20th century trek cast cameos

[O'Dib]

I just realized the other night that the far future setting allows for stars from several eras in the first 40 years of trek to appear on the show together through either a single sci-fi trope or a myriad. With the lower decks self-referential approach getting praise, going all in could be a winner.

Is another entire crew we're familiar with flung into the same era as disco along with their ship? Is the Sisko around? Anyone been cryoed? Has Kirk been full on resurrected for years on end through the centuries by a "god" who had him meddle in various galactic wars, thus explaining his accumulated age? That's the one actor I'm sure we'd all like to see get another chance at handing off the baton to some of the captains he inspired.

 

[XCV330]

it seemed pretty clear they tried to close off a lot of those options to themselves by making certain rules the powers apparently abide by since the temporal wars. I don't think Future Guy will put in an appearance. Flint could have always lied or found another beneficial planet and still be kicking around, but I doubt audiences would be interested in him.

Prime Lorca is an interesting counterpoint. He's not originally from the Mirror Universe so he technically could travel to the future back to his original timeline without getting ripped to pieces. I think. If they wanted to do that and Isaacs was interested.

I don't think they'll ever get Brooks back to play Sisko. And if they did, dumping him 1000 years after the family his character promised to return to had died doesn't sound like a direction he'd be interested in going.

one character, obviously played by a different actor, that could show up might be Will Decker/Ilia/V'ger. Again, doubt they'd do that, though.

my best guess if they did bring back anyone, it would be Mudd. There's always room for Mudd.

 

[FederationHistorian]

The only safe bet is the Doctor from “Living Witness”.

I imagine that Sisko’s house on Bajor would be a protected heritage site and that’s the only reference we’ll get about him on Discovery. Similarly, I don’t expect to see Quark or Kasidy Yates on the show; its more likely that their respective franchises are still going strong in the 32nd century. Even now on Earth, there are a few businesses that have been around for over 1000 years.

I don’t think Discovery needs Future Guy. Leave the ENT stuff to SNW or an ENT revival. The only reason to bring in Archer and the rest to Discovery is if a prequel to a show is in the works where he’s Federation President and he’s motivated to prevent the Burn future and the collapse of the Federation after his jump to the 32nd century.

There could be an appearance by Q junior, or female Q, since they can jump to anywhere in time and I don’t think they’d abide by the rules of no more time travel.

We could see Ducane captaining the USS Relativity 300 years later. Surely lifespans have been extended by the 32nd century, let alone by the 29th century.

There could also be an appearance by an older Miral Paris, or one of the various children in the series (Naomi Wildman, Molly O’Brien, Alexander Rozhenko, Jake Sisko, even Wesley Crusher), because they time travelled at some point post-2399 to the far future.

Theoretically, there could always be a future version of Weyoun around, due to the Temporal Wars.

Maybe even an appearance by Harry Kim, if he granted eternal life instead of a promotion.

 

[XCV330]

We could see Ducane captaining the USS Relativity 300 years later. Surely lifespans have been extended by the 32nd century, let alone by the 29th century.

considering the state of medical care in the 32nd century as shown so far, I would not bet on it.

 

[KennyB]

Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you SHOULD.............

 

[NCC-73515]

We could see Ducane captaining the USS Relativity 300 years later.

Ducane might...

Spoiler

...appear in PIC S2

 

[Paul755]

You could have just about anyone show up as some sort of hologram if the actor is up for it.

but realistically, Q,The Doctor and Ben Sisko would be about the only ones. Again, actor pending of course.

 

[XCV330]

Apollo

(yes I know STC already did it, and did it well)

 

[Tim Thomason]

You could have just about anyone show up as some sort of hologram if the actor is up for it.

but realistically, Q,The Doctor and Ben Sisko would be about the only ones. Again, actor pending of course.

Janeway too, in hologram form from Star Trek: Prodigy. Actor Pending.

Picard is supposed to be aging (and was already namedropped by the show as a past figure), but I don't know if that's necessarily true for the other synths. Soji Asha might be alive.

And we don't know anything about Medusan aging, so perhaps Zero is around.

Oh, and thinking of long-lived species... Guinan (as played by modern Whoopi Goldberg) would probably fit better in the Discovery era rather than the Picard era.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Odo (if recast, which wouldn't happen), Laas, the female changeling, or some other representative of the Great Link would be possibilities, theoretically.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I definitely don't see Q turning up.

He only does so when there's a captain he can needle. That wouldn't work with Burnham, she wouldn't want anything to do with him.

Plus Q would quickly get bored with Burnham's speechifying.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Okona might just be outrageous enough to have survived this long.

But seriously Pike could still be alive on Talos although I'm sure that they would call it a day as 1000 years is a long time. Some Ba'ku might be around but were they ever popular enough with fans for anyone to care.

There are the odd unlikely reference which have been alluded to already but I agree the Doctor or a Founder are the only realistic options.

 

[O'Dib]

Pike Burnham reunion would seem unlikely with his show yet to come.

 

[DaveyNY]

Daniels could still be time-hopping around the universe.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

How can Pike still be alive in 3190? He's only human.

Unless you're suggesting that the Talosians somehow downloaded him into a new body, but there's no evidence they can do anything like that.

And I don't think Pike would want a Talosian body.

 

[DaveyNY]

How can Pike still be alive in 3190? He's only human.

Unless you're suggesting that the Talosians somehow downloaded him into a new body, but there's no evidence they can do anything like that.

And I don't think Pike would want a Talosian body.

I could see a very convoluted story of Pike being switched out and brought to the future just as the accident happened.
Perhaps a future synth was left in his place.

(as I said, Very Convoluted)

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Naw, it's not gonna happen. Pike is strictly SNW from now on.

Besides, if they somehow managed to resurrect him, it would suck all of the drama out of his sacrifice. The fact that Pike knew his future, knew he was going to die...that's what makes it so poignant.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

How can Pike still be alive in 3190? He's only human.

Unless you're suggesting that the Talosians somehow downloaded him into a new body, but there's no evidence they can do anything like that.

And I don't think Pike would want a Talosian body.

We dont know just how powerful the Talosians were. Pikes consciousness could still be walking around in his imaginary not messed up body.

It wont happen though and it shouldnt

 

[DGCatAniSiri]

Or, it being 1000 years later, the ban on Talos IV could be lifted, allowing Michael to find a last message from Pike, who left it in the the hope that one day Discovery would find it.

Could be a nifty little throughline to SNW, anyway.

 

[TimeIsAPredator]

Or, it being 1000 years later, the ban on Talos IV could be lifted, allowing Michael to find a last message from Pike, who left it in the the hope that one day Discovery would find it.

Could be a nifty little throughline to SNW, anyway.

A message just for Burnham who wasn't even captain telling her how she was the one who made Pike the man he is