Casting Pike's Number One

[Mudd]

Well Gene's original setup was a much flatter rank structure where everyone was a similarly qualified astronaut and an officer but you had a Captain, and a few lieutenants about. The closer match to the USN structure didn't appear until later. Consider it part of early installment weirdness, like laser pistols and gooseneck viewers.

Maybe Pike was a Commander, anyway.

Kate McKinnon could play Number One.

 

[Succubint]

Paget Brewster is still my top pick. She'd be great at playing a competent, aloof, cerebral Number One. She's also pretty funny. (Like I could imagine her scenes with Tilly would be golden)

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[Jayson1]

Paget Brewster is still my top pick. She'd be great at playing a competent, aloof, cerebral Number One. She's also pretty funny. (Like I could imagine her scenes with Tilly would be golden)

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I like this choice even better than my choices.

Jason

 

[dahj]

Stephanie Beatriz


Make it happen.

 

[johnnybear]

Whomever they cast we can't argue because it could be said that the Majel Barrett Number One could have left the ship between The Cage and DSC but it's the Nimoy Spock I'm worrying about!
JB

 

[Uhura's Song]

Number One seems a lot like Burnham, personality wise. Detached, logical.

Anyway, S2 should be fun. Cannot wait.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Chakotay was like an emergency First Officer... but even so he replaced Cavit ,who was also a Lieutenant Commander.

Voyager was a much smaller ship, and even if the E isn't 1.3 miles long in this show, it is more of a front line, super important ship. It's XO must be a commander.

 

[LA Conservative Trump Fan]

I would love to see 34 year old 5'11" Adrianne Palicki play Number One but she already plays a Commander on The Orville.

 

[The Wormhole]

You know what I never understood. Riker was a full commander and a first officer but when Chockatay became first offer he was only a Lt. Commander. I'm not even sure what rank most first officers are even suppose to be in the 24th century. Is it full commander or Lt. Commander and Riker was only special since he was on the Flagship.

Jason

Riker was XO of a crew of 1000, Chakotay XO of a crew of 150, so of course they'd be different ranks. Really, Janeway should have been a Commander with a crew that size, but of course the very idea someone lower than a Captain could command a ship could only be remembered when Dax took command of the Defiant.

 

[Tuskin38]

but of course the very idea someone lower than a Captain could command a ship could only be remembered when Dax took command of the Defiant.

And Sisko.

Remember, he was a Commander for the first 3 seasons (promoted in the season finale of 3), which includes episodes with the Defiant.

 

[Greg Cox]

How about Alice Krieg. Give her role outside off the Borg. I wouldn't even mind another ex-Borg Queen in Sussana Thompson.

Jason

Thompson has been good on TIMELESS recently.

 

[Tenacity]

Kate McKinnon could play Number One.

like Burnham, personality wise

Wise?

Adrianne Palicki play Number One

Number one of the Orville being number one of the Enterprise?

Yes yes yes yes.

 

[Refuge]

Whomever they cast we can't argue because it could be said that the Majel Barrett Number One could have left the ship between The Cage and DSC but it's the Nimoy Spock I'm worrying about!
JB

I thought the original Number One was bland. If they dare stuff up Spock though...

 

[LA Conservative Trump Fan]

I thought the original Number One was bland. If they dare stuff up Spock though...

The original Number One I think was to be a person of struggle to make it in a mans world if the series was picked up.

 

[johnnybear]

With the technology available today they could easily show the crew from the Cage in the new DSC uniforms from a distance! But if they change the actors or characters then that just proves it's another reality to me!
JB

 

[Mudd]

The original Number One I think was to be a person of struggle to make it in a mans world if the series was picked up.

Not at all.

 

[Tuskin38]

With the technology available today they could easily show the crew from the Cage in the new DSC uniforms from a distance!

Not on a TV budget, and what about their voices?

But if they change the actors or characters then that just proves it's another reality to me!

Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home are in different realities then according to those guidelines.

I'm sure there are other examples.

 

[Kor]

Not on a TV budget, and what about their voices?



Wrath of Khan, The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home are in different realities then according to those guidelines.

I'm sure there are other examples.

Tora Ziyal on DS9.

Kor

 

[Tuskin38]

Tora Ziyal on DS9.

Kor

How could I forget that most obvious example.

 

[Nerys Myk]

With the technology available today they could easily show the crew from the Cage in the new DSC uniforms from a distance! But if they change the actors or characters then that just proves it's another reality to me!
JB

That's not how it works. If it was, then the Search for Spock is a different reality than TWOK and DS9 shifted reality numerous times.