The idea of an Andorian raised by Vulcans would have been an interesting concept. Would have preferred that over Burnham.
Should there be a Captain Pike spin-off from DSC?
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There is an Andorian on the ship somewhere, he was mentioned in the first season.
The only Andorians I recall from Season 1 were in the Mirror Universe episode "The Wolf Inside." They were part of the resistance against the empire, not among the crew of the ISS Disco.
Dr. Culber mentioned having to assist on an Andorian tonsillectomy in one episode.
I like Burnham, but that is an interesting idea. Though I think having a character like that to be the front of a brand new show is a bit too inside baseball for non-Trek fans. It would require some knowledge of Enterprise where the Vulcan-Andorian conflict was prominent. Further, Enterprise didn't flesh out the Andorian culture/history enough (I wish they had incorporated the Andorian stuff from Trek Lit.) so there wouldn't be much for non-fans, or even fans, to grasp onto to see the differences and struggles that an Andorian raised by Vulcans might deal with. Arguably the Andorian would face prejudice on Vulcan, but so would a human, perhaps to a lesser extent, but they still would. Keeping the character human was easier and allowed for the audience to more easily identify with them. Though before Discovery premiered I thought that Burnham was half-Vulcan. I would have been fine if they made her half-Vulcan, just made her journey opposite to Spock's, like she was a half-Vulcan who was learning her Vulcan side or something to that effect.
We didn't see one, they were name dropped.
We saw them twice. In the mirror universe on that planet and in the penultimate episode of season 1 when StarFleet boarded the Discovery.
Scroll up and look at what post LizStargaryen was quoting.
We were talking about Andorian crew on Discovery herself. One was mentioned, but never seen.
There is still time. Who knows how many strays Sarek has collected?
Well, they went through the trouble of casting Number One, so it certainly seems possible...
Depends on if (and how) they answer WHY we never saw "Number One" later in the TOS TV or Film eras.
Well, the same question could be said about Terral, Cornwell, or any other high-ranking officer from the 2250s on why they never were seen in TOS TV or film. They were obviously off doing their own thing...Depends on if (and how) they answer WHY we never saw "Number One" later in the TOS TV or Film eras.
In fairness, there may be an answer to seeing Cornwell in TOS.
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I think Cartwright is the most obvious omission.
Oh, I expect him to pop up as Mirror Georgiou's right hand man in that new Section 31 show. CBS take note! (unless of course they run into those tedious film/tv rights issues again)
I see absolutely no reason to think they are the same character.
As for Terral: He's already an Admiral now, so it's unlikely he is Tuvok's father. In Tuvok's youth (during his time on the Excelsior), his father was serving aboard the Yorktown. That's all Tuvok says, that his father was serving aboard the ship. If it was Terral and he was using the Yorktown as his flagship, Tuvok would have said so.
I suppose Terral could be Tuvok's grandfather, but not father.
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I'm quite sure in the real world, we use "serving" as shorthand for service in the military, even if they are high ranking generals or admirals. I see in the news how generals/admirals "serve" all the time.
So Tuvok's father serving aboard the Yorktown doesn't preclude him from being Admiral Terral. That could just be shorthand way of saying that the Admiral was doing his military duties aboard the Yorktown.
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