History WMG / StarTrekTheOriginalSeries

* The problem here is production order vs order episodes aired, som episodes were aired close to their production date and som much earlier or later, this involved differences in terminology, (consider terms such as Vulcanian rather than Vulcan.) As even now there is inconsistency in terminology due to age, location, experience and so on, it is really just that here as well.

* It's common knowledge that Walter Koenig's "Russian accent" is spectacularly bad, which sort of lent to the NarmCharm of the character. However, from an InUniverse point of view, what if Chekov actually suffers from a kind of speech impediment that leaves hum unable to pronounce "v's" correctly? The nu-Chekov "Wiktor... wiktor..." scene sort of supports it, given that he's struggling to pronounce it.

* In the episode [[Recap/StarTrekS1E19TomorrowIsYesterday "Tomorrow Is Yesterday"]] we find the ship's computer was given a female voice after being repaired on Cygnet [=XIV=], a planet dominated by women. Those in charge of repairing the computer reprogrammed the computer so that it speaks in a female voice, constantly calling the Captain "dear" and having "an unfortunate tendency to giggle", explained by Spock in deadpan seriousness as because they "felt it lacked personality". Much to the annoyance of Captain Kirk, naturally, and providing some comic relief for the audience.\\\

In "The Corbomite Maneuver", Kirk says the Enterprise is a ''United Earth'' ship. the U.E. is the same governing body that Archer and his crew answered to, and it's not until "Arena" (the 19th episode) that Kirk speaks of the Federation. All of this could suggest that the ''Temporal Cold War'' ended inbetween Kirk's missions to Beta VI and Cestus III.

{{Series/Highlander}} showed there were were several immortals. But during the Eugenics wars, World War III and the Post-Atomic Horror, many died out. Flint was one of the last who made it off world. Prior to the events of Recap/StarTrekS3E19RequiemForMethuselah, Flint made sure that he had the resources to get off world as soon as that was possible. He played the markets and bought an out of the way planet. McCoy's tricorder just picked up how the Highlander immortality works - notice that Flint didn't flich whem McCoy offered his theory. Also - by being away from Earth, many immortals started to lose their power. Those who didn't hide like Flint likely died during the wars prior to Kirk's time.

Especially at the end of the war, when the Romulans were already retreading, the highlight of many Coalition (the Federation's predecessor - see [[Series/StarTrekEnterprise ENT]]) victory parties were the bottles with that tasty alcoholic drink in it, which the fleeing Romulans had left behind. (The Romulans did take great care in destroying every bit of critical data and technology before they retreaded from a conquered planet - but drinks were apparently considered a not all too important "technology".)\\\

[[WMG: The warp drive is fed from the leavings of the replicators and transporter]]
* This is more a WMG for the entire series. Converting energy to matter generates an equal ammount of {{antimatter}}, which, of course, is what the ship runs on. So they teleport the antimatter straight into the reactor. Since we never see them actually mining/making antimatter and it has to come from somwhere...

* Converting energy to matter generates an equal ammount of {{antimatter}}, which, of course, is what the ship runs on. So they teleport the antimatter straight into the reactor. Since we never see them actually mining/making antimatter and it has to come from somwhere...

Gene Roddenberry being supposedly wanting to portray a humanistic, post-religious vision of the future, it might not be surprising if the episode was meant to highlight the dangers of too-closely emulating a book that describes the culture of a historical but alien civilization- which is an accusation critics of religion often levelled at those who use Literature/TheBible the same way in Western societies ([[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment and that, naturally, is all we'll say about that...]]).

* After Pike's first visit, visit is prohibited (DIS: "If Memory Serves"), however no mention is made of capital punishment.
* In that same episode and TOS: "The Menagerie", the Talosians are shown to be adept at producing incredibly advanced illusions for whatever purposes they need, including the prevention of visitors.
* It is well established in other episodes of TOS, ENT, and DIS that United Earth and the Federation did not have capital punishment from well before 2266. While it's not impossible to bring back the death penalty, it seems unlikely for these circumstances
* Three years later, Janice Lester tries to take the ''Enterprise'' back to Talos IV. When the crew objects, they cite General Order 4, not 7, which is a weird oversight to make when talking about something exceptional like execution.

[[WMG:Spock is a direct descendant of SherlockHolmes.]]

[[WMG: The Mirror Universe was created by the Guardian of Forever.]]
* When [=McCoy=] saved Edith Keeler, he created an alternate timeline where the Nazis won WWII and conquered the world, destroying Federation civilization and replacing it with the fascist Terran Empire. When Kirk and Spock travelled back in time to stop [=McCoy=] from saving her, they were able to return to their own timeline, but because of a temporal paradox created by the Guardian, the Alternate Universe wasn't destroyed and remained intertwined with the original universe, allowing occasional crossovers under certain conditions. Historical changes prior to WWII, such as the literary differences noted by Dr. Phlox, are actually historical revisionism or propaganda.

* When [=McCoy=] saved Edith, causing Hitler to win WWII and take over the world, the changes rippled further in time, to the mindset that led to the shooting of the Vulcan emissary in 2063, and further to the creation of the Terran Empire that has persisted in the mirror universe throughout Trek history. Consider: