Spoilers Strange New Worlds General Discussion Thread

Hey! You watch your language!

 

A throwaway line in Picard Season 2 will talk about how the synths have just left Talos IV and the operations to transfer Vina and Captain Pike into synth bodies was a success.

 

Beep. Beep.

 

I just saw the casting announcement for some of the crew, and Yeoman Colt is missing. If Yeoman Colt isn't on the show I'm taking my toys and going home.

 

Well they did turn her into a spiky alien in Discovery... Colt | Memory Alpha | Fandom

 

I'm sure those characters will be referenced or show up in guest spots at some point. Maybe even in a flashback scene. No way they keep Colt as a spikey alien though.

 

Come on, we all want to see Idris Elba and find out how Colt was forced to use Krall's tech on a hapless spiky alien to survive.

 

From the look of things, I'd say the chair was just barely keeping Pike alive.
It could be that the amount of Delta Radiation his body absorbed is continuing to degrade what's left of him.
That may be why Spock was in such an all fired up hurry to get Pike back to Talos IV.
Perhaps he only had a few more months to live and Spock wanted him to spend it with a lot more dignity rather than rotting away in that chair.

The Talosians may even be able to cure Pike in some manner.
Even though they lived underground, they obviously had a very advanced civilization.

 

I think I like the original Colt better.

 

The throw away line is:

"I miss Ensign Colt... She looked very professional in that red shirt before she beamed down...

 

Episode 6: Lieutenant Commander José Tyler steps onto the bridge for a reunion with Captain Pike, Number One and Spock and introduces his cousin Ash, who works for "a special branch of Starfleet R&D."

 

Would be funny if one of those characters announced gets killed off in the first episode

 

Cousin? His full name is Ashward José Tyler.

 

"Ash is instrumental in developing new shipboard technologies. He's at the forefront of helping make these ships stronger and more powerful!"

Pike(thinking): "Dammit. And he still owes me fifteen credits from that poker game on Emperor Georgiou's ship.

ASSHOLE."

 

How about all 3? Colt,Tyler and Boyce in a TMP style transporter accident in the opening scene. Then Pike is like. "Contact Starfleet. Inform them I need crew replacements. Preferably some with fan service qualifications."

 

I mean the new characters they revealed in the video. They kill that Noonien Singh character before they even address that surname.
People have been speculating online that she might be a descendant of his and have some abilities, which has lead to people saying she is going to be their Illara. She’ll be opening Pike’s pickle jars.

 

And now you have discovered why Section 31 arranged that little accident with the baffle plate on that Class J training vessel, and why, despite significantly more advanced 23rd century technology in existence ten years previously, Captain Pike was confined to the beep-beep chair.

Ash will go to great lengths to avoid paying a poker debt.

 

That sounds like Section 31 to me. They'll put a man in a wheelchair just to avoid shelling out.

 

You are all completely NUTS! I love it.

FYI, if you have not watched Hell On Wheels, do so. It's truly excellent.

I agree. It's the entire reason spin-offs exist.

Anyone who doesn't think Terry Farrell is sexy needs to be checked to see if they're still breathing.

All of these ^. I am really looking forward to seeing how the writers, and Anson, deal with this. Because this:

Pike is *not* a normal person. He's a Hero - and I mean that in the mythic sense. And that's why I want to watch him.

::Applause:: Damn fine simile ya got there.

Awesome discussion follows this, but I wanted to briefly address this. I used to work in our state's Rehabilitation Services department. Technology is one thing - and most people have no idea what kinds of amazing assisted tech exists now - but as @Tim Thomason and @cooleddie74 point out, there are (and probably will continue to be) limits based on what kinds of impairment(s) a person has. If you are interested, google "assistive technology". There's useful stuff available even for (relatively) minor issues related with ageing.

Carry on my wayward sons (and daughters and others)!