The Vulcan admiral kept saying "Starbase 46" in the recent episode and I screamed at the TV "JUST SAY 47!"
That one in the pilot episode immediately jumped out at me when I first watched it. I'm sure we'll see intentional ones like that from time to time as the guy that started it all now writes for Discovery.
I was having trouble finding one in "magic to make the sanest man go mad". I see a box near the space creature with "S-74" and an upsidedown "S-74" underneath it where you can connect the 4 and 7 diagonally then maybe that counts. On a holographic display of the space creature there's a ruler that goes up by 10's but stops at 400 (could have tried for "470" if it went higher). There's a map in the captain's room that I found a high resolution pic of but no 47 on that map.
What are you saying? They're all coincidences? Most of these in particular are, but Saru's line about the shields wasn't.
This is quite an intense search you are conducting. When you conclude your findings, can you conduct a new survey of everytime a character says "whole nother" or "irregardless" so we can point and laugh at the person responsible?
That's not a bad idea actually. Something like Data's "3333333" message in "Cause and Effect" but spread across history.
I think you'll find the numbers 4, 7, and 74 also belong to that sequence. And when Tilly said they were on #59, they would have had 74 to go. Now that I think about it, they probably had 47 to go at some point too!
There was some dialogue that said "There have only been 57 cases of near misses with starships in the last 10 years.". If you take 57 - 10 = 47. That may be reaching though. This one's alittle wild. I was looking at this scene to see if I could make out any of the numbers on the cargo containers Then I turned my attention to the blue lights. It turns out there's 47 visible blue lights when they did this shot. Then that one container with the 74 on it and an upside down 74 underneath.