It’s better to look at the show as a soft reboot than a direct prequel.
I found this. I think a self-imposed Vulcan mental block in a future episode of SNW could reconcile the two shows.
Christine Chapel confesses her love for Spock (Star Trek TOS) - YouTube
“A Vulcan should have a more resilient bladder.” 
“Preboot”?
One of the writers of this episode came from Lower Decks (she wrote the great LD episode that explored the Klingon and Vulcan ships) which explains the lighter tone. I like comedic Trek episodes and I liked this one but it has a problem that is pervasive in the Paramount Plus era Trek series: the characters almost never seem like adults. They act like they are teen agers on some kind of training cruise out in space. It’s on Discovery and this show too. They almost never act like professionals doing a job.
That’s what people from a hundred years ago would probably say about today’s workforce.
The nicer worlds of the Federation are mostly post-scarcity. Nobody has to work if they don’t want to. So it could be argued that anyone who does choose to have a job is pretty much larping.
I guess I left out specifically saying , “As compared to every other Trek series prior” which are also set in the future and in post scarcity societies. I am sure I am being just an old man yelling at clouds but there is a difference that I think makes these shows weaker than they need to be.
On the original series and to a lesser extent TNG, large numbers of the cast, crew and writers had military experience. And a lot more of the audience had military experience. It came through naturally.
Not so much anymore.
Yeah, I was half expecting a big reveal that they were talking to some kind of chatbot the whole time.
T’Pril may be a racist bitch, but she’s kinda write about Spock and T’Pring’s marriage being a mésalliance.
Roddenberry himself, notably. He was a pilot in the Army Air Corps. He even once crashed a B-17 by overshooting a runway on landing, and the crash killed a couple of crewmen, but he was ultimately cleared of responsibility. He had seen and done some stuff, and I’m sure that informed Star Trek quite a bit. He was also in a second plane crash (as a passenger that time), and then after his military career, he was in a third plane crash while he was a Pan Am pilot. In that case, he dragged injured people out of the burning plane and saved lives despite having two broken ribs.
After that third crash, he quit his career as a pilot and pursued a career as a TV writer. At the same time, he joined the LAPD (he majored in Police Science in college) and eventually became the speechwriter for the police chief, and then the liaison between the LAPD and the show Dragnet, becoming a technical advisor for episodes. He also wrote for some episodes of the show, and did more technical advising and writing before deciding that being a policeman and a writer was too much, and started writing full time.
When you consider all of that, it’s no surprise that the original Star Trek series had the stiff tone that it had, especially comparing it to later Trek series. Just consider the experience of the person who conceived of it. This was a guy who spent life in the military during WWII, then as a commercial pilot in the late 40s, then as a cop.
Yep. And producers Fred Freiberger, Bob Justman, and Gene L. Coon, and actors DeForest Kelley, James Doohan, Leonard Nimoy and Mark Lenard, among others.
Also, the audience had a lot more people who had served and expected a military ship to have military protocols.
Wrong thread
For fans of Hemmer, like me, the latest episode was a disappointment given the rumors,
However, aside from that let-down I really liked it.
Yeah, many speculations were crushed that day.
Pelia had crumbs on her uniform. Well, of course. It was “real cookie day.”
Explains why there was only 1 left.
Oh wow, I did not make that connection while I watched that episode, but that really makes sense. I’m embarrassed that it didn’t occur to me.
I love those little attentions to detail and callbacks in an episode!
I love this show so much. It’s everything I want from Star Trek.