Most Star Trek fans adore Star Trek: The Original Series, and we’re happy to spend time in that time period as well as the 24th and 25th centuries. We all have fond memories of great Star Trek episodes from the foundational shows like Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Voyager, and Star Trek; Deep Space Nine. The Star Trek: Enterprise took us back to the 22nd century before Star Trek: Discovery returned to the 23rd century before jumping ahead to the 32nd century. Both Lower Decks and Prodigy are in the 24th century while Star Trek: Picard dipped a toe into the 25th century while Star Trek: Strange New Worlds redirected us to the 23rd century. And now, Starfleet Academy is on the way, and it’s set in the 32nd century. So what is going on with the other 600 years that have yet to be explored by Star Trek?
Discovery’s jump opened a door for more Star Trek that wouldn’t break the canon of previous Star Trek series, but now, any shows being set before the 32nd century are in danger of corrupting canon. So, because of Discovery’s jump, will all future shows be relegated to the 32nd century and beyond?
Keeping up with canon has to be a full-time job, and Paramount execs know fans don’t take kindly to changes to it. But creatively, there has to be a way to give us more Star Trek set during those six hundred missing years.
As much as we love all things Star Trek, we don’t want to miss out on all of the advances from century to century. And there are so many stories that could be told in those years. Give us series with more ships stranded in other quadrants. Or one with a ship stuck in a time loop that brings a constant barrage of devastating aliens and danger to the hull. Open the doors to more Federation planets during those centuries. Yes, it will be a challenge to maintain canon, but don’t skip over 600 years worth of technology and changes simply because of a time jump!
