Spoilers Season 3 character announcement

[arch101]

Kurtzman's quote of:

“And the fact that we will synchronize with canon by the end of this season, that means we may see shades of where we all know Pike will end up.”​

And I don't interpret synchronizing with canon to mean we're at TOS, just that we're more visibly on the way to TOS. I've seen a number of posters here who seem to think we'll actually BE at TOS next season because of this quote. I'm not gettin' that vibe.

 

[Cyrus]

The assumption that Discovery is taking place 10 years before TOS came from comments by creators Fuller & Kurtzman. It is possible that they have decided to change that. I know the date was mentioned in the first episode of Discovery. But I don’t think dates were mentioned in TOS, they cleverly stuck to stardates. So if they declare season 2 of Discovery takes place just before season 1 of TOS, is there anything on screen that would contradict that?

 

[Cyrus]

And I don't interpret synchronizing with canon to mean we're at TOS, just that we're more visibly on the way to TOS. I've seen a number of posters here who seem to think we'll actually BE at TOS next season because of this quote. I'm not gettin' that vibe.

Yeah, it probably means they all start wearing TOS style uniforms and everybody who needs to be on Enterprise goes back there.

 

[Noname Given]

The assumption that Discovery is taking place 10 years before TOS came from comments by creators Fuller & Kurtzman. It is possible that they have decided to change that. I know the date was mentioned in the first episode of Discovery. But I don’t think dates were mentioned in TOS, they cleverly stuck to stardates. So if they declare season 2 of Discovery takes place just before season 1 of TOS, is there anything on screen that would contradict that?

Since the TOS feature films - it's been canonized that TOS took place from 2266-2269 (300 years from the network airdates more or less); and further that TOS S1 - "Where No Man Has Gone Before was sometime in 2265.)

Also, S2 started right after the end of the Fed/Klingon war of S1 and that Discovery spent about 9 months in the MU - so that would place Season 2 in the 2257 - 2258 timeframe.

 

[WarpFactorZ]

Since the TOS feature films - it's been canonized that TOS took place from 2266-2269 (300 years from the network airdates more or less); and further that TOS S1 - "Where No Man Has Gone Before was sometime in 2265.)

Also, S2 started right after the end of the Fed/Klingon war of S1 and that Discovery spent about 9 months in the MU - so that would place Season 2 in the 2257 - 2258 timeframe.

Technically, the movies did not canonize this. The first actual reference to a calendar date of 2364 was in S1 of TNG (The Neutral Zone).

 

[Tim Thomason]

I'm pretty sure this is what we're going to see.

I got the feeling that the season is going to end with some kind of cliffhanger depositing Burnham in the future (10? 100? 1,000? years)

Discovery time slips ten years into the future, 2268, right outside of Deep Space K7 following Trouble with Tribbles:

Saru: "What happened? Where are we?"
Burnham: "I can't pinpoint the stardate, Captain, but it looks like we jumped into the future again. Ten years, according to astrometrics."
Saru: "2268? That can't be right. The station. That starship. They're way too primitive. Bryce, send them a holographic hail."
Bryce: "No response, Captain."
Saru: "I sense something has gone dangerously wrong. It must be Control. Somehow, it has manipulated the Federation into giving up its advanced technology."
Bryce: "The Enterprise is hailing, sir. It's Captain Kirk."
Saru: "Who?"

 

[Tim Thomason]

Technically, the movies did not canonize this. The first actual reference to a calendar date of 2364 was in S1 of TNG (The Neutral Zone).

The dates are blurry when TOS is concerned... but Voyager's "Q2" ep solidified the Okudachron's assumption of the TOS dates and places the five-year mission from 2265-2270.

 

[Tuskin38]

Are we going to see Number One again this season?

I believe someone from the production (might have even been Rebecca herself) said she was in more than one episode.

 

[Cyrus]

Discovery time slips ten years into the future, 2268, right outside of Deep Space K7 following Trouble with Tribbles:

Saru: "What happened? Where are we?"
Burnham: "I can't pinpoint the stardate, Captain, but it looks like we jumped into the future again. Ten years, according to astrometrics."
Saru: "2268? That can't be right. The station. That starship. They're way too primitive. Bryce, send them a holographic hail."
Bryce: "No response, Captain."
Saru: "I sense something has gone dangerously wrong. It must be Control. Somehow, it has manipulated the Federation into giving up its advanced technology."
Bryce: "The Enterprise is hailing, sir. It's Captain Kirk."
Saru: "Who?"

Cool. They may run into DS9 crew as well.

 

[SJGardner]

Cool. They may run into DS9 crew as well.

And in a continuation of the crossover of Trials and Tribble-Ations, they could detect something emitting a chroniton field aboard the Defiant, and infiltrate it so that they could use the Bajoran Orb of Time to get back into the 2250s. Complete with Burnham and Tilly edited into random DS9 scenes. Luckily, the entire DS9 main cast (sans Kira, if I remember correctly, and of course not counting those that weren't on the Defiant to begin with) is either aboard the Enterprise or the K7 station so they could even film any new Defiant scenes with the Discovery cast at their leisure. Insanely fanwanky, perhaps, but the thought experiment was, to steal Sisko's line, too much fun for me not to write up.

 

[Tim Thomason]

And in a continuation of the crossover of Trials and Tribble-Ations, they could detect something emitting a chroniton field aboard the Defiant, and infiltrate it so that they could use the Bajoran Orb of Time to get back into the 2250s. Complete with Burnham and Tilly edited into random DS9 scenes. Luckily, the entire DS9 main cast (sans Kira, if I remember correctly, and of course not counting those that weren't on the Defiant to begin with) is either aboard the Enterprise or the K7 station so they could even film any new Defiant scenes with the Discovery cast at their leisure. Insanely fanwanky, perhaps, but the thought experiment was, to steal Sisko's line, too much fun for me not to write up.

Time to call in Nana Visitor and prep the de-aging CGI. I imagine Kira doesn't want to let Sisko know that she just polluted the timeline.

 

[SJGardner]

Time to call in Nana Visitor and prep the de-aging CGI. I imagine Kira doesn't want to let Sisko know that she just polluted the timeline.

So that's why she was so courteous to Dulmur and Lucsly when they arrived... she wanted to keep them from learning that bit and let them just focus on the Enterprise encounter.

 

[Turtletrekker]

So that's why she was so courteous to Dulmur and Lucsly when they arrived... she wanted to keep them from learning that bit and let them just focus on the Enterprise encounter.

Well, that and the tribbles on the promenade...

 

[Rhodan]

I was really thinking how the time travel/future galaxy might be the story of season 3 and maybe even beyond that, but I´m not raising my hopes up.