Hand-over from past incarnation

[Trekkin]

How long do Denobulans live? The send-off should be Phlox at Starfleet Medical sending the new doctor to serve on Discovery.

Kor

More importantly:

How long do Talaxians live?

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Porthos or forget it.

Porthos randomly materializing on deck, perhaps?

 

[Kor]

Porthos randomly materializing on deck, perhaps?

...right when Admiral Archer happens to be there to give the crew their sendoff.

Kor

 

[Ronald Held]

Archer died after the commission of the 1701, according to IAM,D.

 

[tosapanic]

Got it: Guinan (Whoopie Goldberg) from TNG. She's been around forever.

 

[Space Coast]

Got it: Guinan (Whoopie Goldberg) from TNG. She's been around forever.

No.

 

[shapeshifter]

Greenwood or Tahir would be fine with me, but some might whine about the Kelvin connection.

[Worf] Might? [/Worf]

Of T'Pol being on Discovery, I don't see why general audiences would need to be told her connection to Enterprise. Just have her there doing whatever she is there to do and move on.

To anyone that knows her, great - *wink wink* - call back achieved. To anyone that doesn't know her it won't matter. This would be their introduction to her. If they ever someday see her in Enterprise, great - *wink wink* - call back achieved and if they never do, so what.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I'm sure Whoopi would be open to returning as Guinan, but I doubt it will actually happen. She worked as a TNG character because of her chemistry with Picard. It's unlikely Guinan would return for DSC unless there was a good reason.

(IIRC, there was going to be an ENT episode with Guinan, now a United Earth government official, but I think the cancellation of the series is what killed it.)

 

[m.lp.ql.m]

Rick Berman and Brannon Braga appear on screen as Klingons.

 

[CorporalClegg]

Rick Berman and Brannon Braga appear on screen as Klingons.

...with Michael Palin.

 

[Kor]

Archer died after the commission of the 1701, according to IAM,D.

Who/what's IAM,D?

Kor

 

[CorporalClegg]

Who/what's IAM,D?

Kor

William Adams and Darryl McDaniels love child?

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

In A Mirror, Darkly.

(specifically, the scene where MU Archer looks up his counterpart's records using the Defiant computer.)

 

[Kor]

Well... I'm sure nobody would notice. Fans are very forgiving about these little discrepancies, right??

Kor

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Well... I'm sure nobody would notice. Fans are very forgiving about these little discrepancies, right??

Kor

 

[Greg Cox]

So, yeah, given the above, I for one won't mind if they ditch the cameo handoff trope of Berman era Star Trek. YMMV.

That's kinda my attitude. That "tradition" belonged to a previous era of Trek shows made by a different creative team. No real reason DISCOVERY should feel obliged to continue it (and it's not as though an ENTERPRISE cameo is going to boost viewership), . . . but it's not something I'm going to lose sleep over either way.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Well, sure, DSC doesn't have to continue the tradition, but it wouldn't exactly hurt if they did. I don't see the harm in continuing it, anyway.

 

[Kor]

They should cram in as many cameos from past characters as possible, just for the sake of it. New viewers would think "Oh, that's just some elderly admiral," while we recognize him as Malcom Reed.

Kor

 

[Greg Cox]

Well, sure, DSC doesn't have to continue the tradition, but it wouldn't exactly hurt if they did. I don't see the harm in continuing it, anyway.

True, but I'm not sure I really see a benefit either.

And I'm kinda generally leery of the idea that DISCOVERY should do anything just because that's what the old shows did.

That was then and this is now and all that.

 

[Korusan]

Cameos are fine if they make sense (Reunification) but other than that why bother? If they do it as an anthology type series with new characters every season (like True Detective or American Horror Story) I'd be down for a new season of TNG or something. At least a short arc involving those characters if it's done right.