Event alluded to by Bryan Fuller.

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

That's not to say there couldn't be a crossover (a la mirror universe episodes).

Incidentally, the fact that people will be pleased to see this event expanded on could mean a) one of the obvious popular choices or b) that they`re glad it`s a particular event that gets airtime rather than another event.

Like if someone does not want to see Tarsus IV, they will be thrilled to see something else and not their pet hate.

 

[F. King Daniel]

How about the Enterprise's squabble at Rigel VII, which left many of the crew dead and Pike questioning his future in Starfleet?

 

[Laura Cynthia Chambers]

Yeah, he may not have been the only ship there. Or a ship which came before or after his. Ongoing tensions...

 

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

There is one statement about the series which gives me hope, and that it it's set in the prime universe not Abrams universe. I'll deal with the rest (maybe) later on, but the prime universe is what I'm interested in.

Agreed! I have zero interest in Abramstrek.

Regarding the Klingons appearing, while I agree that they've been overdone on Trek before, I have hope that we will see a different breed of Klingons. In fact, I find the TOS Klingons smarter and more cunning (Kor, Koloth, Gorkon, Chang) than the ones seen on the other shows. Perhaps it could be retconned as a consequence of the flathead affliction?

And since one of my all time Klingon favourites is Chang - he was truly a magnificent bastard - I'm hoping that the "Klingon Captain" Fuller mentioned will be a young Chang.

ETA: It wasn't Fuller that mentioned the Klingon Captain, it was a source to THR.

 

[locutus101]

What statement of Fuller are you people talking about?

 

[Kevin Thomas Riley]

What statement of Fuller are you people talking about?

Looking up my specific claim about the Klingon Captain, I stand corrected. It was a source that told THR about:
"Sources tell THR the rest of the cast also will feature an openly gay actor as one of the male leads (which Fuller confirmed), a female admiral, a male Klingon captain, a male admiral, a male adviser and a British male doctor."

 

[locutus101]

But there's ,nothing novel about a woman captain.

 

[OpenMaw]

Like they haven't done "you thought you knew what happened in history? you were wrong/lied to" episodes before.

Instead of a huge war, it could be a "Thirteen Days" ish event.

As my friends and I wanted to do about a decade ago with our Constellation fanfilm, do a "Cuban Missile Crisis In Space."

 

[CJCade]

when someone asked Fuller if it might be the Romulan War, he said, “close."

Not sure if this tidbit has been posted since I haven't kept up with this thread.

 

[SiddFinch1]

Still think and agree with the idea it is the vulcanian expedition. No information on what it was so wide open

 

[shapeshifter]

How about the Enterprise's squabble at Rigel VII, which left many of the crew dead and Pike questioning his future in Starfleet?

Do we even know the incident was mentioned in TOS? I think the statement is so vague, it could include any dozens of events mentioned in any Trek but never seen.

All this brouhaha trying to figure it out based on things said in TOS and it could be based on some line from Voyager. IIRC they talked a lot about past events.

Perhaps we'll find out at the next info dump in Oct but for now I just don't think we have enough info to warrant wasting too much energy considering.

 

[CJCade]

Fuller on the premise: “There’s an incident and an event in Star Trek history that’s been talked about but never been explored. To do this series, we’re telling a much more serialized story, to dig deep into a very tantalizing storyline. And we have a character who’s on a journey, and in order to understand something that is alien, she first has to understand herself.” The event is something that was referenced in the original series, but not the Romulan War (“close,” he says) or Section 31 (but that could play a role) or Kirk wrestling with the Kobayashi Maru test. It’s only been referenced, never seen, he said.

From the EW.com article.

 

[OpenMaw]

Yeah, since it is just limited to TOS, how many events can be limited to just those criteria? Ten years before TOS, only referenced, but not seen? That's only going to be a handful of things.

 

[Spider]

What statement of Fuller are you people talking about?

Yeah, since it is just limited to TOS, how many events can be limited to just those criteria? Ten years before TOS, only referenced, but not seen? That's only going to be a handful of things.

How many throw away comments were made in those three seasons? About Starfleet history, about future history, that were simply thrown in to support a plot or theme in one of their shows? This is a job for SuperFan. Watch every single episode of TOS noting ALL incidents, off hand comments, and other tib bits that we never actually saw.

I'm not SuperFan by the way.

 

[OpenMaw]

Okay, but even then. How many were "recent" history. Only a dozen or so come to mind that were within the ten to twenty year time span. Others were decades in the past if not centuries in the past.

And of those, just how many are truly going to have enough dramatic potential to help form the backbone of a new series? I can't honestly see that.

 

[Spider]

Okay, but even then. How many were "recent" history. Only a dozen or so come to mind that were within the ten to twenty year time span. Others were decades in the past if not centuries in the past.

And of those, just how many are truly going to have enough dramatic potential to help form the backbone of a new series? I can't honestly see that.

Thank you sir for volunteering to watch every single episode of TOS and report back with your findings. LOL

To be honest with you, I haven't seen a TOS episode in over a decade. Maybe two of those. This last week has me wanting to go back and watch a few of them now.

 

[shapeshifter]

From the EW.com article.

Thanks. I thought the tweets were all we had to go on. I went to EW.com but am missing something, cannot see what you are quoting from. Can you link me up, please?

 

[CJCade]

Thanks. I thought the tweets were all we had to go on. I went to EW.com but am missing something, cannot see what you are quoting from. Can you link me up, please?

http://www.ew.com/article/2016/08/10/star-trek-tv-series

 

[FredH]

You know, although I'm not counting on it, I wouldn't be shocked if the "mentioned but never seen" event turns out to be the historical equivalent of the Grand Corridor.

Remember the Grand Corridor? When Star trek: The Experience opened, it featured this section of the Enterprise-D which, as all the publicity and even crew like Herman Zimmerman kept saying, had been often mentioned on TNG but never shown. Now at last it could be seen!

Except of course that it had never, ever been mentioned on TNG -- it was entirely made up for The Experience, and they apparently hoped you wouldn't notice. (Anybody who's about to reply that you remember the Grand Corridor from the show: NO YOU DON'T.)

So maybe the new event that they totally referred to fifty years ago will simply be made up whole cloth? I won't care, if the result is a good show anyway.

 

[Greg Cox]

Maybe that whole issue that the diplomats were arguing about in "Journey to Babel"? We never did find out the results of that conference. Was the Cordian system admitted into the Federation after all? What did the Tellarites thinks about that? What about the Orions?

It's funny when you think about it. The issue is important enough that it provokes assassinations, suicide missions, angry arguments between the diplomats, but we never do find out the outcome of the debate.

Heck, maybe the "event' is the conference on Babel itself?