#people bitched for YEARS that prentiss said she wanted to be cremated

[ssaalexblake]

being a fan of multiple sci-fi things that have been around for like half a century or more is funny bc yes, there are continuity errors both mild and quite large between two things aired 40 years or even 4 years apart.

Shockingly enough the story working matters more than whatever inane bit of technical nonsense or specific date and current writers are Not gonna fuck up an entire story that’s a big allegory for some real world issue over a technical detail that really, actually, doesn’t, actually matter. 

the stories are actually The most important part and the whole ‘they’re so stupid they don’t know that this contradicts Actual canon’ thing is so absurd bc it precludes to possibility that they knew it full well and elected to ignore it because a story matters more than the number of jeffries tubes on a specific model of starfleet ship.  

#i made that example up btw #like the romulan ai thing. i do not care. i can work around it. it doesn't matter. #it's fun to talk about discrepancies between different writers' visions but it's really just. pedantic. for no reason a lot of the time. #also this counts for cm #people bitched for YEARS that prentiss said she wanted to be cremated #like even if the writers Did remember that inane scene #they'd have ignored it! for poignance! have y'all ever been to a cremation service? you cannot make that as #cinematically powerful as a coffin being placed in the dirt no matter how hard you try