Discovery's lead character will be referred to in the series as “Number One”

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There's also this! Nicholas Meyer to write the second episode of the show!

Is this the same "Number One" that's played by Majel Barrett in The Cage?

How does this character turn into a black or latina female?

 

I hope it doesn't mean that they'll be a character referred to as "number two".

 

It would be very cool if the lead character was Majel Barrett's Number One from "The Cage". Novels and behind the scenes materials aside, she's a blank slate.

 

Presumably it isn't the same Number One. That's just a British-style form of address for first officers. Picard called Riker "Number One" as well.

 

Yeah different characters I'd imagine. It's a nice callback to TNG and The Cage.

 

Didn't a lot of the old fanon backstory for Majel's character of Number One include stuff about being a genetically engineered life form? Could that include the ability to change her appearance?

I've always been a little bothered that Abrams' movies didn't do a thing with her but if that leaves her open for Fuller that's even better (I know we're in different timelines).

 

More on the subject from Trekcore: http://trekcore.com/blog/2016/08/bryan-fuller-delivers-new-star-trek-discovery-data/

From Fuller's interview with Herc:

 

But Picard was FRENCH!!!

 

And Pike was American. What's your point?

 

Ok, would have been neat for it to have been that character but still a nice callout.

 

Casting announcements in October when they're filming in September?

 

You said "number one" was an address common among British persons, so how is that relevant to Picard who isn't one?

 

They were two separate points. The real-world fact is that "Number One" is a British naval term for a first officer. Most likely Roddenberry picked it up from the Horatio Hornblower novels that were part of his inspiration for Star Trek, and had Pike use it to address his first officer in the original pilot. For some reason, he discontinued this practice in the series proper, but then two decades later he decided to resurrect it for TNG. The nationality of Picard or Patrick Stewart is irrelevant, because it was Gene Roddenberry who chose to have Pike and Picard use the term.

 

But neither Sisko nor Janeway ever use that term.

 

Roddenberry didn't create Sisko or Janeway.

 

You have to admit that it's hard to argue a rule when the exceptions are in greater numbers than the items adhering to the rule.

 

No one is arguing a rule. They're explaining a choice.

 

Well, to me "number one" and "make it so" have always been specific of Picard and no one else, in the ST world that is.

 

Number One: "Sir, your erratic behavior has put the crew and our mission at risk. You are relieved of command, Captain Garth"
Garth: Loooord Garth!
Number One: Yeah, that's part of the reason you're being relieved. Security, escort "lord" Garth to the bin.