Will there be a female First Officer on board the Enterprise?
Bring back Number One!
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Hopefully attitudes have changed enough in the last 40 years so that we can actually have BOTH a female First Officer AND an alien AT THE SAME TIME OMG!
Whoa...slow down. I am not sure I am ready for that.
Well, maybe if the alien has normal ears. That would keep me from freaking out too much.
At least a passing reference would be a nice homage to Majel, be it Number One, Nurse Chapel or even a sample of the computer voice.
Wasn't Number One a member of Pike's Enterprise, not Kirk's?
Yes. But we'll be seeing Pike's Enterprise anyway. Even if we weren't going to, maybe she stayed into Kirk's command, or maybe there was another female XO after her.
Well, we probably will see a time period that includes Pike as Captain of the
Enterprise (we know Pike IS in this film)...
...However, it may be several years after The Cage, and his Number One from that time may have moved on -- or not.
EDIT: You beat me to it, Eric.
"Number One" didn't go because NBC wasn't forward-thinking enough - that was GR's story. No one liked the character, because no one liked the actress.
Good old scatological humor.
I think it's safe to say we won't see:
-- Number One
-- Dr. Boyce
-- Dr. Piper
-- Kelso
-- Tyler
-- Colt
-- Finnegan
-- Mitchell
-- Gill
-- any of Kirk's named love interests
But, we are getting Orion slave girls and tribbles. And, that's a damn good trade off, in my opinion.
EDITED TO ADD: We'll not see Captain April, either. Though perhaps it would be cool if we did, and Number One was his first officer. Would that be a retconn, violation of canon, or what?
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I'd like to see her in it - it's probably doubtful but who knows ?
^I doubt it too, and I think a lot will depend on just exactly what time-frame we're talking about here. We know that Spock served under Pike for 11 years and four months, about 13 years prior to the events of 'The Menagerie'.Number One was Pike's XO at that time, which most likely was around the beginning of Spock's service under Pike. I'm guessing that closer to the time of Kirk taking command, Pike most likely had a different First Officer.So, if the movie shows the Enterprise under Pike close to the time that Kirk takes command, then we most likely won't see Number One. I'm actually wondering if we'll see two different time-frames of the Pike era; one early one when Spock graduates from the Academy and is assigned to the Enterprise, and one much later, when Kirk is poised to take over.IMO, this has to be the way its done, because to believe that Kirk became a captain just out of the Academy is just plain silly, not to mention it would greatly contradict canon.
That is simply not possible. Everybody knows that TOS/TAS-era starships have no bathrooms.
Please say the tribbles are a joke. It's a major discontinuity if anybody encounters them prior to the timeframe of "The Trouble With Tribbles."
Not necessarily -- the crew does not need to even notice them...
...the tribbles could be in a cage on a vendor's table in some alien village "marketplace" that Kirk and McCoy happen to be walking through. They could be talking to each other and walk right past the tribble vendor without caring what they are or taking note of what the guy is selling.
I'm not saying a scene such as this should be in the film; I'm just saying it's not necessarily a continuity error.
^^ Or they simply could have forgotten about tribbles by the time of TTWT.
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