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Message: <blockquote data-quote="billd91" data-source="post: 7992485" data-attributes="member: 3400">I can definitely see that. A lot comes down to where to draw the line between major elements of the continuity and nitpicks or unnecessary minutiae. I can see people being ticked off if a Star Trek species were significantly changed - like Klingons becoming pacifists or Orions becoming a force for law and order in space. That's a pretty big shift. But adding an order of Romulan warrior nuns who work to oppose a clandestine cabal within Romulan politics? That's pretty minor and, arguably, added texture rather than a major transformation and should be treated accordingly. Not ever deviation from old canon is a slap in the face.One aspect of telling stories, particularly in an IP that's been around a while and may have a lot of fan baggage attached to it, is that stories may challenge the fans and their understanding of the IP. To use a cross-IP example, some of the latest Star Wars films have been doing that - and you see it in a lot of fan complaints that the heroism of the original trilogy is all undone because things didn't turn out all that great 40 years later or that the Rebel Alliance should never have been willing to send snipers to take out significant Imperial personnel as in Rogue One or have some hard and gritty edges. Both of those challenge what people assumed about the Star Wars saga but there was no real basis for making those assumption in the first place given what we know about history and military and insurgency expediencies. In the case of Picard, you see echoes of the same sentiments - that the behavior of Star Fleet in Picard is incompatible with the optimism of Star Trek.</blockquote>

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