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Originally Posted by notorious

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Very much so, the assumed vicious beast is peaceful and intelligent. Nice twist! It appears as if the beast is in pain when they use it, though.

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Hence why it's defensible to set the show prior to TOS in the timeline. Beyond the cosmetic differences between set and costume design between the 1960s and current, the Mycelium trans-warp drive, holographic displays and images and the site-to-site transport are the points that people have noted are anachronistic.

If Sporewarp isn't possible without figuratively torturing a sentient being, then Starfleet would have a reason to nix the technology and not bring it up in the 'future' of TOS and TNG et al. The egregious holograph slip up so far has been Sarek "sitting" down in Burnham's quarters along with the fact it was a live conversation some untold billions of miles away from Vulcan. Beyond that, I haven't had any issue with holographic displays and projections because (so far) TNG-era hologram were extremely advanced and had a physical presence via tractor beams. Until we see Burnham use a hologram Tommy Gun to shoot some Klingons, I'm not going to care about how advanced Discovery tech is compared to TOS and TNG tech. It's a show about spaceships y'all and visual effects have caught up from using plywood panels and multicolored incandescent lights, Pepper's Ghosts and other camera tricks to make things look futuristic.

However they do need to calm down with the site-to-site transport though. That's been a little too convenient considering the canon.