So - Which Incident?

[Dukhat]

My guess would be that the Treaty of Armens between the UFP and The Sheliak was signed in 2255 (TNG: "The Ensigns of Command")

And, to my knowledge, there still wasn't any "war" with the Sheliak. Nor still, does it have anything to do with Klingons.

 

[Timo]

Indeed, if those Sheliak are known for something, it's them being prepared for the least likely things through shelf-lightminutes of preemptively written legal jargon. That they'd make a treaty might be taken as solid proof that there never was conflict with them to spur such a treaty, then - instead, our heroes seem to believe that an actual conflict with the Sheliak would not be war but one-sided slaughter, and they clearly aren't veterans of that.

The "incident" thing apparently continues to rely on certain ill-founded assumptions:

1) That there'd be one, in what DSC eventually turned out to be about - that train might already have sailed to the sunset with Fuller.
2) That the incident affecting the 2250s would have taken place anytime close to the 2250s.
3) That the incident really was mentioned in TOS specifically, rather than being something merely relating to TOS and described ambiguously by Fuller.
4) That the incident was an incident marking a spot on the timeline and not, say, a character trait or a species description or whatever.

All those assumptions might still hold true, though. But as long as we don't know, we can't even tell if we already found out all about this incident in the first hour and half of DSC.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Indeed, if those Sheliak are known for something, it's them being prepared for the least likely things through shelf-lightminutes of preemptively written legal jargon. That they'd make a treaty might be taken as solid proof that there never was conflict with them to spur such a treaty, then - instead, our heroes seem to believe that an actual conflict with the Sheliak would not be war but one-sided slaughter, and they clearly aren't veterans of that.

The "incident" thing apparently continues to rely on certain ill-founded assumptions:

1) That there'd be one, in what DSC eventually turned out to be about - that train might already have sailed to the sunset with Fuller.
2) That the incident affecting the 2250s would have taken place anytime close to the 2250s.
3) That the incident really was mentioned in TOS specifically, rather than being something merely relating to TOS and described ambiguously by Fuller.
4) That the incident was an incident marking a spot on the timeline and not, say, a character trait or a species description or whatever.

All those assumptions might still hold true, though. But as long as we don't know, we can't even tell if we already found out all about this incident in the first hour and half of DSC.

Timo Saloniemi

I still think it was the reference to Donatu V, which T'Kuvma mentions in one of his rambles.

 

[BillJ]

Frankly not hearing a better candidate than Picard’s line.... fits pretty well with what we have seen.

But they said it was from TOS.

 

[Kemaiku]

And, to my knowledge, there still wasn't any "war" with the Sheliak. Nor still, does it have anything to do with Klingons.

There was a "skirmish" however.

http://memory-alpha.wikia.com/wiki/Federation-Sheliak_Conflict

Which with the Battle of Axanar (against...someone) would have Starfleet a little iffy towards other species at this point.

 

[Search4]

Of course the Klingons having a cloak was unexpected. Perhaps there is Romulan manipulation afoot? Hence the Balance of Terror references.

 

[mattyhugh]

In one of the early interviews Fuller stated that Balance of Terror episode, one of his favorites, would be "a touchstone" for the season's story arc.

Now obviously Discovery story arc has nothing to do with that episode. Maybe he just got the idea from watching that episode. The main spaceship of the series runs into a hostile species that have been absent for a while.

I always assumed Fuller meant the racism of Lt Styles combined with the fact that the episode does an excellent job of "humanizing" the Romulan commander.

Less evolved humans, looking at the anatagonist as a reflection of our protagonist etc.

Never assumed it was about Romulans specifically.