Should TOS characters be seen or referred to?

[mattman8907]

I'm wondering which ST character will pop up in Discovery's pilot. TNG Had McCoy pop up in it's pilot, Jean-Luc Picard popped up in DS9's pilot, Quark i believe popped up in Voyager, and Zefram Cochrane made a cameo in Enterprise's pilot.

so any guesses?

 

[WB2]

I'm wondering which ST character will pop up in Discovery's pilot. TNG Had McCoy pop up in it's pilot, Jean-Luc Picard popped up in DS9's pilot, Quark i believe popped up in Voyager, and Zefram Cochrane made a cameo in Enterprise's pilot.

so any guesses?

Spock could definately pop up. Not sure what rank he would have had back then.

 

[mattman8907]

Spock could definately pop up. Not sure what rank he would have had back then.

Lieutenant. since this takes place a year after the first TOS pilot. "The Cage".

 

[Nerys Myk]

Fuller has mentioned he wants to use Amanda. So she might be the crossover character.

 

[mattman8907]

Fuller has mentioned he wants to use Amanda. So she might be the crossover character.

in what kind of role though?

 

[Nerys Myk]

in what kind of role though?

As the wife of the Vulcan ambassador?

 

[mattman8907]

As the wife of the Vulcan ambassador?

well other than that. LOL. I just meant plot wise.

 

[Nerys Myk]

well other than that. LOL. I just meant plot wise.

Dunno. We've no idea what the plot is. Maybe she's more than that at that time. <Insert Section 31 reference here>

 

[Tenacity]

in what kind of role though?

Civilian school teacher?

 

[jaime]

They should just go left field and achievable, and given her good relations with the Rodenberry family....
...Marina Sirtis as Deannas grandmother, another ambassador, good alongside Spocks mum, and they could probably get her to do the computer voice for bonus points. She's also guest starred in the last episode of enterprise, and an episode of Voyager...I think Ds9 is the only Trek she wasn't in, and Frakes has been in every series, so we need Grandpa Riker up in Alaska looking in the sky with a grizzly beard. 'Not letting my kids take up that careeer....hey is that Russia over there?'

 

[RJDiogenes]

It really should be an actor from Enterprise portraying their actual character. T'Pol and Phlox would be the likely choices. Although my personal preference would be a historical film of Archer's speech-- or one of his speeches.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Only if it's about Gazelles.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

I'm wondering which ST character will pop up in Discovery's pilot.

so any guesses?

Neelix!

 

[RJDiogenes]

Only if it's about Gazelles.

I'd buy a lifetime subscription to CBS Access if they did that.

Their lifetime, not mine....

 

[jaime]

Neelix!

Seven was nearly shoe horned into nemesis at the riker troi wedding.


Though they should go curve ball.

Tuvok or harry kims grandads. Both.

 

[Anduril]

It depends on the story obviously.

 

[zar]

I'm wondering which ST character will pop up in Discovery's pilot. TNG Had McCoy pop up in it's pilot, Jean-Luc Picard popped up in DS9's pilot, Quark i believe popped up in Voyager, and Zefram Cochrane made a cameo in Enterprise's pilot.

so any guesses?

Wesley Crusher could pop up (in a flash of light), say "whoops" and pop back out 2 seconds later.

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Q should appear and immediately say, "Now, Captain Kirk..."
Then the captain of Discovert would say, "I'm not James Kirk."
And Q would irritably reply, "Well you ALL look the same to me." And disappear.

 

[alpha_leonis]

If they show any TOS characters in Discovery, I'd hope they do some sort of archive footage rather than a full-on recast. A solution not unlike the "Farpoint history" scenes in TNG's "All Good Things". During one such scene, Picard had a subspace conversation with (archive footage of) young, beardless Riker.

Or perhaps use "Trials and Tribble-ations"-style special effects to have (say) a younger McCoy or Spock walking through a background scene.

 

[TREK_GOD_1]

Besides, weren't these characters supposed to be like Bond or Batman and there wasn't a problem endlessly recasting them?

Batman adaptations have no running continuity from one era and/or studio to another, so there's no cultural investment / importance of casting that matches something on the level of TOS.

With Bond, some recasting choices were so bad, few have anything to say about it--other than the fact a superior actor was replaced. To this day, many Bond fans issue a collective groan just mentioning "Roger Moore." On the other hand, its not a stretch to say Connery remains the most representative, iconic face of the filmed character--one all others are judged against. That's how powerful the Connery portrayal is in the popular culture. TOS actors are (arguably) more associated with the mere thought of TOS.