Overall these were nicely done. They create a perfect bridge between TOS and Star Trek: The Motion Picture and even explain things in that film (like why Spock undergoes the Kolinahr discipline). Pacing was good, acting very good and a solid story.
Having Digduggery in there means spore drive happened and Michael happened and those dumb Klingoffs happened. They did NOT happen in the prime timeline. Might as well have put the Firefly in there too.Can you imagine the Enterprise doing a barrel roll ... Thats a real shame they stuck the std in there indeed . It has nothing to do with Star Trek .
Why "Optimistic"? I just didn't let a scene that lasted about 3 seconds ruin everything.
Like I said it was just a couple of seconds so I ignored it - if I were theorycrafting they may have been told by CBS that they had to include it in order to be allowed to finish STC.
Back to the episode; I really liked how they pulled in multiple elements from other episodes of TOS and also how they made the episode serve as a bridge between TOS and Star Trek The Motion Picture. Lots of good acting and we got to see things hinted at before (like the Enterprise doing a saucer separation). We got to find out what happened to the espers from TOS (Gary Mitchell et al) and even followed up on Sub Commander Tal from The Enterprise Incident. And the ending set up all the main characters for how we find them in ST:TMP.
Annoying to be sure. But ultimately it won't amount to much in the long run. STD will no doubt be marginalized and forgotten about within a few years. It's clearly not successful despite TPTB trying their hardest to make us think that it is. And this attempt to legitimize STD by shoehorning it into another ST vehicle would be laughable if it wasn't so pathetic.
It was pathetically desperate to have Leonard Nimoy in Star Trek 2009 and Into Darkness to attempt cred and a connection to real Star Trek. Just like it is pathetic for the Captain of this ship to have a tribble randomly crawling around his desk. WTF? 10 years later, on Enterprise 1701, the ship was overrun with them. And that Gorn skeleton, Kirk did not know of the Gorns before so what gives? Desperation abounds for these new dumb writers trying to helm the Star Trek property. They think it's like all the other oatmeal out there, where you just have to plug in pretty faces/big names, and have plenty 'splosions and fancy visual stuff. Isn't that was Star Wars is for? Star Trek fans and creators are not "run-of-the-mill", so why use run of the mill writers/producers to do it?