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Familiar faces crossing over

I could live without seeing any established characters cropping up. Sarek and Amanda already feel shoehorned in, and there was no need for Mudd to be on the Klingon ship at all.

Let Discovery be it's own thing. I was on the fence about it for the first few episodes, but it's really starting to draw me in now. I want to see what happens to this ship and crew, not waste screen time on characters from 50 years ago.

As for Cornwell being Lethe from Dagger of the Mind, I'm not buying it. For one thing, Cornwell appears older in 2256 than Lethe does 10 years later. Lethe describes her pre-neural neutralizer self as "malignant, hateful", which doesn't describe Cornwell at all. It's more likely the inspiration for the naming of the episode just was the same as that of the naming of the character.
 
ItIsGreen said:
Lethe describes her pre-neural neutralizer self as "malignant, hateful", which doesn't describe Cornwell at all.
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It doesn’t describe
Cornwell before her capture and subsequent torture at the hands of the Klingons. After years of abuse you can get malignant and hateful against your tormentors.
I’m not sure that the fan rumor is true either but that part fits.
 
I believe one of the people on the show that no more major characters from TOS will show up, at least for season 1

Though that doesn't preclude minor characters.

I wonder if Kor will show up eventually, or be named dropped. Kol is the leader of the House of Kor after all.
 
Lethe isn't Cornwell. That would be absurd. She was a young woman in TOS, and that's still a decade away.

Meanwhile Cornwell looks like she's 60 in STD.
 
You want to see Sybok? When he appeared in the original film, the fans cried foul; they felt Paramount had betrayed them by introducing a character related to Spock where there had been no inkling of prior. Sybok was about as much Vulcan as my cement patio is. I hated the character. As for Mudd, several friends felt he was too old to be in Discovery. I felt otherwise. In TOS, Mudd appeared to be 40-50 while in Discovery, he appeared to be about 40. As an independent businessman/trader, he would have reason to be anywhere in space dealing with any civilization and on any trade route, even if that meant dealing with shady characters, (which was his forte anyway).
 
If we go with, Sybok was banished while Michael and Spock were young, or at the most teenagers, than he is someone they just don't talk about. He doesn't exist as far an anyone from Vulcan is concerned.
 
Danlav05 said:
I think the production team said that once Season 1 was out of the way, familiar faces could be appearing in Discovery.

We have Sarek, Amanda and Mudd all recast. This show is set a decade before TOS so may others need recasting or actors from the Kelvin Timeline? Quinto, Cho & Urban still do TV (compared to Pegg, Pine and Saldana who are mainly doing blockbuster movies exclusively now) so having him as Spock could pull people in. Ore we could have Enterpise folk in heavy makeup to play their older selves?

Also there is the possibility of a time travel story, and recasting people as ancestors.
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I hear Wil Wheaton is available.
 
I'm a little embarrassed none of us picked the obvious candidate.
 
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David cgc said:
I'm a little embarrassed none of us picked the obvious candidate.[/url]
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I'm peeved that she wasn't yelling "Harcourt!!!" as she beamed aboard.
 
It's a big fleet. I dont think we should see too many TOS characters.
However, seeing a younger Lt Bateson would be fun, or maybe something about Commander Terrell.
 
Turtletrekker said:
So what? If they are going to explore Sarek as much as they seem to be going to, then Sybok needs to be addressed. and ST5 is as canon as anything else. Michael must certainly be aware of Sybok.
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I'm inclined to agree. STAR TREK V is far and away my least-favorite Trek movie, but if we're going to be probing deeply into Sarek and his dysfunctional family history, you kinda have to deal with the black-sheep elder son at some point. Which could be interesting.

There's nothing particularly wrong with Sybok as a concept. He just had the bad luck to appear in a terrible movie. :)
 
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