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I think you might be able to draw a parallel with long-running serials like comic books, or even Star Trek itself. They tend to revisit old themes and revolve around a certain status quo.

They tend not to involve multigenerational obedience to an authoritarian regime, though...

Yeah, internet drama isn't a topic that we're interested in hosting on this instance.

That setting is the rough timeframe that precedes the first season of "Picard," with the Romulan supernova, the attack on Mars, and various other events of that nature being relatively recent history.

Easily the, uh, biggest episode of the series!

Well yes, but I'm sure they could reverse the polarity of something and make it happen.

Agreed - its shape is nearly identical.

There's precedent...

Also, TrekCore has compiled some shots of what appears to the be interior:

I just realized that an 800 year-old Romulan vessel would place its origin in the 2390s...

Trek Central has also provided a picture of what is probably the Romulan ship described in the synopsis.

Aren’t prequels the default setting?

The literal words out of your literal mouth.

And spare me the concern trolling bullshit.

Separating late-period from early period Discovery doesn’t really work.

So your contention is that the third and fourth seasons of Discovery are a prequel to...something?

Picard is still a relatively hard se-quel, which resonates with the essence of my argument

Which makes it a prequel? Your argument is that the default setting is "prequel."

But okay, prequels are bad and sequels are bad, so I guess we need to pick one episode of "old Trek," and all future series and films should occur simultaneously with that episode.