USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

I like the Disco version plus it packs a shit ton of fighters in that hangar

 

Wasn't it mentioned that Number One had stopped at a starbase and picked up those fighters especially for what she thought was coming?

 

Yes she said that but geez there was a lot of them

 

The less we think about them the better.

 

Whatever to make of that?

- The Enterprise seems to have shuttles identical to the Discovery ones, and no others (or at least no others compatible with enhanced phasers, which seem to come in large clip-on modules tailored to the exterior of that model).
- She also is said to have "landing pods", though, although we don't see any such things coming out of her hangar.
- We also don't see any small craft types other than the standard shuttle, the Discovery landing pod, and the tactical flyer.
- #1 "commandeered" the tactical flyers, which were "new" and "experimental".

Might be the flyers were lying around somewhere at SB5. Might be they were stowed away aboard the ship for later experimentation, and #1 just broke the seals. Having 50-100 of those would not consume much space. But having a hundred extra pilots would be a major thing: did she "commandeer" those, too? Or was the ship fighting without a hundred of her vitally needed crewmen? Or did #1 assign tactical flyer duty to Lieutenant McGivers and her ilk?

The best way to go would probably be to assume that the flyers were fully automated. Nothing to the contrary was ever suggested, after all. And they would have been flying on full autopilot anyway, considering the swarm maneuvers they engaged in. But it's sort of silly for the heroes to deploy a swarm of drones and then soil their uniforms at the sight of Control doing the exact same.

Timo Saloniemi

 

I don't want anything to do with a version of Star Trek where a space tardigrade wasn't being chased by a maintenance droid for 15 years unnoticed. It's the most canon Trek of all to me.

 

It's certainly better than the Control shit.

 

Maybe assume animated shorts are like TAS, continuity-wise?

 

Go all the way with it. Show the maintenance droid repeatedly badgering Kirk and Spock about it for 20 years, with the former saying "Stop bothering me robot" (or trying to talk it to death), and the latter staying silent due to his vow not to talk about tardigrades because it's classified or something.

 

TAS is canon now, though, isn't it? That's the line I keep hearing from some fans. That CBS now considers TAS to be part of the canonical Trek timeline even if it's goofy and some things don't line up.

 

This is where Canon vs Continuity comes in big time.

CBS decided to put TAS back into the general Trek Canon when They released it on DVD back in Nov. 2006 and added it to the Official Trek Website.
But They have never officially declared every single bit of it, to be Canon.

So, we have some parts that have been refereed to in the Live Action shows, squarely decided upon and thus added to the continuity, but much of it remains in limbo.

Like the Kazinti, which was talked about being used in Season-5 of ENTERPRISE, but we never got that far due to its cancellation and the Personal Forcefield Belts which are a basic premise of STO, but have never been seen in a live action show.

 

We can ignore what CBS says and go with "whatever was on screen is teh canon" mindset.

TAS was on TV, so it's as canon as the Star Wars X-Mas Special

 

Do they have to? If they say it is canon, I imagine they mean all of it.

 

So, Star Trek?

 

They had forcefield arm-bands in TNG, although they were used to alter people's perception of time rather than survive a vacuum.

 

Also, the TAS belts barely did more: they were fully transparent to all forms of attack, from phasers to fists. All they did was help keep water out or air in - essentially, they were futuristic raincoats. Not unlike the belt we saw in TOS "Squire of Gothos", although our cautious heroes chose to wear a breathing mask in addition to the belt there...

Timo Saloniemi

 

AFAIR,TAS belts were for life support only.

 

Yeah, they generated a force field around their bodies to contain an oxygen atmosphere but other than that didn't seem to do anything.

 

Did they generate Oxygen as well?