Jun 222017
New photos released from Star Trek: Discovery show three things of interest:
1: Have these people never seen a transporter room in *any* star Trek series? STD is set approximately at the same time as the original Star Trek pilot, “The Menagerie.” Which looked like this:
2: They’re wearing some sort of minimal body armor. Not entirely new for Star Trek… security guards wore armor (including helmets) in ST:TMP and STIII)
3: Their phasers, at least, look like they are actually based on TOS-era phasers. It would be odd if the one design element that they actually carry over from actual Star Trek is the one design element that they should feel pretty free to change. After all, during “The Menagerie,” starfleet’s sidearm looked like this:
