Should they have monkeys on Discovery?

[Jackson_Roykirk]

Do any of these count?

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

I understand this old chap is looking for work.

 

[Borgminister]

May an enraged ferret crawl up your pant leg.

 

[The Rock]

Is this just your random head canon, or is there some grounds in the actual shows (or heck, I'll even allow books or comics) for your reason for thinking this?

As for the monkey, no, please. But I wouldn't mind seeing an Alfa 177 dog, again. As someone's pet. NOT as a crewperson.

Just my own personal head canon lol.

 

[m.lp.ql.m]

How about a 11,000-mile wide single-celled organism as a pet?

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

A Sehlet would make a great shipboard pet.

 

[Captain of the USS Averof]

I'm pretty sure that Captain Kirk had a pet bunny (even though it was never seen or mentioned).

Is this just your random head canon, or is there some grounds in the actual shows (or heck, I'll even allow books or comics) for your reason for thinking this?

No, it's canon. Here it is, in fact:

 

[Philip Guyott]

I want Starfleet Dolphins like the Enterprise D had.
The USS Discovery looks like it has plenty of room inside.

Although I do question what a dolphin would need with a uniform?

As a pet, what is wrong with space dogs?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Although I do question what a dolphin would need with a uniform?

Just because there's an opportunity to explore more adult themes, that doesn't mean that the crew should prance around naked, FFS.

 

[fireproof78]

I want Starfleet Dolphins like the Enterprise D had.
The USS Discovery looks like it has plenty of room inside.

Although I do question what a dolphin would need with a uniform?

As a pet, what is wrong with space dogs?

Ah yes, the top three questions of Star Trek:

1. What does God need with a starship?
2. Why does Satan need a robot?
3. Why do dolphins need uniforms?

If there are going to be pets on board, what about a snake?

 

[Tenacity]

First Officer Burnham's younger bother Spritle is onboard, Spritle has a monkey named Chim-Chim.

When Burnham leaves the ship in a shuttle craft, Spritle and Chim-Chim often hide in the shuttle's "trunk."

 

[Philip Guyott]

The Captain should have this dog as his pet...

...and he should be called Chewy, just to annoy Star Wars fans.
The Captain: "Chewy, here boy. Sit! Fetch! Good boy!"

Or what about Dinosaurs? They have time travel in Star Trek so anything is possible. Or they could be from another world.

If there are going to be pets on board, what about a snake?

Snakes on a spaceship does sounds like a really good idea for a movie

 

[The Rock]

I want Starfleet Dolphins like the Enterprise D had.
The USS Discovery looks like it has plenty of room inside.

Although I do question what a dolphin would need with a uniform?

As a pet, what is wrong with space dogs?

Wait, there were dolphins on the Enterprise D?!

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Yup.

There were dolphins aboard the USS Enterprise-D. Geordi La Forge showed some of them to Par Lenor in 2368. (TNG: "The Perfect Mate")

The dolphins aboard the

Enterprise-D were originally to have been referenced in TNG: "Relics". In the first draft script of that outing, Geordi La Forge remarked to Montgomery Scott, "Wait until you see the dolphins." However, that statement, in the final draft of the script as well as the final edit of the installment, became, "Wait until you see the Holodeck." [1]

I guess they thought that as Scott had brought two big humpbacks (one pregnant) aboard the Bounty, seeing dolphins on the Enterprise-D wouldn't amaze him as much as the holodeck.

 

[Philip Guyott]

Wait, there were dolphins on the Enterprise D?!

Yes, references are made to them in a couple of episodes but they were never seen on screen as they did not have the budget for it. There is a mention of cetacean ops in 'Yesterdays Enterprise", a mention of an aquatics lab in "Genesis" and a direct reference to dolphins in the episode "The Perfect Mate".

The ship blueprints shows where they were located, decks 13 and 14 if I remember correctly.

Memory Alpha notes:

"The Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual gives further information about the cetaceans aboard Galaxy-class starships, stating they (a mixed group of Bottlenose dolphins and Takaya's whales) are actually crewmembers and form a guidance and navigation consultation team. These cetaceans are elite specialists in navigation, and Starfleet consults them on suggested system upgrades. The USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints also show several large cetacean tanks within the saucer section."

 

[Jayson1]

How do we know the dolphins on the TNG Enterprise were of the animal variety? What if they were, actually Dan Marino and Don Shula clones? I know cloning is supose to illegal in the 24th century but maybe they had been cloned by those alien minors also on the ship during "The Perfect Mate", which is the ep we first learn about them, and had been used to help the minors do manuel labor?

Jason

 

[F. King Daniel]

They should have furbies that have passed The Singularity.

 

[marlboro]

Totally deserved. People shouldn't hold monkeys as pets in a household. They are wild animals. Not domesticated over countless generations like dogs and cats.

Sure, they're wild animals today, but in Gene Roddenberry's future, monkeys have evolved past flinging feces at visiting Vulcan ambassadors. They still need to work a bit on not furiously masturbating in front of the Orions, but they're making progress damn it.

 

[Mad Jack Wolfe]

Snakes on a spaceship does sounds like a really good idea for a movie

Only if Samuel L. Jackson is cast as the lead!

 

[marlboro]

If Archer had been allowed to keep a herd of gazelles on board like he wanted to, Enterprise would still be on the air today.