Klingon ship of the dead
From their costumes to their prosthetic makeup, they've evolved drastically since the days of Worf and Gowron. For what it's worth, Discovery producers have promised that they have an answer for how Burnham's existence doesn't violate Spock's story, and that they'll reveal it eventually. Another glaring change is the fact that Spock apparently had an adopted sister in Michael Burnham, whom he never once mentioned. Cloaking technology is not the only way in which Discovery plays fast and loose with Star Trek continuity. The script - and namely the characters on the show - identified their device as a "Cloaking Screen," not a cloaking device. See? So it's not the same! It's all cool now!Įxcept for a vocal contingent of Trekkies, it's not cool at all. It's suspected that all of this was made classified by Starfleet, due to how mucking around with time tends to cause history to unravel.įor their part, the writers behind Star Trek: Discovery have already hinted that they know about the discrepancy. In a nutshell, thanks to the manipulative efforts of the mysterious Future Guy, Captain Archer and the Enterprise crew encountered cloaking technology that was being used by the evil Suliban, but thanks to a little futuristic help on their side of things, they came up with a device able to counteract cloaking. Star Trek: Enterprise later retconned this with the help of time travel and that whole "Temporal Cold War" thing. At the time, this was believed to be the first human contact with a cloaking device of any kind.
They didn't even know at the time that Romulans looked like Vulcans, so the discovery that they had cloaking technology was one of several shocks.
#KLINGON SHIP OF THE DEAD SERIES#
In the original series episode "Balance of Terror," Captain Kirk and crew experience first contact with Romulans after a war with them ended a century earlier. The matter at hand is that Klingons had cloaking tech much earlier than we were led to believe. There's no guarantee that Discovery will ever explain where T'Kuvma's cloaking device came from, especially if such a revelation doesn't serve the story. This flies in the face of information established by Star Trek: The Original Series.ĭid T'Kuvma develop his own cloaking device, separate from the Klingon Empire's later efforts? Did he acquire the technology from another alien race, like the Romulans? That wouldn't be too hard to imagine, given the two empires' sharing of this technology a few years down the road. All we know is that his ship, which hasn't been named on the show but was informally known among the production crew as "the Sarcophagus Ship," is now the first known Klingon ship capable of cloaking. Since last night's episode, "Context is for Kings," was quite light on Klingons, Star Trek: Discovery has not yet revealed how T'Kuvma was able to get his hands on cloaking tech.
Yet Star Trek's long, complicated history says that Klingons shouldn't have cloaking devices on-hand for another decade or so. The antagonist, T'Kuvma, was able to render his flagship invisible to his enemies at a pivotal moment in the story. One canonical change that fans have been dwelling on is how the Klingons on Star Trek: Discovery somehow have access to cloaking technology. It's inevitable, however, that any attempt to breathe fresh life into a venerable franchise is going to come with some growing pains, and few things draw the ire of those resistant to change like new creators coming in and violating established continuity. The two-part premiere of Star Trek: Discovery was a thrilling ride with vibrant, fascinating characters, and a new visual interpretation of Gene Roddenberry's classic creation. Spoilers ahead for the first two episodes of Star Trek: Discovery