News Strange New Worlds casting/new characters

Yep. According to Dehner Spock and Mitchell served together for years.

 

My guess is that Kirk asked for Mitchell on his first command, but didn't get him, as Pike had more clout. So Mitchell and Spock had been working for Pike on Enterprise for some years before Kirk came in as the new captain.

 

You...know you're watching Star Trek, yes?

They could also have some really non-humanoid Federation members included, but at this point most of the ones that come to mind (Horta, Phylosians, Exocomps) have yet to be encountered in-universe. Maybe a Medusan? Did they ever say when the S'ti'ach joined?

Plus if they dive into that run it gives them another alien character.

I'm a TOS fan and I like aliens...

#notmyColt

There's a novel in which we learn that the computer has that voice because Una and Spock programmed it and she just used her voice for the interface and it just gets carried over to other ships in future updates, so that may not have happened yet..

 

Wouldn't mind a Gary Mitchell character coming in and take the navigator position, with maybe a part time science/communications like Checkov did?
Thats a character that didn't have much character development, maybe be used as the "Space Hunk" like Kirk, Riker, Trip was?

 

I kind of like the idea as long as we get Colt too.

And, no, I don't think the spikey alien is Colt.

 

It'd be neat if Kirk and Spock met over a game of chess.

What if Pike's Enterprise and Decker's Constellation are first responders after Kirk's Farragut is beset upon by Orion pirates after the attack of the cloud thing that kills Garrovick and most of the crew?

The much-reduced crew of the Farragut sends out a distress call during the attack. Pike and Decker respond, expecting the worst, only to find the Farragut relatively intact, holding off three pirate ships, and commanded by the most senior surviving officer, Jim Kirk.

After scaring off the Orions, Pike brings the remaining crew aboard the Enterprise, Pike and Decker are super-impressed with how well Lt. Kirk handled himself during both crises, although Kirk himself is still in shock over the events and doubting his actions with the cloud thing. Kirk matter-of-factly describes several brilliant maneuvers in holding off the pirates with such a diminished crew (thus establishing Kirk's abilities), as well as his calculated risk that rescue ships would arrive in time.

Other stuff happens, but at some point Kirk finds himself entering a rec-room where Spock is playing chess against the computer. Kirk asks if he can join him for a game, Spock offers fair warning about how good at chess he is, Kirk accepts, and then promptly beats him while they have a conversation during the match (we all know that Kirk illogically always beats Spock at chess). Instead of getting angry, which Vulcans don't do anyway, Spock is intrigued and he and Kirk start hitting it off.

By doing something like this, it better explains how Spock can handle the transition from Pike to Kirk some years later.

Other stuff happens in the episode. I'd like to see a hint of recklessness in Decker that foreshadows his fate in The Doomsday Machine. Maybe Decker goes off to engage the Orions, but it's a touch more luck than tactical skill that carries the day.

And the episode ends in a fun "did-they-or-didn't-they?" thing between Kirk and Number One that raises a couple eyebrows on the bridge, while that upbeat end-of-a-TOS episode music plays.

Don't have it all worked out, I'm not a writer, but that would make for a good sole appearance by Kirk in maybe a 2-parter that would be re-watched 100 times over by fans.

 

Since the Farragut incident would have happened between Disco's first two seasons, I don't think we'll be seeing it on SNW.

 

There's nothing stopping the from starting the series before Discovery started. They already did a Short Trek like that.

 

I thought it's already confirmed SNW is set after Disco season 2?

 

Um... The fan-fic board is over there.

 

Kirk did specify that the incident occurred "eleven years ago" in Obsession, but the TOS timeline is so nebulous that it could probably be placed comfortably in 2258 with an assumption of rounding on Kirk's end.

 

Kirk doesn't meet Pike until Kirk takes over command of the Enterprise. So even if Pike responds to the Farragut disaster, he won't meet Kirk at that time.

Although, we also know that the Farragut's XO recorded commendations for Kirk in the official log, so Pike may - indirectly - hear about those.

Why do people keep saying that? It's not as if the spiked alien is ever CALLED Colt.

 

Because being nitpicky and angry is how Star Trek fans roll.

 

Then again, Colt from TOS is never called that, either. So technically, they're both wrong!

 

Yeoman S. F. Drives.

 

Also she's red not blue.

 

The spiked alien was credited as "Yeoman Colt". She's the only character, in all of Star Trek, credited as Colt. She has a much stronger case of being Colt than Laurel Goodwin's unnamed character from The Cage does.

 

TOS S2 'Obsession" technically took place in 2267. 11 years earlier from that would make it 2256.