Based off the uniform displayed in the latest episode, is Prodigy in (or Ensign David Garrovick from) the Kelvin timeline?
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reddit.comPosted Nov 10, 2022, 8:35 PM UTC
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reddit.comI'd say no, first because the insignia is clearly not either of the two insignia seen in those films. (It's not a patch, either, as was used in TOS, but I'd attribute that to the animation more than anything.) Second and third, the phaser and shuttle are straight-up TOS.
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All very good points. So that would mean the collar is just an production error.
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More like a stylistic choice based on artistic interpretation. LD does the same thing.
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Yeah, like my ONLY gripe about the animation on LD is that the border on the DS9-VOY-(now LD) combadges we’re gold, not grey. But whatever.
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New Trek does not have a super strict adherence to the visual canon - and in fact, the only episodes of Trek that cared were the nostalgic crossover specials such as Trials and Tribbulations, and In a Mirror, Darkly. The set and props were often designed to evoke the idea of something rather than to represent exact something.
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Makes sense: make it look nice for contemporary audiences while still capturing the legacy of the prop / outfit.
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The phaser is pure TOS
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Nope, all the shows are Prime timeline. That phaser looks nothing like the phasers from the Kelvin universe.
All of the tech and everything shows that they’re from the 2260s of the Prime Universe, not the touchscreen 2260s of the Kelvin universe.
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I see & get that, but then why make the uniform ambiguous? The uniform could have been TOS or SNW style and I wouldn’t have cared, but this one is straight from Beyond
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I don't think it's that ambiguous. I'd maybe say it were if the uniform had the textured material like the first two movies, but the uniforms for Beyond were made that way precisely so they looked more like the TV uniforms.
I'd argue that they definitely used Prime TOS Spock for the episode that featured him, and the uniform looks very similar to how it's portrayed in the most recent episode.
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See, that image of Spock in PRO clearly shows the TOS uniform complete with larger black collar, seams, and delta PATCH (not metal badge). So why show Ensign Garrovick’s uniform any different?
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The collar slipped and stretched a little when they were mounting it in the frame.
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Totally reasonable
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i still think the show is not set in the prime universe but i won't know for sure until they give us all the secrets haha
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Looks more Strange New Worlds to me.
It’s lacking SNW’s distinctive V-neck with just a hint of the black visible
Well, it would’ve been from at least 10 years after SNW, because Ensign Garrovick is from from the TOS episode “Obsession”, which is set in 2268. Starfleet uniforms change so frequently that it’s not unreasonable that there would be modifications to the style in the decade after SNW.
Except Monster Maroon. They kept that for what, eighty years?
Wonder if this is at how uniforms will evolve after SNW into TOS with the new esthetic?