S3 theories/wishlist

[valkyrie013]

Hmm, maybe something like "the Great Burn" happened like in B5
Or more than likely, the "Destiny" storyline never happened, and we have the Borg all around the place.. ugh..

What I wish?
Lets see, Its been established that Daniels time lords bureau is in the 31st cent, 2 cents earlier, so we could see some type of "Time War" where the Galyfreans. err.. feds lost, or pyric victory and the galaxy goes in to a dark age.. and enter Disco..

 

[JoeZhang]

Or more than likely, the "Destiny" storyline never happened, and we have the Borg all around the place.. ugh..

I'll be amazed if anything beyond a couple of Easter Eggs and nods survives from the books after the Picard series airs - the idea that the Borg will be off the table because a showrunner says "you know what they were eliminated in a tie-in novel from over a decade ago" is pretty out there...

 

[SJGardner]

I thought of that failed animated series pitch from the 2000s again and I had the idea of the Discovery founding itself in a region of the Beta Quadrant that has all but destroyed itself in a war centuries ago, with huge swathes of space impassable by warp drives due to Omega molecule explosions, with lots of bickering polities fighting for resources and chokepoints, from trading hubs on millennia-old space stations (maybe something like the first drafts for DS9), to interplanetary leagues banding together for safety, scavengers fighting for whatever they can find among the wreckage of the battles, to the obligatory space pirates, and maybe one or two rumored big evils looming just over the horizon. And Discovery, with its strategically important spore drive, would be thrust into the middle of it all. They could end up building their own local version of the Federation from the chaos they find.

Wait, it just occured to me I've basically described an interstellar version of every Fallout game ever, with the Discovery as the Vault dwellers... whatever, I still like it. Especially if the big evil on the horizon turns out to be the V'Draysh.

 

[valkyrie013]

Thats why I wish they'd make a St Destiny storry and show it
Everyone's to old now, so probably have to make some cgi cartoon of it, but it would be glorious!

 

[seigezunt]

My prediction is that 95 percent of the "no prequels" crowd will hate the show for entirely new reasons. I admire the balls involved in this, but if the intent was truly to make fans happy, there's going to be a rude awakening.

That said, I hope against hope that the jaunt in the Magical Unrecognizable as Trek Future will be at most a season-long arc. A boy can dream.

Also, Captain Saru.

 

[XCV330]

If there's a season Arc, I'd like Michael Burnham not to be The Chosen One. It would be nice not to have a Chosen One at all. It's been done before. It's lazy writing. Stop it.

I'd like Stamets and Culber to go back to having a stable relationship. This also means he needs to get out of his coma.

I'd like a lot more Jett Reno. Can we just say she's the CoE now?

I'd like a vacation planet episode. haven't had one of those trips in awhile.

I imagine the Nickelodeon trek is most likely to adopt the old monster-of-the-week episodic format, since you can't really do story arcs in kids TV, except for that time Boots turned evil and teamed up with Swiper.

This Tomorrow People and Doctor Who watcher as a kid in the early 80's politely disagrees. I couldn't wait to see the next episode of those multiparters.

 

[SJGardner]

I'd mostly like the showrunners to give everybody in the main cast a character arc that actually reflects to how they're dealing with their whole lives being turned upside down, and not simply forget about them like they did with Stamets and Tilly whenever they had nothing spore drive-related to do.

Saru, for example, is the perfect candidate to explore how your personal actions shape history and eventually transcend into myth, if they decide to revisit Kaminar in the future.
As for Tilly, there's a natural character arc in the realization that she's only ever going to make captain if she manages to outlive Lieutenants Junior Grade Owosekun and Bryce and will have to find a new niche for herself. I can even imagine a mentor-apprentice relationship with Reno for her, with the latter's confident disdain for protocol being a natural connection point.
I also don't really think looking for her mom would serve as an adequate basis for an arc for Burnham. She will need to carve a path for herself not obstructed by the emotional baggage she brought from her family history.

 

[seigezunt]

Now that I think about the possibilities of visiting places we *know* but in the far future, I'm getting more comfortable with this.

 

[1001001]

Back to the 23rd by seasons end.

Okay I must be confused.

Didn't the final signal show up in the beta quadrant at the end? I took that to mean they had returned to the present day, just in the wrong place.

 

[Alan Roi]

Okay I must be confused.

Didn't the final signal show up in the beta quadrant at the end? I took that to mean they had returned to the present day, just in the wrong place.

Hard to say. When it comes to measuring space-time disturbances like this Federation sensors aren't really that accurate.

 

[cultcross]

I thought of that failed animated series pitch from the 2000s again and I had the idea of the Discovery founding itself in a region of the Beta Quadrant that has all but destroyed itself in a war centuries ago, with huge swathes of space impassable by warp drives due to Omega molecule explosions, with lots of bickering polities fighting for resources and chokepoints, from trading hubs on millennia-old space stations (maybe something like the first drafts for DS9), to interplanetary leagues banding together for safety, scavengers fighting for whatever they can find among the wreckage of the battles, to the obligatory space pirates, and maybe one or two rumored big evils looming just over the horizon. And Discovery, with its strategically important spore drive, would be thrust into the middle of it all. They could end up building their own local version of the Federation from the chaos they find.

Wait, it just occured to me I've basically described an interstellar version of every Fallout game ever, with the Discovery as the Vault dwellers... whatever, I still like it. Especially if the big evil on the horizon turns out to be the V'Draysh.

I'd mostly like the showrunners to give everybody in the main cast a character arc that actually reflects to how they're dealing with their whole lives being turned upside down, and not simply forget about them like they did with Stamets and Tilly whenever they had nothing spore drive-related to do.

Saru, for example, is the perfect candidate to explore how your personal actions shape history and eventually transcend into myth, if they decide to revisit Kaminar in the future.
As for Tilly, there's a natural character arc in the realization that she's only ever going to make captain if she manages to outlive Lieutenants Junior Grade Owosekun and Bryce and will have to find a new niche for herself. I can even imagine a mentor-apprentice relationship with Reno for her, with the latter's confident disdain for protocol being a natural connection point.
I also don't really think looking for her mom would serve as an adequate basis for an arc for Burnham. She will need to carve a path for herself not obstructed by the emotional baggage she brought from her family history.

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Okay I must be confused.

Didn't the final signal show up in the beta quadrant at the end? I took that to mean they had returned to the present day, just in the wrong place.

Burnham set the final signal to tell Spock she had arrived safely in the future, but that was done by the quick rebound jumps that Burnmom was using to try to attack Control/save Burnham, and Burnham herself used to set the other signals. So Burnham probably was, briefly, back in the 23rdC, but would have been pulled back.

Or something.

 

[1001001]

Burnham set the final signal to tell Spock she had arrived safely in the future, but that was done by the quick rebound jumps that Burnmom was using to try to attack Control/save Burnham, and Burnham herself used to set the other signals. So Burnham probably was, briefly, back in the 23rdC, but would have been pulled back.

Or something.

Of course. How obvious could it be???

 

[SJGardner]

Especially if the big evil on the horizon turns out to be the V'Draysh.

Imagine if the Discovery spent the season in the setting I've described, getting supplies, building alliances, solving the problems of the planets they encounter, all the while they're hearing rumors about this mysterious "V'draysh" from traders who were to the unknown reaches, how they're constantly conquering everything to find more resources to exploit and more worlds to colonize... and then, at the end of the final episode, the Discovery is there when the V'draysh fleet finally arrives to establish a beachhead in the region. The ships are of a completely unknown configuration, with weapons able to blow the Discovery out of the sky with a single shot, but they're detecting some weird markings on their sides. Saru orders the computer to magnify the lead ship, and we can finally see, in a very familiar font:

USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-R

Cue credits

 

[ITDUDE]

Imagine if the Discovery spent the season in the setting I've described, getting supplies, building alliances, solving the problems of the planets they encounter, all the while they're hearing rumors about this mysterious "V'draysh" from traders who were to the unknown reaches, how they're constantly conquering everything to find more resources to exploit and more worlds to colonize... and then, at the end of the final episode, the Discovery is there when the V'draysh fleet finally arrives to establish a beachhead in the region. The ships are of a completely unknown configuration, with weapons able to blow the Discovery out of the sky with a single shot, but they're detecting some weird markings on their sides. Saru orders the computer to magnify the lead ship, and we can finally see, in a very familiar font:

USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-R

Cue credits

This. Except with added caveat that it is ISS Enterprise! They were in MU the whole time and never knew it!

 

[SJGardner]

This. Except with added caveat that it is ISS Enterprise! They were in MU the whole time and never knew it!

And then they're hailed by a very much alive Lorca, who simply asks "Missed me?", without any explanation as to why he's there

 

[Alan Roi]

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Burnham set the final signal to tell Spock she had arrived safely in the future, but that was done by the quick rebound jumps that Burnmom was using to try to attack Control/save Burnham, and Burnham herself used to set the other signals. So Burnham probably was, briefly, back in the 23rdC, but would have been pulled back.

Or something.

She said she'd send a signal to let Spock know she was still alive. That's all we know. As such, mission accomplished.

 

[BillJ]

I hope there is some kind of science-related story (that isn't gibberish) to season three. Maybe some kind of virus ravaging our part of the galaxy. Just not more people fighting over non-sense reasons or looking for revenge.

 

[SolarisOne]

Imagine if the Discovery spent the season in the setting I've described, getting supplies, building alliances, solving the problems of the planets they encounter, all the while they're hearing rumors about this mysterious "V'draysh" from traders who were to the unknown reaches, how they're constantly conquering everything to find more resources to exploit and more worlds to colonize... and then, at the end of the final episode, the Discovery is there when the V'draysh fleet finally arrives to establish a beachhead in the region. The ships are of a completely unknown configuration, with weapons able to blow the Discovery out of the sky with a single shot, but they're detecting some weird markings on their sides. Saru orders the computer to magnify the lead ship, and we can finally see, in a very familiar font:

USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-R

Cue credits

I actually like this idea.

 

[FreddyE]

Outside of storylines, my wishlist is the same as it's been since Season 1 started: I want on-screen episode titles!

Less and less shows seems to have on-screen episode titles or even any episode titles at all.

 

[cultcross]

I hope there is some kind of science-related story (that isn't gibberish) to season three. Maybe some kind of virus ravaging our part of the galaxy. Just not more people fighting over non-sense reasons or looking for revenge.

I'd definitely like to see (in any modern Trek production actually) some problem solving that wasn't a bad guy. Viruses, natural disasters, spaceborn creatures, diplomacy, the famous go-to mysterious probe, a spatial anomaly in the Devron system, anything that doesn't turn out to be a moustache twirling villain. They've set up a cast of characters who are scientists, intellectuals and technical wizards, the last story type that makes sense is punchy-kicky-phasers-firing.