This just doesn't add up
According to the opening credits, the astronauts left in 1980 on their mission. However in 1973, Zira and Cornelius landed back on Earth In Escape, so the astronauts had to be fully aware of talking apes
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shareThats no excuse
shareI hate to say it but millsey is right. Blatant contradictions should be avoided in good fiction. That excuse leads to bad fiction.
Now, I'm of the mind that this is a "parallel" universe. Apes assumed ascendancy but humans didn't descend into non-sapience.
Author of the Sodality Universe:
The Road fro Antioch
In the Markets of Tyre
Flight to Lystra
The Theater of Ephesus
The Council on Jerusalem (coming real soon now. In final edits.)
The Shattered World Series begins in 2025.
There is also a Dr. Zaius who is different from the film Zaius. It's just a matter of the screenwriters not caring about continuity.
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