Poll Do you consider Discovery to truly be in the Prime Timeline at this point?

Yup, no one in the Milky Way can use it without a flurry of superior beings breaking down the interdimensional doors to tell them to knock it off.

 

Get ready for the big red reset button!

 

I don't think we've seen anything yet to suggest that there is an Enterprise bridge.

There were some behind-the-scenes images of something identified as a "Section 31 lab" or headquarters that I think people mistook for another bridge set.

Judging from the trailer, the first episode of season two involves the Enterprise dropping Pike off at Discovery and then going on about her own missions - presumably on the premise that Discovery is faster or better equipped/staffed or just has a less booked-up mission schedule than the Enterprise - after Michael pays a brief visit to Spock's personal quarters.

And that's it.

 

Why do you think the anomalies are red?

When you finally prove yourself worthy, they read "boop to reboot".

 

You make sense. But I could swear someone connected with the show said they were building the Enterprise bridge.

 

That's kind of a point. Other than the corridor (which is a repainted DSC one) and Spock's quarters which from the trailer we now know is the room with the window she walks into, I don't remember any significant set construction...

And another thing. Spocks quarters were always interesting in TOS and the movies, they were filled floor to ceiling with his stuff.

In this trailer, it's so much wasted space and none of his personal effects. Even the Kelvinverse had him carry a curious amount with him thinking he was going to die.

 

I saw a Vulcan lire and the bells from "Amok Time".

 

There's definitely some things scattered about, but I mean Spock took care to cover his living space with effects from his home or culture. It was one of the things that stood out about him over nearly everyone else.

It was a largely overlooked thing that just screamed emotional attachment that still isn't appreciated enough. Maybe he took a lot of it with him?

 

I'm thinking he had a yard sale before he left.

 

Ah, my bad.

 

That would be depressing.

In TOS, Spock was one of maybe two characters that had their quarters entirely decorated, it was being surronded by emotional meanings and significance for a Vulcan who kept trying to convince everyone he had none.

In continued into the movies where we saw a more scattered arrangement of them as the movies went on, until Undiscovered Country where he had done a clear out, decluttering personally and emotionally, leaving only what he needed.

When he thought he was going to die at Hobus over 100 years later, on a vital mission, he could not leave this world without the things that meant most to him, and passed them to his other self to keep safe.

Spocks attachment to his "stuff" has transcended 50+ years and 2-3 universes. Seeing an empty room is...not right.

 

Welcome to the Discovery era.

 

Or he took it with him? Or doesn't have all the stuff yet?

 

He is a Lieutenant. Maybe he isn't allowed as much stuff :P

 

Maybe...

I hope so, but then he takes some throws and cushions, maybe the odd wall hanging, but totally leaves terabytes of classified data and as Bill said, his Lyre, which was always his Sherlock Violin metaphor for helping him think in exactly this situation.

Almost like someone didn't research any of those facts.

 

Then why give him such huge quarters?

 

I wasn't being serious.

 

On Discovery?! Perish the thought. Honestly, their understanding of TOS seems to only be skin deep. It is odd Spock would have the koon-ut-kal-if-fee bells in his quarters, especially considering he's not went through Pon Farr at this point.

 

I hadn't even seen those. When Burnham said something about him being linked to the red spots, I thought about V'ger and Kolinar, that his research into them maybe "touches" something other wordly that allows him to 'hear' V'ger later.

But that's pretty wishful thinking.

 

I really hope not. Those kinds of explanations are never as well received as the writers think they will be. Sometimes it is better to leave some mystery in things.