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Poll USS Discovery after retrofit

Will Discovery still be recognizable after 32nd century retrofit?

  • Yes, no exterior changes at all

    Votes: 20 27.0%
  • Mostly, few doohickeys attached

    Votes: 25 33.8%
  • More or less, some recognizable elements will remain

    Votes: 25 33.8%
  • No, complete external makeover

    Votes: 4 5.4%

  • Total voters
    74
If word gets out that it's the same Discovery, Starfleet's rules against time travel would be called into question. Others might start getting the wrong ideas.

And you never know if Control might rear its ugly head again...
But why would people think the Discovery came there from time travel? As we have seen, there are many Disco ships around still.
 
To hide the fact that Discovery wasn't destroyed in 2258 like the official records would show?

Now, Starfleet gets to claim it's a different ship. Plausible deniability.

But then wouldn’t they have named it the Discovery-M or something, if they really wanted to fool people into thinking it was a more contemporary ship?
 
To hide the fact that Discovery wasn't destroyed in 2258 like the official records would show?

Now, Starfleet gets to claim it's a different ship. Plausible deniability.
Why stick an something as obvious as A. Could change the name to something completely different like Rocinante or something.

Obviously IRL they are not going to change the name of the ship/show
 
I wasn't expecting the A designation on the same "retrofitted" ship.

Calypso now has a continuity error right?
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One of the alternate futures Gabrielle has seen.
 
they did say a while back if they referenced calypso in season 3 it may not end the same way. Maybe all they are taking from calypso is zora.
 
In regards to Discovery now being NCC-1031-A. I don't think it has anything to do with keeping the ship's past a secret or to hide the fact she came from the past.

Starfleet always has had a certain level of arbitrariness with hull registries--the decision not to give the NCC-1701-A designation to the totally redesigned Enterprise in TMP, the decision to keep the NX-72405 registry for two consecutive USS Defiants, and for some supposedly newer ships to have lower registry numbers than older ships. That arbitrariness may not have changed in the 32rd-Century. This Starfleet may simply have amended Discovery's hull registry after her upgrade because they felt like doing so. The Starfleet of 900+ years ago may not have done so.
 
As long as it is explained, that's fine - but they set the expectation of Zora developing on board the ship - you'd have thought it would have been planned for.
I think it was always marketed as a possible future for Discovery, not the de facto one.
 
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