If they do an arc with Decker (like they're now doing with Pike), I have the perfect casting: Benicio del Toro.
Assuming he can lose the accent, of course.
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If they do an arc with Decker (like they're now doing with Pike), I have the perfect casting: Benicio del Toro.
Assuming he can lose the accent, of course.
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Yep, blue uniform and all
I think Anson will be a big hit, and great breath of fresh air for this show. Hopefully he continues on this series as Captain. It's the right balance the show needs.
I can already see the interactions and conflicts between him and Saru being very Kirk/Spock-like.
I don't think that would work, he needs to give Kirk command of the enterprise when he steps down.
Unless he goes back to commanding the Enterprise later in his career.
Perhaps, but the timeline is already being tweaked here.
Making him the S2 Discovery Captain makes Number One the Captain of the Enterprise for around a year... yet history never recognized her as an Enterprise Captain.
Obviously the STD-verse is gonna change certain things up.
Canon history doesn't mention anything about Pike and crew between 'The Cage' and Season One of TOS other then the accident that put Pike in the chair. Just because it isn't mentioned, doesn't mean it didn't happen.
Plus she'd only be 'Acting Captain', and the ship is being tended by worker bees in the trailer, she's probably off in space dock somewhere after that.
I can fix that easily.
ENT is damagaed and sent out a distress call (last ep of season 1 was distress call which you don't do unless you are in distress). The ship needs repairs so is need to go to spacedock for a bit and maybe starfleet decides to do some upgrades on it at the same time (explain it looking different). Pike takes over discovery to finish the missiosn that damaged ENT. Number one oversees repairs at spacedock and once ENT is fixed/upgraded Pike takes back over.
So Number one is never really enterprise captain for any actual missions but simply acting captain wile in drydock.
One season in real life, but there is no reason to assume that this season will cover an entire year in-universe. Season 1 even noticably strayed from the one season=one year thing, with a multi-month jump beteween episodes 2 and 3 and then again at the end of the mirror arc. Overall the period between its first and final episode is more like a year and a half (roughly, since we don't know exactly how long the middle episodes went into 2257). That being said, when there's no multi-month time jumping the episodes all seem to take place in a remarkably short time frame, so I can totally see next season being just a few months or something like that.
If he's as well received as I believe he will be, I hope they keep him on as the Discovery Captain. It would be great for the series.
Actually.... it is very possible for the Enterprise to be in drydock/refit for the next couple years. This time in canon is unaccounted for.
And Pike's 5 year mission on the Enterprise is over by this time.
Captain Pike could very well stay on as Discovery Captain for some years and then eventually take up command of the refitted Enterprise down the line, before passing it over to Kirk in 2265.
We may even get Spock as a regular officer on the Discovery if CBS really wants the subscriptions for S3.
We don't. The trailer is very likely from the first two or three episodes. That's typically how these trailers are setup. For all we know he's in the first 4 episodes and that's it. They did allude to Michael as the end game Captain in the panel, its just a matter of when it happens. I still believe its going to happen soon rather then later. They're not ending this show with the first black female lead not in the Captain's chair and being able to go on at least few missions. That BS won't be happening. She's getting that seat.
We also still could get the replacement Captain they were going to Vulcan to pick up this season as well. I don't think so in the end. I highly doubt Pike is Captain the entire season. I would believe he's going to play a big part and leave a big impression on Michael, Saru, and the rest of the crew though.We're going to see why he's so famous and admired with Discovery's version of him being THE definitive version going forward.
I can see him showing up in in an episode or two going forward in future seasons though. Or them willing to spin him and the Enterprise off into a one off movie on CBS AA or mini-series though. They'll have the sets, etc. I hope they do that. I want the character to have more adventures but not at the expense of the Discovery crew and characters.
What I could imagine happening though is this mission takes place for however many episodes. Pike sees how well the Discovery crew works well together, especially Michael since she appears to be his second when they're on missions, etc from the trailer. On his recommendation, in addition to her role in stopping the Klingon War, along with whatever encounter they have with section 31 in the back half of the season she gets the seat by the end of the season. Then we go into season 3 with her in command. That matches up with Sisko who also started off as Commander then was promoted to Captain in season 3 of DS9 I think. Honestly he should have been Admiral by the end. I would love it if Discovery went that long for that to be a possibility. Not just for Michael but for all the characters. We end the series with Tilly actually a Captain cause we see her rise through the ranks. Since Discovery has no problem jumping ahead weeks and months at a time between episodes it wouldn't be a stretch for more years to pass by in-universe then in real life. Season 1 covered almost 2 years between episode 1 and 15?
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I think my only problem with Michael being captain, or at least my main one, is that they kept saying before the show started that we would be following someone who wasn't a captain. Now I get that we have done that but it felt like they've run with that premise for a season and are now looking to get rid. They could have said they were doing a Hornblower thing and having us watching someone rise through the ranks but they said that we would be following a non captain for once. Not as in not someone with a captain rank but someone not in command.
Thy also said that the Klingons would have more depth than ever and this would be in the Prime universe. They said all sorts of things that ended up not being true.
Are you suggesting that we should embrace change and that they are trying to do something to make the show better and that is therefore a good thing even if it differs from their original premise. Or are you saying that this is just another lie and problem to chuck on the pile of lies and problems the show is built on?
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