Discovery and the Captain's Table

[Ronald Held]

Maybe time for another volume with a half a dozen or more stories?

 

[JD]

Don’t forget Captain Farkas!

Ok, and the rest of the Project Full Circle captains too. It’d be interesting to see what they did with an O’Donnell story. And it’d be a nice way to maybe get a new story featuring Captain Eden, too.

Damn, I thought I was forgetting some captains, but I couldn't think who they were.

 

[Saul]

Lorca is definitely a Captain's table story. I can think of two...no, three Lorca stories that are worth telling.

Spoiler: *discovery show and discovery novel spoilers*

1. Mirror Lorca's arrival to the Prime Universe and the destruction of Prime Lorca's ship.

2. Prime Lorca in Prime Universe before he is switched.

3. Prime Lorca's survival and arrival in the mirror Universe, I believe one of the Discovery books hints at this.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Cornwell (although admittedly we don't know for sure wether she ever was a captain)

When we first see the bridge of the Enterprise on DSC, Cornwell is in command, so I can only assume she was once a starship captain.

 

[Leto_II]

When we first see the bridge of the Enterprise on DSC, Cornwell is in command, so I can only assume she was once a starship captain.

Wasn't it mentioned on the show that she was actually a psychiatrist prior to getting promoted to the Admiralty? She probably would've had to have passed certain Starfleet command-testing protocols prior to gaining promotion, though, similar to Troi.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Wasn't it mentioned on the show that she was actually a psychiatrist prior to getting promoted to the Admiralty?

Yeah but I don't see how this would necessarily preclude Cornwell also being a starship captain at one time.

There are flag officers who have never had any starship experience, but she's clearly not one of them.

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

We saw Captain Beverly Picard in the anti-time future, so there’s evidence that Starfleet doctors can become starship captains - even if that was something created by Q, Picard didn’t question it at any point, so it seems like standard policy among Starfleet.

 

[KRAD]

I don't recall all of them, but I think I remember the Titan story featuring the Riker/Troi honeymoon and the Gorkon story being about how Klag lost his arm.

No, Klag starts to tell the story about how he lost his arm, and everyone shouts him down because he always tells that story. Instead, he tells a couple of different stories about his family.

(The story of how Klag lost his arm was told in Robert Greenberger's "A Song Well Sung" in Tales of the Dominion War.)

 

[F. King Daniel]

When we first see the bridge of the Enterprise on DSC, Cornwell is in command, so I can only assume she was once a starship captain.

Commodore Stocker spent his entire career behind a desk, yet he sat in the captain's chair of the Enterprise in "The Deadly Years".

 

[Tirius]

No, Klag starts to tell the story about how he lost his arm, and everyone shouts him down because he always tells that story. Instead, he tells a couple of different stories about his family.

(The story of how Klag lost his arm was told in Robert Greenberger's "A Song Well Sung" in Tales of the Dominion War.)

It appears to be time for me to take both books off the shelf for a re-read. Thx for the correction, sir.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Commodore Stocker spent his entire career behind a desk, yet he sat in the captain's chair of the Enterprise in "The Deadly Years".

But he was clearly out of his element, and had no idea what to do. He wasn't even supposed to be there.

Cornwell, OTOH, clearly had command experience.