Starfleet and the Klingon Forces are not massive, we're nowhere close to the Dominion War levels of warfare. The Battle of the Binary Stars still seems to be the biggest fight they had. </p><p>And that would seem consistent with canon as well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mustrum_Ridcully, post: 7337995, member: 710"] I still understand the desire for prequels. The audience needs to bring less insight knowledge about the setting, even if the authors might still need to keep its in mind, lest zealous fans accuse them of violating canon. And it's also the time where the Federation still seems really vulnerable. Voyager basically single-highhandedly crippled the Borg, and before that, the Dominion was stopped, even at great cost and with some interference of god-like aliens. That means the Federation has gotten really strong and is a total powerhouse in the galaxy. Sure, you can let another new alien come by and say "and these guys are even tougher than the last ones". But it seems that's just like a form of power creep and something you've done before. And it also kinda feels like it's invalidating the past successes. That seems to be what the Star Wars sequels did. "Oh yeah, the Empire was destroyed, but we have the First Order now, and they have a super-weapon that's even more destructive than the one the Death Star had, and they also have a superpowerful Dark Sider.) MAybe fitting for a setting with a "[URL="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SummonBiggerFish"]Summon Bigger Fish[/URL]" spell. Ultimately, nothing that happened in Discovery so far really contradicts canon. It expands on it. We absolutely don't know if there was a war against the Klingons before or not. We don't really know how far their conflicts went, or how dangerous the Klingons were. And we know the Klingons didn't seem very honorable in TOS, and that there were divisions along house lines and internal strife. And while the war seemed to have been grand, the losses overall are not that extreme - the colonies being destroyed seem to have only populations in a few thousands apparently. Starfleet and the Klingon Forces are not massive, we're nowhere close to the Dominion War levels of warfare. The Battle of the Binary Stars still seems to be the biggest fight they had. And that would seem consistent with canon as well. [/QUOTE]
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