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USS Enterprise (eventually) on Discovery?

Star Trek: Final Frontier.

To separate it from TFF there's no article "The" in the title. We have an episode of TNG titled "First Contact" and a movie with the same title and we can manage to tell them apart. We'd be fine if the Pike series had a title that was a take on a previous Trek movie or episode title.
 
Star Trek: Final Frontier.

To separate it from TFF there's no article "The" in the title. We have an episode of TNG titled "First Contact" and a movie with the same title and we can manage to tell them apart. We'd be fine if the Pike series had a title that was a take on a previous Trek movie or episode title.

All they have to do to differentiate it from TFF is to say that it's the one that doesn't suck balls.
 
They should call the Pike show, Star Trek: The Cage. In the final episode, in the final scene, we pull back to reveal a wheelchair-bound, scarred, beeping Pike in a Talosian cage. The entire series an illusion of his younger days.
 
They should call the Pike show, Star Trek: The Cage. In the final episode, in the final scene, we pull back to reveal a wheelchair-bound, scarred, beeping Pike in a Talosian cage. The entire series an illusion of his younger days.
If you think about it Pike could easily use the knowledge he has gained to save himself while keeping the timeline intact, we never see the accident itself or his recovery, it wouldn't be hard to recreate the look of the injuries knowing that his earlier self would glimpse them when handling the crystal.

Then off he toddles off to Vina even though he is not actually crippled at all, not that I am saying they will go that way but they could if they really wanted to.

All he really has to do is continue up to the point where he transfers the Enterprise to Kirk and then Kirk takes him back to Vina.
 
This whole Fate thing probably has to work so that whoever grips a Time Crystal gets zapped with fateful thinking and will do his damnedest to make the prophecy come true. If Pike saw himself stabbing his pet hamster with a kitchen knife, he could get rid of all the kitchen knives or give his hamster to his ex or whatever - but he won't, because he's Fated.

If Star Trek: To Be Determined is one of 'em timeline things, Pike may simply figure out how to clear his head and defy Fate that way, in which case his story will be a different one. But in the current timeline, then in the following decade or so he'll just do nothing to detract from his destiny. Or then he will try everything and fail, and at some point accept his fate anyway.

But Star Trek: Who Cares could also be about Pike before the 2258 adventure. He was an exceptionally decorated hero in 2257 already, after all, and we never saw what would have earned him that distinction.

Personally, I'd prefer Star Trek: Enough Already to completely omit the Pike character and the Mount appearance. More would be less there. But I doubt either Paramount or Mount will be able to resist the temptation unless this whole parallel Trek show business collapses...

Timo Saloniemi
 
As I've said before..I think the closest we'll get to the TOS Enterprise is the infographic we saw in the background when the Enterprise appeared...the straight pylons, etc.

It was seen on screen, so it wasn't just a pre-production thing. Then again it'll probably just go down as an inconsistency like how the E-D fired phasers from the torpedo launcher in TNG...
 
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