There’s a way to play around with Canon and still be recognized as “trek”. You don’t have to change into a pew pew laser generic space shooter with a Star Trek icon pack applied (ahem…I’m looking at you, Discovery) in order to change up the universe a bit.
Enterprise (in the fourth season) was really really good at that while still FEELING like a Star Trek show. If the whole run had been like that it would have gotten it’s seven seasons.
That wasn’t the first time. They also said “we’re the reason vulcans do mind melds”
Exactly.
There’s a way to play around with Canon and still be recognized as “trek”. You don’t have to change into a pew pew laser generic space shooter with a Star Trek icon pack applied (ahem…I’m looking at you, Discovery) in order to change up the universe a bit.
Enterprise (in the fourth season) was really really good at that while still FEELING like a Star Trek show. If the whole run had been like that it would have gotten it’s seven seasons.