Spoilers Who captain?

[Nerys Myk]

I'm not even sure how a labor union would work in the Federation - considering no one gets a salary, and basically everything (including medical care) is provided to people for free. I suppose you could still have shop stewards who deal with things like grievances.

Making sure working conditions aren't deadly, like say a flesh burning monster roaming free in a mine.

 

[SJGardner]

Making sure working conditions aren't deadly, like say a flesh burning monster roaming free in a mine.

Evidently, their unions aren't very effective. We should totally have an episode in which Discovery is forced to run on a skeleton crew because all the Redshirts are on a strike because of their constantly lethal working conditions

 

[The Wormhole]

IIRC, her plan to exterminate the Klingon homeworld had the backing of the Federation Council, it wasn't something she just came up with on her own.

Hell, it isn't even really her plan since it was Sarek who thought it up.

If I not mistakenly remember, the next USS Enterprise captain after Pike is April.

You're mistaken. April was the Enterprise's first captain, before Pike.

I think Pike was always intended as Kirk's predecessor (ie, Pike doesn't leave the Enterprise until Kirk comes aboard).

Indeed, Kirk even said the only time he met Pike was at the changing of command ceremony when Pike turned command of the Enterprise to him.

Wasn't the original thought/fan-rumour that the show would be about Number One from The Cage?

That was speculation based on the fact Captain Georgiou addressed Burnham as "Number One" in the pilot as people evidently forgot Number One is a legitimate form of address for a ship's XO and not just the name of Majel Barrett's character or Riker's nickname.

 

[Tuvix5675]

If the SJW rumors are true then we should expect a female Captain, so Number One is a good guess.

 

[Nerys Myk]

If the SJW rumors

The what?

 

[Greg Cox]

The what?

Just ignore it.

Rule of thumb: whenever somebody starts muttering darkly about "SJW" you should just roll your eyes and move on.

 

[DaveyNY]

Silly Jehovah Witnesses?

 

[CaptainMurdock]

Strawberry Jam Waffles?

 

[Nerys Myk]

Sonequa Jartin Ween

 

[Unimatrix Q]

My favorite choice for the new captain beside the possibility of him being an Andorian would be Robert April. It would give us the opportunity for getting to know the first captain of the Enterprise, about whom we don't know much canonwise beside what we learned in that one TAS episode that introduced him and the fact that he is one of the most highly regarded captains according to Saru's list.

And the reason for him assuming command might be that Discovery is one of the most important ships in the fleet and it is in need of a really good captain after the Lorca disaster.

 

[Spot261]

Matt Jefferies.

 

[Tim Thomason]

April was captain of the Enterprise before Pike. I think Pike was always intended as Kirk's predecessor (ie, Pike doesn't leave the Enterprise until Kirk comes aboard).

Pike is said (by some, not strictly canon) to have served two five-year missions on the Enterprise, which are traditionally dated about 2251 to 2261, with an odd 3-4 year gap on the end before he transfers it to Kirk. Maybe he spent a few years captaining another ship instead?

The only necessity would be to have Spock transfer over with Pike, since they continuously served together for 11+ years.

 

[rahullak]

Maybe there'll be a series of captains who end up being villains and at the end of the 5th or 6th season, Starfleet realizes the only person they can trust to run Discovery is Burnham.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Pike is said (by some, not strictly canon) to have served two five-year missions on the Enterprise, which are traditionally dated about 2251 to 2261, with an odd 3-4 year gap on the end before he transfers it to Kirk. Maybe he spent a few years captaining another ship instead?

There was an idea that conjecture was based on the premise of a roughly three-year gap after Pike's first five-year mission in which the Enterprise underwent her first refit, in which there was a major (mostly internal) upgrade of every system from stem to stern. It was one way of explaining away the minor cosmetic differences in the ship by the time Kirk took over.

 

[Tenacity]

Matt Jefferies.

An easy going captain, likes to be addressed by his nickname of "Tube."

 

[Refuge]

Just pick the biggest mutinous, lying, cheating, fake arsehole available and make them Captain. That seems to the criteria.

 

[Nyotarules]

Lorian Tucker

 

[Spot261]

Eric Pressman

 

[Nerys Myk]

Just pick the biggest mutinous, lying, cheating, fake arsehole available and make them Captain. That seems to the criteria.

Kirk's busy.

 

[Tim Thomason]

An easy going captain, likes to be addressed by his nickname of "Tube."

He also claims to have invented the access tunnel.