The Doctor (VOY)

[Yistaan]

How?

minor spoilers for Discovery

Spoiler

Book said the Gorn destroyed subspace within a 2 year light radius. While it's possible the Gorn have access to fancy new tech that allows them to do that in the past thousand years, as far as I know from past Trek the only way to destroy subspace that way and that quickly is with an unstable Omega molecule.

 

[DigificWriter]

I'm pretty sure that the events of Living Witness were relegated to an alternate and now non-existent timeline as a result of Voyager making it back home.

 

[Yistaan]

I'm pretty sure that the events of Living Witness were relegated to an alternate and now non-existent timeline as a result of Voyager making it back home.

Huh? I've never seen any indication of that. If anything, the Burn explains why the Federation never reached the planet that copy of the Doctor was on.

 

[fireproof78]

I'm pretty sure that the events of Living Witness were relegated to an alternate and now non-existent timeline as a result of Voyager making it back home.

Yes. I believe Tim Russ was less concerned about whether or not it "happened" and more wanting to make the story within the framing device and challenging the idea of revisionist history. Pretty sure the Doctor's backup was created specifically for that episode too, but I could be misremembering it.

 

[CorKas64]

As much as I enjoy Robert Picardo, recast him. Show over the years he's worn many faces, and every so often his program has to regenerate and selects him a new look. Since all his friends are dead, no one will remember his face, so they'll ask...Doctor Who?

 

[Oddish]

What exactly is the lifespan of a Trill symbiont? According to both Google and Memory Alpha, they're good for about 550 years. But I don't recall any show setting a hard limit.

We know that Dax has had five full lifetimes (Lela, Tobin, Emony, Audrid, Curzon), two reduced lifetimes (Jadzia and Torias), an aborted placement (Joran), a brief time with a symbiont thief (Verad), and is on her 10th body (Ezri). But we don't know what par lifetime host count for a Trill symbiont is. Or, how much time symbionts spend breeding.

 

[Dukhat]

minor spoilers for Discovery

Spoiler

Book said the Gorn destroyed subspace within a 2 year light radius. While it's possible the Gorn have access to fancy new tech that allows them to do that in the past thousand years, as far as I know from past Trek the only way to destroy subspace that way and that quickly is with an unstable Omega molecule.

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That’s a very flimsy connection, though. Unless they specifically mentioned that that’s how the Gorn did it, they can come up with a multitude of other technobabble ways they could have done it.

 

[NCC-73515]

No. Picardo is too old now.

His face is pretty much the same. Maybe dye his hair and that's it

 

[Yistaan]

His face is pretty much the same. Maybe dye his hair and that's it

The thing is, Voyager's Doctor, Odo, B4, or whoever could theoretically be around means absolutely nothing to the Discovery crew. They don't know these people. Meeting them would provide them no more relief than meeting the Federation outpost guy.

Ironically the best bet would be to have a cryogenically frozen Pike frozen by Talosians who learned of Discovery's fate from their telepathy and froze Pike to be able to meet his old friends (and also long enough that a cure would be found for his condition). But I don't think Anson's going to be doing 2 shows (Strange New Worlds and Discovery) at once.

 

[NCC-73515]

They don't have to know him - we do

 

[fireproof78]

The thing is, Voyager's Doctor, Odo, B4, or whoever could theoretically be around means absolutely nothing to the Discovery crew. They don't know these people. Meeting them would provide them no more relief than meeting the Federation outpost guy.

Exactly. It would be a strange crossover that, again, is pure fanservice. I though the jump to the future was to escape some level of fanservice.

 

[NCC-73515]

This fan enjoys being serviced

 

[fireproof78]

It isn't good for the longevity of the franchise.

 

[Court_Vince]

True constantly referencing and bringing back old characters isn't good, but a little fan service here n' there is alright (imo)

 

[fireproof78]

True constantly referencing and bringing back old characters isn't good, but a little fan service here n' there is alright (imo)

WE haven't had a season without it. Let's mix it up a little and leave other characters behind (literally and figuratively).

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

Perhaps the Gorn were investigating Omega as an alternative to dilithium-based power sources?

 

[Court_Vince]

WE haven't had a season without it. Let's mix it up a little and leave other characters behind (literally and figuratively).

That's why I said "here n' there" like maybe doing something fan serviceerey once in a blue moon but Agree to Disagree

 

[fireproof78]

That's why I said "here n' there" like maybe doing something fan serviceerey once in a blue moon but Agree to Disagree

I would agree but we've already had "here and there."

 

[Court_Vince]

That's Fair

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I'm pretty sure that the events of Living Witness were relegated to an alternate and now non-existent timeline as a result of Voyager making it back home.

Living Witness was about historical revisionism over extended lengths of time, not alternate timelines.

The Doctor featured in the future Kyrian museum was a copy of the EMH, with the original still continuing on Voyager.

Not that I think there's much likelihood of that storyline being continued on Disco, however.