USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

[Jinn]

I’ll take a flimsy in-universe explanation any day I just don’t like being told “it is like it is because we say it is” in a very ipse dixit manner... since we live in a world where in-universe changes have explicitly been addressed - c.f. Augment virus - i’d just prefer a flimsy explanation given to us by the characters rather than the producers.

Oh yeah, I agree. I'd sure have a good laugh if the end of the show would just be William Shatner (returned from the Nexus) reading historical information from a padd explaining all the continuinty screw ups in the most flimsy possible manner. I'd say that's unlikely to happen, but on the other hand "These Are the Voyages" happened...

In the 23rd century the starfleet quartermasters and corps of engineers deadline days were always Tuesdays. The rest of the fleet sympathetically aligned their schedules to match. Thus, every interesting event that happened between jan 1 2200 and dec 31 2299 happened on literally any other day of the week except Tuesdays.

On Tuesdays everything ran like clockwork.

And that don’t make for good tv.

Oh dear, I think I have to take this into consideration for my timeline!

 

[UssGlenn]

And yet - the TWoK uniforms are even more of a departure

Not if you take off the jacket. Then you are left with a color coded long sleeve pullover and black pants. Sound familiar? All that's missing is the TOS version of the Cage landing party jacket to tie everything together.

 

[TrickyDickie]

Not if you take off the jacket. Then you are left with a color coded long sleeve pullover and black pants.

Makes me wonder why they changed Scotty's pullover to white, from gold, when he was wearing his sleeveless black vest....

 

[DaveyNY]

Wasn't he promoted to a Captain by then?
I seem to remember somebody calling him Captain Scott.

 

[Groppler Zorn]

Not if you take off the jacket. Then you are left with a color coded long sleeve pullover and black pants. Sound familiar? All that's missing is the TOS version of the Cage landing party jacket to tie everything together.

Dang that’s a good point !

 

[BillJ]

Wasn't he promoted to a Captain by then?
I seem to remember somebody calling him Captain Scott.

I have no clue. At the end of The Voyage Home, he is wearing commander's bars.

 

[Groppler Zorn]

I have no clue. At the end of The Voyage Home, he is wearing commander's bars.

I always thought he was captain of engineering on the Excelsior and at the end of TVH he was no longer in that post, probably having been removed from it as a result of being the one responsible for sabotaging that ship.

We all know Star Trek V was a dream so none of that counts.

But it’s weird that in Trek VI he has a white shirt on. Even if his captaincy was never revoked, does that mean that Scotty transferred to the command branch when he was made captain?

Come to think of it, doesn’t he have a gold shirt and captains bars at the start of TVH?
(Edit: I checked and no, no he doesn’t).

(Further edit: MAYBE there was only a white shirt available during the 3 months on Vulcan so he had to borrow one of Kirk’s and when asked if he wanted it back, Kirk was like “keep it...” but then Scotty was like “aye lad, this is the look fer me” and he never changed that shirt).

If that makes sense, the changes to the Enterprise is DSC are easy to explain.

 

[Longinus]

I have no clue. At the end of The Voyage Home, he is wearing commander's bars.

His rank is unclear due costuming errors. He keeps alternating between captain and commander. But regardless of his rank, he should have had yellow shirt as a chief engineer.

 

[BillJ]

If that makes sense, the changes to the Enterprise is DSC are easy to explain.

Well, no. You have a costuming error (which as much as we hate it, happens) and direct visual changes that contradict what came before. I understand artistic license and wanting to put one's stamp on something to a degree. But, god, what happened on Discovery?

 

[TrickyDickie]

His rank is unclear due costuming errors. He keeps alternating between captain and commander. But regardless of his rank, he should have had yellow shirt as a chief engineer.

That was my thought as well.

Even if he was a captain within engineering, he should have the yellow shirt to designate engineering.

 

[BillJ]

What's up with the '1701' under Spock's cabin number in the pictures we see? Is that there so Spock doesn't forget what ship he is on?

 

[Groppler Zorn]

Well, no. You have a costuming error (which as much as we hate it, happens) and direct visual changes that contradict what came before. I understand artistic license and wanting to put one's stamp on something to a degree. But, god, what happened on Discovery?

Valeris’ undershirt in TUC. I’m still mad about that.

And I know what you mean about the Enterprise. I just keep trying to drop it into my posts so the thread doesn’t get locked for being too far off topic

Maybe DSC is all in Benny Russell’s mind? And it’s one of the fantastic stories and the discoprise was drawn by human Martok? It’s as good a theory as any I’ve read here

 

[Jadeb]

What's up with the '1701' under Spock's cabin number in the pictures we see? Is that there so Spock doesn't forget what ship he is on?

That's so you know it's definitely not a redressed set.

 

[Jinn]

What's up with the '1701' under Spock's cabin number in the pictures we see? Is that there so Spock doesn't forget what ship he is on?

Should the ship get blown up and only a door survives Starfleet can still determine which ship they lost!

 

[BillJ]

Should the ship get blown up and only a door survives Starfleet can still determine which ship they lost!

I guess in the TOS timeline they didn't care. Connies never came back anyways!

 

[Groppler Zorn]

Should the ship get blown up and only a door survives Starfleet can still determine which ship they lost!

We all know that starfleet officers will LEAP to the conclusion that the ship is destroyed based solely on having seen the registry number on the door floating in space.

[NCC-1701]*

*i figure if I mark my posts thusly people might start to think this thread is the Enterprise

 

[Jinn]

We all know that starfleet officers will LEAP to the conclusion that the ship is destroyed based solely on having seen the registry number on the door floating in space.

[NCC-1701]*

*i figure if I mark my posts thusly people might start to think this thread is the Enterprise

Yeah!

[0514]

Yes, I'm Captain Robau! I got a new hairstyle. And gender.

 

[Groppler Zorn]

Yeah!

[0514]

Yes, I'm Captain Robau! I got a new hairstyle. And gender.

“Shuttlepod one” was a great episode though

[NCC-638]
^ I'm craaaaaazy

 

[BillJ]

Yeah!

[0514]

Yes, I'm Captain Robau! I got a new hairstyle. And gender.

I just figure you are Captain Robau from another timeline.

 

[Jinn]

I just figure you are Captain Robau from another timeline.

If you look really close at that Parralel Lives arc in the IDW comics you can see me in the background!

“Shuttlepod one” was a great episode though

[NCC-638]
^ I'm craaaaaazy

[NCC-243]
That's 1701 divided by 7 I like it comfy!