will we see thelin?

[ITDUDE]

The USS Discovery was mentioned in TOS. Can't get any more canonical than that.

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DESALLE: Iron-silica body, planet sized, magnitude 1-E. We'll be passing close.
SPOCK: Inconceivable this body has gone unnoted on all our records.
KIRK: And yet, here it is. No time to investigate. Science stations, gather data for computer banks. Uhura, notify the discovery on subspace radio.

Does he mean a ship that has not been discussed in any context earlier, or a discovery of an unknown body? What's more likely?

 

[Lord Garth]

I have to agree with ITDUDE. Maybe he should've said "Uhura, notify them of the discovery" but it sounds, at least to me, like they're referring to what they've just encountered.

 

[Tim Thomason]

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Does he mean a ship that has not been discussed in any context earlier, or a discovery of an unknown body? What's more likely?

It's purposefully ambiguous, just in case they made a prequel spin-off 50 years later featuring a ship named Discovery. The TOS writers were forward-thinking.

 

[Wowbagger]

What year is it? Is TAS considered canon right now or not? It seems to change every year or so.

TAS was canon (I guess) from 1974-1986.

Gene Roddenberry declared it non-canon in 1986, though I don't think anyone knew about that until 1988. (There was a much less developed sense of "canon" back then, with only 79 episodes + movies to deal with). TAS remained indisputably non-canon from 1986 until 2003. This was reinforced by the principal reference work of the time, the Star Trek Encyclopedia.

In 2003, Memory Alpha launched, and it quickly became the most important Star Trek canon resource on the planet, to the point where actual production staff regularly used or even contributed to it. It was (and is) famously stringent about its canon policy, which helped keep the resource clean and usable for everyone. Except for one thing: from the very beginning of its existence, Memory Alpha has considered TAS canon. Why? Because it wants to. That's it. M-A knew TAS was non-canon, but counted it as canon anyway, just 'cause it could.

When you're the most important canon resource on the Internet, that's a big old deal.

From 2003-2006, the canonicity of TAS was increasingly disputed. Public pressure on CBS to canonize TAS mounted... and, with the release of the TAS DVD set, Official Star Trek caved. Star Trek was at its nadir, with no Star Trek on the air and the Abrams movie hadn't been announced yet. Canonizing TAS was about the only thing you could do to generate excitement about Trek in 2006.

There were a couple more years of people questioning whether the StarTrek.com acceptance of it was "reallllly" canonizing it, but that ended by, oh, probably 2008.

TAS has been canon ever since. People have been surprised to find that TAS is canon, and people have been annoyed that TAS is canon (it took me a decade to warm up to it), but CBS has been pretty consistent that it is.

 

[F. King Daniel]

Not unless he was also adopted by Sarek.

[Discovery writers room]