Question: Where is it explicitly said that Kirk took command immediately after Pike?

[Noname Given]

...But Pike here is seen taking command of the Discovery. Is that because he's Da Man; because he has Special Powers as the local S31 liaison officer; or because he has Special Powers inherent in anybody flying a Constitution in gold shirt? There's always the risk that we might actually learn the very thing soon enough.

Timo Saloniemi

I think it's more because:

- He's a top Starfleet Captain

- Discovery HAS no permanently Captain as yet (Remember they were on their way to pick said Captain up.)

- The seven Red Anomalies are spread out across 30,000 light years, and Discovery has a Spore Drive (IT also still works, it's just Starfleet forbade it's general use - although I'm sure for this 'emergency situation' they're allowing it's use again).
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So, IDK - but it makes sense if the above is accurate, Discovery is the 'fastest' ship bu virtue of its Spore Drive so Starfleet is sending their best Captain to take it and investigate/make first contact with whatever/whoever is generating these anomalies.

 

[Tuskin38]

None of the trailers have shown the spore drive in use. I doubt they will use it.

None of the S1 trailers showed the spore dive, but that makes more sense, as they were keeping it a secret, there's no reason to do that now.

Nothing says they're going to visit all those lights, they'll probably just visit the one closest to federation space.

The Enterprise might also be damaged in Episode 1. The recent BTS Vid had a screen saying all system were offline, and the trailers have shown inspection pods inspecting the ship.

 

[Noname Given]

None of the trailers have shown the spore drive in use. I doubt they will use it.

None of the S1 trailers showed the spore dive, but that makes more sense, as they were keeping it a secret, there's no reason to do that now.

Nothing says they're going to visit all those lights, they'll probably just visit the one closest to federation space.

The Enterprise might also be damaged in Episode 1. The recent BTS Vid had a screen saying all system were offline, and the trailers have shown inspection pods inspecting the ship.

Oh please. They've shown mane 5 minutes total out of a 14 episode season in the Trailers combined. To think they won't use it to get to the source of the anomalies. The Spore Drive is probably the ONE reason they wouldn't just use the Enterprise for this mission.

I also don't think the 1701 is disabled. The only thing they've shown is Burnham commenting that all 203 crew are alive. If anything, that's probably a sequence in which they're trying to figure out WHY the 1701 sent a distress signal because the ship seems fine.

In the end, that's probably going to just be a 'cover story' if it becomes known that the 1701 and 1031 rendezvoused. Star Fleet and Section 31 wants to keep this whole thing tightly under wraps.

 

[Tuskin38]

If they use the drive, I'll admit I'm wrong. But I don't think they will, not unless there is an extreme emergency where they need to escape somewhere, not just getting there.

 

[F. King Daniel]

DSC already mentioned April anyway (in Saru's list of the top 5 Starfleet captains).

That didn't tie him to the Enterprise any more than it did Georgiou, who was also on the list.

 

[F. King Daniel]

None of the trailers have shown the spore drive in use. I doubt they will use it.

We see them doing stuff in the spore chamber in the trailers.

And if the end of S1 brush-off really is the end of spore drive tech, it's a slap in the face.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

That didn't tie him to the Enterprise

Everybody knows April was the first captain of the Enterprise. This just confirmed it.

 

[Timo]

...All this display screen can do beyond that (if it indeed survives in unaltered form to the aired episodes) is establish that there were no other COs to NCC-1701 between April and Pike.

Which is a pity, really. In ST:TMP, Kirk seemed to think that his five-year mission into the unknown was a good reason to pick him over the thousands of veteran Captains itching for action on Earth that fateful day. If April already did one such sortie and Pike did two, are we to assume that everybody from that generation but Pike got slaughtered in Burnham's War and Kirk really had no peers?

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Tuskin38]

We see them doing stuff in the spore chamber in the trailers.

And if the end of S1 brush-off really is the end of spore drive tech, it's a slap in the face.

None of that means they’re using it to jump.

The admiral specifically had it shut down until they could use it without a human. But they could still find a way to use the tech for things other then jumping.

 

[DaveyNY]

We see them doing stuff in the spore chamber in the trailers.

And if the end of S1 brush-off really is the end of spore drive tech, it's a slap in the face.

I really don't understand why folks keep purposely sticking their faces out to get slapped at.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Everybody knows April was the first captain of the Enterprise. This just confirmed it.

I guess the next question is: when will we actually see April? I'm sure he'll show up at some point on Discovery.

 

[Kemaiku]

In that behind the scenes video, the display showing the Enterprise says all systems are offline. So perhaps the ship is badly damaged and required to go back for a refit/repair - and so the Discovery being nearby means Pike takes command of a captain-less vessel to continue his mission/his helping Spock.

Yet the ship warps in, hails them, beams people over and all the lights including all the engines are on and operating.

The display also has the shape of the ship rather wrong, I think Discoverys systems are the ones out of whack.

 

[F. King Daniel]

I guess the next question is: when will we actually see April? I'm sure he'll show up at some point on Discovery.

If we do, he's sure to be part of an elaborate Section 31 plot (an early version of Into Darkness featured April instead of Khan)

 

[WarpFactorZ]

If we do, he's sure to be part of an elaborate Section 31 plot (an early version of Into Darkness featured April instead of Khan)

Do you have a link for that? The prelude "Countdown" comics featured a rogue April (who was Marcus' commanding officer) violating the Prime Directive, but I've never heard about his actually being in STiD.

 

[DaveyNY]

I guess the next question is: when will we actually see April? I'm sure he'll show up at some point on Discovery.

We should start guessing who They will hire to play the role.

I'm thinking either John Lithgow, Craig T. Nelson, Michael Douglas, or Betty White.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Do you have a link for that? The prelude "Countdown" comics featured a rogue April (who was Marcus' commanding officer) violating the Prime Directive, but I've never heard about his actually being in STiD.

The big Klingon gun Khan uses on Kronos is called "April's big gun" in concept art. And Bob Orci said he wanted April as the villain, on his now-defunct twitter. There are references to it in this Reddit thread

 

[fireproof78]

We see them doing stuff in the spore chamber in the trailers.

And if the end of S1 brush-off really is the end of spore drive tech, it's a slap in the face.

To who?

Oh, look. Another technology that Starfleet discovers and then immediately forgets about because plot. How very Star Trek of them.

I am also highly doubtful that they won't use the spore drive.

 

[Tenacity]

If we do, he's sure to be part of an elaborate Section 31 plot (an early version of Into Darkness featured April instead of Khan)

Spock: " APPPPPPPRILLL !!!!!"

 

[F. King Daniel]

To who?

Captain Janeway. Ben Sisko.

Oh, look. Another technology that Starfleet discovers and then immediately forgets about because plot. How very Star Trek of them.
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This one is orders of magnitude greater than any before, though. Instant transit anywhere in the mutliverse and possibly through time as well.

 

[Dukhat]

Yeah, too bad Janeway knew nothing about the spore drive. Star Trek: Voyager would have just been a two-hour TV movie.