The ninth thread emerges following on from nearly two years of occasional narrative canon discussion into some of the most popular properties in the entertainment world. Having questioned the causality of events in several franchises as well as the development and quality of several others, we now turn our attention to one of the longest on screen canon's in existence.
Star Trek
The franchise crosses over from television to film and back again multiple times over the decades and that's without considering any other form of media tied into it. In addition to that each incarnation has dabbled with alternate realities and time travel at some point all the way from simple episodic tales all the way through to the famous creation of the alternate Kelvin timeline.
The historical events of the Star Trek canon spans hundreds of years and with the various series and movies forming the core of that tale it feels like the best approach to hold on close to those elements for this thread and to follow the string along the detailed timeline that has been created by the studio. As part of this each thread update will focus around an individual season or film of the franchise in the chronological order that the portrayed events took place rather than the order they were made in.
So, we begin with the first update charting what is largely the beginning of the chain of events that would birth the Federation and mankind's exploration of the stars - the first Warp flight in:
Star Trek: First Contact
A film that requires visiting twice in this review of the canon, this first visit focuses itself on the events detailing how the crew of the Enterprise-E were supportive of the efforts to accomplish the first warp flight despite being under threat from the Borg Queen at the time. Finding themselves sent back from the 24th Century to 2063, some of the surviving crew help Cochran to get his warp vessel out into a successful warp flight, an event that leads to mankind's first contact with an alien species - the Vulcan's. The event is set up as the first milestone in everything that would follow, those early steps leading in time to the Federation itself.
As we begin this journey, the first question would be - given that this portrayal of the birth of Star Trek warp flight is such as key moment in the canon for the whole franchise, did First Contact do it justice and if not is there a way that this period of time and event should have been better covered?
Star Trek
The franchise crosses over from television to film and back again multiple times over the decades and that's without considering any other form of media tied into it. In addition to that each incarnation has dabbled with alternate realities and time travel at some point all the way from simple episodic tales all the way through to the famous creation of the alternate Kelvin timeline.
The historical events of the Star Trek canon spans hundreds of years and with the various series and movies forming the core of that tale it feels like the best approach to hold on close to those elements for this thread and to follow the string along the detailed timeline that has been created by the studio. As part of this each thread update will focus around an individual season or film of the franchise in the chronological order that the portrayed events took place rather than the order they were made in.
So, we begin with the first update charting what is largely the beginning of the chain of events that would birth the Federation and mankind's exploration of the stars - the first Warp flight in:
Star Trek: First Contact
A film that requires visiting twice in this review of the canon, this first visit focuses itself on the events detailing how the crew of the Enterprise-E were supportive of the efforts to accomplish the first warp flight despite being under threat from the Borg Queen at the time. Finding themselves sent back from the 24th Century to 2063, some of the surviving crew help Cochran to get his warp vessel out into a successful warp flight, an event that leads to mankind's first contact with an alien species - the Vulcan's. The event is set up as the first milestone in everything that would follow, those early steps leading in time to the Federation itself.
As we begin this journey, the first question would be - given that this portrayal of the birth of Star Trek warp flight is such as key moment in the canon for the whole franchise, did First Contact do it justice and if not is there a way that this period of time and event should have been better covered?
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