“I don’t immediately understand how detached nacelles or personal transporters work!”

Isn’t that kinda the point? Because there’s been 900 years of technological advancement?

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#StarTrekDiscovery

Personally, I *love* seeing imaginative future technology whose function does not fit immediately within my 2020 frame of reference. #StarTrek fans have gotten so comfortable with tech manuals we forget that TOS just presented us new tech without any explanation for its function.

You can’t tell me that - based just off everything seen on screen in #StarTrekTOS - that you have much idea how warp drive or transporters work.

How exciting to have returned to something wondrously new and different. That fans will inevitably explain, as they did in the 70s.

I totally understand questioning the aesthetic choices behind certain design ideas (disappearing floors seems like a bad design choice), but I don’t at all get the “well this isn’t automatically technobabbled to me therefore I don’t like it.”

That sounds like an exhausting way to enjoy television.