Spoilers So if Sarek knows...

[ITDUDE]

Picard: "Step 1: Enslave a poor sentient creature and drain itof power, and hurt it if it fights back"
Janeway: "Yes we already know about the Equinox.."
Picard: "Merde!"

Or....

Step 1: Here are instructions how to capture a tardigrade. If you capture a baby, throw it back. You need an adult one.
Step 2: Take a hypospray and extract some magic DNA
Step 3: Release the tardigrade.
Step 4: Stick that DNA into that Tom Paris character. He's supposed to be some hot shot pilot anyway, he'll be perfect for his. Also, his Admiral father approves
Step 5: See you at Poker next Tuesday

 

[XCV330]

Or....

Step 1: Here are instructions how to capture a tardigrade. If you capture a baby, throw it back. You need an adult one.
Step 2: Take a hypospray and extract some magic DNA
Step 3: Release the tardigrade.
Step 4: Stick that DNA into that Tom Paris character. He's supposed to be some hot shot pilot anyway, he'll be perfect for his. Also, his Admiral father approves
Step 5: See you at Poker next Tuesday

Picard: And find a space dock. You'll need to modify your ship so it has a circular saucer that rotates around its central axis. That shovelhead is soo passe. Convert someone's living quarters to grow spores in. Your Neelix fellow doesn't seem to need any room and if I were you I'd dump him before you return home. He won't find any 2 year olds to flirt with here.

 

[Yistaan]

Step 4: Stick that DNA into that Tom Paris character. He's supposed to be some hot shot pilot anyway, he'll be perfect for his. Also, his Admiral father approves

Really? The last time Paris messed around with experimental propulsion drives he turned into a lizard...

 

[ITDUDE]

Really? The last time Paris messed around with experimental propulsion drives he turned into a lizard...

Even better, he would be the first to sign up. "Some alien DNA? Without any noticeable side-effects? Sign me up!"

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

Really? The last time Paris messed around with experimental propulsion drives he turned into a lizard...

Even better, he would be the first to sign up. "Some alien DNA? Without any noticeable side-effects? Sign me up!"

Why does "The Amazing Spiderman" come to mind?

 

[Yistaan]

Why does "The Amazing Spiderman" come to mind?

Season 3 is just going to be a traditional superhero show with Stamets taking on the role of Tardigrade Man, with the rest of the Discovery crew as his assorted sidekicks. Other characters that feature are the Doctor (from Voyager, turned evil after centuries), a Soong android (unclear if this is B4, Data, or Lore), and the mysterious Future Guy from Enterprise. Star Trek will decide to just follow the modern superhero trend.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Season 3 is just going to be a traditional superhero show with Stamets taking on the role of Tardigrade Man, with the rest of the Discovery crew as his assorted sidekicks. Other characters that feature are the Doctor (from Voyager, turned evil after centuries), a Soong android (unclear if this is B4, Data, or Lore), and the mysterious Future Guy from Enterprise. Star Trek will decide to just follow the modern superhero trend.

You just had to make me go to Google didn't you? And I came up with this. Apparently, it's an actual thing (or maybe I just imagined it, what with the mushrooms and all).

 

[NewHeavensNewEarth]

You just had to make me go to Google didn't you? And I came up with this. Apparently, it's an actual thing (or maybe I just imagined it, what with the mushrooms and all).

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Is his crotch smiling or nuclear or both?

 

[SolarisOne]

You just had to make me go to Google didn't you? And I came up with this. Apparently, it's an actual thing (or maybe I just imagined it, what with the mushrooms and all).

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Who has the superpowers of being nigh-indestructible and instantaneous movement.

 

[Nerys Myk]

At the end of the season "canon" is served, we are told that the Discovery can never be spoken of again, under pain of death. But Sarek is diplomatically immune or something...

Thought is was more of "have to live your life in New Zealand" offense not a "pain of death one>

 

[NeoStar9]

Despite Discovery's season finale, I have to believe that Michael Burnham is somehow a minor historical figure that Picard is aware of, apart from the connection to Spock and Sarek.

This. Former disgraced Starfleet officer that helped end a Klingon War and had her rank restored. No reason at all to classify that. It's everything else that came afterward that would need to be covered up and officially she would be said to have been killed. Spock and crew don't talk about her and the others as to not draw unwanted attention to what happen because there would still be people around that might have knowledge of what Discovery really was and did.

That said I do like the idea that part of why Spock cries when melding with Picard is because he sees more of Sarek's memories of Michael. There are very few things that would cause that reaction in Spock and a vulcan in general. After seeing what their relationship was like and how they parted I could easily buy the feelings that would hit an elder Spock.

 

[Tuskin38]

Step 4: Stick that DNA into that Tom Paris character. He's supposed to be some hot shot pilot anyway, he'll be perfect for his.m

Against Federation law.

 

[Noname Given]

You just had to make me go to Google didn't you? And I came up with this. Apparently, it's an actual thing (or maybe I just imagined it, what with the mushrooms and all).

looking at the above, all that came to mind was:

"Tartigrade...TARtigrade...TARTIGADE HO!"

 

[Trinty4312]

Noname Given love the Thundercats reference

 

[Trinty4312]

remember he quit the federation because and I quote "the federation wasn't the federation anymore!"

 

[Lord Garth]

This is a borderline necro-thread. But I might as well say what I think: I'm assuming Discovery and the Spore Drive are still classified in the 24th Century. The lack of a Spore Drive applies to TNG, DS9, and VOY just as much as it does to TOS.

Now, if Discovery and the Spore Drive become declassified in 2399, that's different. Picard isn't a pre-existing series with no references to the ship or technology. But I don't think Discovery will be a factor in Picard at all, unless they ever plan some sort of crossover.

I take it as Picard knows about Michael Burnham and the events of DSC's first two seasons. And the Borg might've when he was Locutus for a hot minute. But once he was severed from the Collective, the Borg lost access to the information.

 

[Therin of Andor]

Is his crotch smiling or nuclear or both?

It's just pleased to see you.

 

[Ronald Held]

Do not thinK spore drive will be declassified during Picard.

 

[Mike Doyle]

remember he quit the federation because and I quote "the federation wasn't the federation anymore!"

I think that quote was about Starfleet not the Federation

 

[Timo]

This. Former disgraced Starfleet officer that helped end a Klingon War and had her rank restored. No reason at all to classify that. It's everything else that came afterward that would need to be covered up and officially she would be said to have been killed.

Really, everything that came before that would need to be covered up, too: the things that redeemed Burnham and allowed her to continue her career were also all borderline treason and risked destabilizing the known galaxy. So nobody would have learned exactly why Burnham no longer was despised by Starfleet; wouldn't be happy if they learned this was because Burnham had saved the Klingons from destruction by handing over a WMD to their leader; and would go apeshit if they learned of the spore drive or the Mirror Universe. In practice, Burnham would have "died" in infamy.

So it would make sense for the Sarek family not to bring up this one failed experiment of theirs, outside family spats. No special prompting needed.

That said I do like the idea that part of why Spock cries when melding with Picard is because he sees more of Sarek's memories of Michael. There are very few things that would cause that reaction in Spock and a vulcan in general. After seeing what their relationship was like and how they parted I could easily buy the feelings that would hit an elder Spock.

Or then it's just Picard infecting Spock with Bendii's and dooming the half-Vulcan to an early grave.

Timo Saloniemi